Gutentag, Glibertariat! It’s Friday. I hope you’re all enjoying it. Now the depressing state of the world…except the bit about the Commonwealth, it’s emotionally neutral…just like its new leader.
Multistate Outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 Infections Linked to Chopped Romaine Lettuce. I know this is oldish news, but the affected area keeps expanding. You officially have Glib permission to throw a tantrum is someone serves salad…for now.
‘World’s worst’ super-gonorrhoea man cured. *Books flight to Thai red-light district immediately* This is a gentle and slightly drippy reminder that you should wear a condom during your sex tourism and we should probably up our game in the microbial arms race, because staph and gonorrhea certainly have.
No Surprise: Charles to Succeed Queen as Commonwealth Head. Huh, I remember talking about this over drinks with folks from various Commonwealth countries a decade ago and they thought Charles would never lead the Commonwealth because of his intense blandness, so I’m surprised, but whatever.
China has a few animal welfare stories recently: Kangaroo in zoo dies after being pelted by bricks from tourists trying to see it hop and China black market demand for ‘cocaine of the sea’ pushes two marine species closer to extinction in Mexico. The population of vaquita–the cutest cetacean you never knew you needed more of in your life–is down to 12 because the Chinese want totoba swim bladders for beauty reasons. The supply has dwindled and demand is high enough that they can go for over twenty grand, and as such have become valuable purely for their rarity.
In memoriam:
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Deep dish or thin crust salad?
Crustless….
…The horror… the horror…
Deep… with pineapple.
/narrows gaze.
I love pineapple. But salad is another thing in which it does not belong.
Ok, now we are in complete agreement. Finally.
How about gelato?
Why would you put gelato on salad?
Hell, I’d put gelato on damn near anything.
Especially pineapple gelato.
Deep dish pineapple gelato salad.
I love gelato in general.
And I have indeed loved a pineapple-coconut gelato.
Two things we agree on in one day!
I do believe it’s time to celebrate!
*cracks beer*
I was just considering a cocktail, in fact. I’m clearly not getting anything else done today, and it’s SUNNY!
Cheers!
Yes! Beautiful day here, as well. Rumors of 70 in the next few days!
Hasta la vista, Winter!
It’s almost-kinda springlike here today. Sunny, albeit only mid 50’s. Time for a Manhattan whilst I prep the steaks.
And I have indeed loved a pineapple-coconut gelato.
I’m guessing you also like getting caught in the rain
And you´re not into yoga, and you have half a brain?
Depends. Is it a warm, gentle rain?
Kinda like yoga, not sure how much brain I possess.
I would think if you like Piña Colada-flavored gelato, you need to learn the lyrics to Escape (The Piña Colada Song).
Oh, I know the song.
*snickers*
Depends. Is it a warm, gentle rain?
I saw you… and him
Walking in the rain
Known as the “panda of the sea” for the distinctive black circles around its eyes, the porpoise should get humping. Seriously, I found your problem. Stop being the Panda of the Sea and start being the Raccoon of the Sea.
Or the peregrine falcon of the sea. Planet Earth 2 showed them in NYC owning pigeons.
They did that in downtown Minneapolis as well. Had a nest directly above my office windows on the top floor of a bank tower. Fun to see them coming and going. It’s not uncommon here to see a severed pigeon wing on the sidewalk
Those dead birds are from the cruel vicious windows on the Vikings stadium EAP! Don’t forget to tune into Narrative Radio every day so you can keep up with the latest outrages.
Damn your nimble fingers!
Don’t blame Narrative Radio; blame the incompetent Vikings.
I think my favorite was when they sued Wells Fargo because their sign would be seen in TV shots of the stadium.
The Vikes won that lawsuit. .
The city gave the Vikes a shit ton of control over the land around the stadium. Wells Fargo thought that them spending a shit ton of money to help develop the area around the stadium would save their bacon, but they lost in court.
As part of dropping their appeals, they managed to be allowed to have raised signs (but can’t light them up).
It was a veritable plethora of crony corporatism and other crooked favortism that demonstrated that Minneapolis has as sleezy pols as anywhere out east.
Do they fly into the walls of the stadium, too?
Do they also have troubles pro-creating like pandas? I can see how that would happen. After all the babies grow up constantly being reminded that they only have one porpoise in this life and to make it count…
I’m looking for suggestions of places to visit in East Texas in early June. It has to be within a day’s drive of the Texarkana-Dallas line
You want the brisket and beef ribs at Killens.
Never really cared for beef ribs, much prefer pork.
That’s because you haven’t had Ronnie Killen’s. I am in your camp at every other restaurant in the world. But I testify to the awesomeness of his beef ribs.
It’s hard to find good beef ribs because they’re barely profitable.
Agree that you’re wrong.
They’re both good.
^!
Being a days drive from there sounds like a good start.
It could be worse. He could be going to Oklahoma.
Cracker Barrel.
For some reason, I just like saying the words “Cracker Barrel”.
When I say it, I make the “crack” part have a lightning-strike sound to it.
I don’t think I like Cracker Barrel otherwise, though.
Hash Brown Casserole and Country Fried Steak might change your mind.
Ahh East Texas in summer. Have you had gills surgically implanted or will you be wearing scuba gear?
You could always see Old Sparky in Huntsville.
Hrmmm…
Austin.
Anything in particular there? I only have two days empty on the schedule
Odd Duck
Mi Madres
el Meson
Home Slice
Get a Bahn Mi at any Vietnamese place near 183 and N Lamar
Green Pastures and/or Emerald if you’ve got some coin
Bats under Congress Ave Bridge. My number one summer fun in Austin.
Wander around downtown and stop into any bar. You will hear world-class music of many genres. Cheap. Reliable spots: Saxon Pub, Cactus Cafe, the Mohawk.
Great food trucks. Or Kerbey Lane Café for breakfast, although Mi Madres is solid.
Sit on a patio at Trudy’s and have a margarita.
Go to Franklin Barbecue. Prepare to get there early and wait.
Take your picture with Stevie Ray Vaughan’s statue while you stroll around near the Colorado River.
The State Capitol is cool architecturally speaking.
Try to get tickets for a taping of Austin City Limits.
Sadly, you’ll be too late for the O Henry Pun-Off World Championships.
New Orleans?
New Orleans is actually earlier in the road trip, but I didn’t get a whole lot of response when talking about there.
A city is a big place, so I have to ask for more specific suggestions
Ah… New Orleans. For an AMAZING roast beef Po’ Boy with debris gravy and a really cool bar, go to Parasol’s on Constance St. in the Irish Channel. If uptown, go to the Maple Leaf on Oak St., Rebirth Brass Band plays there on Tuesdays. If in the French Quarter, go to Johnny White’s on St. Peter St. or Molly’s On Toulouse for great bars without the touristy chaos or Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop on Bourbon St. and Molly’s On The Market on Decatur St. for touristy chaos that is still fun. For non-drinking fun (why go to NOLA if not for drinking?) definitely visit the Confederate Memorial Hall Civil War Museum on Camp St. and the National D-Day Museum on Magazine St.
Parasol’s over Mothers? I know Mother’s is famous and, thus, suspect, but I thought it excellent (it’s been years since I’ve been to N.O.)
Perhaps too late for you to see but I would never say a bad word about Mother’s, they’re fantastic. Parasol’s gets the nod because I once lived a few blocks away and it was a regular stop. Mother’s is a fine, fine choice. Magazine St. Po’ Boy Shop does wonderful sammitches (shrimp and oyster 1/2 & 1/2, dressed and 2 Dixie beers… I would finish that on the walk back to the house.)
You like museums and such, right? How about the Texas Ranger Museum in Waco?
Excellent suggestion.
The East Texas Oil Museum is in nearby Kilgore.
Mostly paid for by HL Hunt, it’s a surprisingly interesting museum, especially for such a small town. It has the East Texas oil exploration/drilling/production equivalent of the coal mine exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry plus an accurate historical account of the East Texas oil bidness.
Four stars on Trip Advisor. Takes about ninety minutes to visit, and it is only twenty minutes from Longview.
Shreveport (Bossier City) has pretty good casinos if that’s your thing. The Horseshoe’s poker room is best in town. They’re not Indian casinos, so drinks are comp, and they still spread $5 craps.
Thank you, everyone.
No Surprise: Charles to Succeed Queen as Commonwealth Head.
At 69 years old, just in time too. This spring chicken has literally months of solid rule left in him.
Are his ears bigger than his face yet?
Crusader Kings 2 has taught me that old, low-statted mediocrities with no positive traits can be expected to rule between twenty years and WHY WON’T YOU DIE ALREADY?
That game got much harder when it became difficult to just assassinate your unworthy spawn.
Playing as the glorious Republic of Amalfi has taught me that fuck aristocracy, buying the election for the best family member is the way to go.
Wait until he drags out some tart of a mistress and declares her bastard to be his heir, just to stick it to mum.
I don’t understand why the Commonwealth still exists. What’s in it for the former colonies?
If I’m recalling correctly, there’s a certain amount of reciprocity among the commonwealth nations for things like work visas and trade.
Unless you say Mohamad was trans. Then HMG says you can fuck right off back to Canada.
Well, that kangaroo story jump-starts my weekend on an atrocious note. Thanks a lot Jesse!
I don’t know that any Aussie would shed a tear over that story. IIRC they are fairly despised back home.
Yeah, I know they’re considered pests there. Still, I’m not Australian, so…..
Makes me hopping mad!
The vaquita thing has been bumming me out for two weeks now. I went looking for the smallest cetaceans to make a joke about microcetaceans and stumbled over a story from a few years ago about their small population size and efforts to get them back from the brink. Then the totoba story came up yesterday and I was extra bummed.
Now that I’ve read the story, I feel the same way. Just didn’t have the initial gut-punch feeling because I didn’t know what the hell a totoba was.
Male kangaroos have huge balls. Really huge. At least the wild ones I saw in Australia. I felt they should have put on pants or something.
Their scrota get turned into coin purses (in the literal not idiomatic sense) for tourist shops.
That’s weird.
Silly little piece on Any Cuomo trying to be anything but a cishet white man.
*Andy
Though I suppose it could apply to any Cuomo
Chris Cuomo is the dumbest motherfucker around….until you watch his brother speak.
Chris is probably the dumber Cuomo.
Their dad, even though I didn’t much agree with him, is far smarter than either of his sons.
Yes. Not a fan of Mario (who most people don’t remember today based his entire 1977 mayoral campaign on accusing Ed Koch of being gay) but he could at least string some coherent sentences together. Both of his sons are cretins.
Ed Koch may not have been gay, but even so, the guy really knew how to suck a dick.
Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
That was funny. I saw an article the other day about Cuomo claiming to be undocumented. Having grown up with his father as governor, I couldn’t figure out what he was rambling on about. Now it makes sense. I forgot the silly season had started.
GAZE UPON THE T&A AND FEEL SHAME
http://archive.is/2VCUQ
#1 is a split second from showing some beav, 7 seems fun and imagine the possibilities with 12.
7 is indeed a lucky number
72 hits the glib jackpot – hot girl with a gun
Why is #27 never on my flight?
Because that’s a private jet? Look at that arm rest – I don’t even think first class seats are that nice (mebbe Galactic Overlord Class on Emirates, or whatever they call it).
you guys can have the rest, I’ll be in my bunk with #32 and we ain’t coming out so don’t wait up for us
Douglas Adams had something to say about 42
Surprised about avicii I didn’t follow him closely but apparently he had health problems either caused by or agitated by alcohol.
It wasn’t just booze.
Fortunately, I’ve been throwing away lettuce this whole time.
There’s a Swanson for that
I like spinach, but feel like I got cheated when I sauté it. How does a bag full of spinach turn into a tablespoon of spinach?!?
Costco’s spinach salad is actually pretty good.
It comes with bacon, mozzarella, hard boiled egg, dried cranberry, and sesame dressing.
The problem is, it’s a little too good. Have you ever eaten 2lbs of raw spinach in one sitting? It’s…. well, you get the idea.
What is the Costco flat of Smartwater equivalence here?
This was almost the exact opposite.
Damn. Now I want spinach salad for dinner.
It doesn’t seem to affect Popeye.
Does Etta James’ estate get royalties every time she’s sampled? That might even be a sample of a sample (Avicii sampling Flo Rida sampling Etta James).
If she does get them does a recording blare ‘At last’?
Flo Rida/The Cult mashup.
Not bad. I haz a sad that mashupbreakdown.com is no longer functional
Pantomime maleness
News of school shootings perpetrated by young boys and men is an example of yet another way the stereotypical culture of masculinity can be toxic, impacting our communities, leading to decreased health and increased violence, said a local parent educator.
“Boys are having a hard time and they are often involved in things that are destructive to themselves and others,” said Jai Anderson, parent educator at Bozeman nonprofit Thrive.
It’s with that idea in mind that Anderson helped organize a two-night workshop called Raising Resilient Boys, a collaboration between Thrive and Bozeman Health.
“It’s a starting point,” Anderson said.
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“By working with parents and caretakers of boys, the hope is that meaningful, tangible skills can be shared and developed, and as a result, youth behavior and the subsequent health outcomes will be altered for the better,” Coburn said.
During the first night of the workshop, Coburn will be presenting data about the impact of masculinity on national, state and local levels as well as showing clips from the documentary “The Mask You Live In.”
It’s probably just me goose-stepping my toxic maleness through the streets, but I cannot help thinking this idiotic blathering has the exact opposite effect of making boys more emotionally stable.
So they won’t be introduced to healthy outlets like playing sports, learning to fix cars, and building things in wood shop?
They must be kept away from every possible vector of masculine toxicity. You must be especially careful to avoid organizations that package toxicity in lethal doses like the boy scouts and youth football.
Trying to force them to go against their actual nature sounds like a brilliant idea.
How is this different from those camps where they try to force people to stop being gay?
Well for one, in California they are trying to make it illegal to gay convert, but male shaming is becoming mandatory.
No No! when you drag the serfs left into the lava pool it is helping people. Dragging them right into the magma pond is destroying them. Leaving them the hell alone is basically just rape.
You know, maybe the best solution is a healthy outlet for their Masculinity. Teach them the limits of what is acceptable and give them good paths to be men.
OR…you can demonize them and tell them they’re evil and that everything they naturally feel is wrong and to repress their nature. That seems like a better idea.
My father is convinced that the anti-bullying campaigns are leading to all the school shootings. His theory is that school yard fights and some bullying provide gradual outlets to all the aggressive tendencies that boys have. It also deprives boys of chances to overcome the same pitfalls and find out what their limits are.
Instead some kids build up all this shit and finally explode because they feel slighted and have no way of releasing the pent up frustration and rage.
Not sure I agree, but it doesn’t sound crazy either.
I think it absolutely contributes. Standing up to bullies is a skill that serves a kid forever. It’s not like fuckhead bullies all grow out of it.
Teaching impotence is stupid.
Teaching impotence is stupid.
Something else on which we can finally agree! 😉
It should be hard one through experience?
If it is a hard one you haven’t learned impotence
Bugger all. I’m not even going to autofaerie it. WON.
*slinks away in shame*
Yup. You got shafted Jesse. But don’t be a sore loser and take your balls and go home.
Kina works either way, slinky.
There seemed to be a typo, at least at first glans.
Victimhood is a virtue. That is the single worst things that Progressives have made happen.
I wouldn’t go that far, but it’s a factor. I think it’s as simple as when children are overprotected as the grow up, they flounder when that protection is gone. Having to deal with bullying sucks, but does teach life skills.
Because we all know that men are much better off and more successful when they’re raised by single mothers, away from all of that toxic masculinity.
I used to work with a single mother who was always upset that her boy had so much energy and would never just sit quietly like her daughter. She brought the poor kid to several docs trying to get ADHD medication to calm him down.
I tried telling her that that is what healthy boys do. Fuck the only time my boys walked anywhere was when they were assigned a chore. Then they would trudge all the way out to the garbage and back. Then immediately run off up the stairs to do something.
Fuck I remember the time I got home from work and the middle son was hopping on one leg just because he wanted to know how many times he could hop in a row. His mother was suitably exasperated by the stupidity of the endeavor. It didn’t help he was acting like a little James Brown and dramatically nearly collapsing and getting his brother to bring him some water.
Today that shit could have been monetized on YouTube for a mint. 2 million hits for “Hopping James Brown Kid”.
Verbal castration.
impact of masculinity
Every fucking dangerous job in the world is dominated by men who tend to display high-levels of masculinity. This is done so that people can whine about the toxic impacts of masculinity.
Well, Bozeman hasn’t changed…
Here’s the funny thing, we have plenty of samples of subcultures and situations where masculinity is dismissed or is non-existent. Almost any one of these teen shooters comes from a family where a father isn’t present. Go into just about any bad neighborhood (bad, not just poor). You’ll find they’re virtual matriarchies, where fathers are rare, men play little if any role in community life, and the bulk of the community’s income is controlled by women. You’d think all these scenarios would be just a celebration of empowered femininity where males show deference to women and feminine value are celebrated. Of course, they’re not. When you stamp out the acceptable social expression of manhood, you don’t eliminate manhood. All you do is ensure that that manhood gets expressed in the most feral and generally destructive manner possible.
“China has a few animal welfare stories recently: Kangaroo in zoo dies after being pelted by bricks from tourists trying to see it hop and China black market demand for ‘cocaine of the sea’ pushes two marine species closer to extinction in Mexico. The population of vaquita–the cutest cetacean you never knew you needed more of in your life–is down to 12 because the Chinese want totoba swim bladders for beauty reasons. The supply has dwindled and demand is high enough that they can go for over twenty grand, and as such have become valuable purely for their rarity.”
And this is the country that’s supposed to overtake the United States?
I don’t think so.
We do it too. Case in point, the Tesla.
USA! USA!, bucko.
Say it.
Have people been throwing bricks at Elon?
Why wasn’t I told?
They are adopting our ways. And not the best of our stuff either. Throwing masonry at marsupials? Clearly a cheap imitation of our brick hop culture.
They have more people that live in caves than we have living in Illinois.
In caves. Like Lothar of the Fucking Hill People.
You’re right, though, living in caves does sound a heckuva lot better than living in Illinois.
LOL
We’re actively trying to get out of Illinois, Effingham Gun Sanctuary County notwithstanding.
Escape From Chicago, starring Rob Lowe as OMWC, Felicia Day as SP his long suffering spouse, and featuring Gary Oldman as the evil castellan trying to prevent the escape, Swiss Servator.
I see you’ve met all of us!
Gaming afternoon lynk:
I’ve always felt like videogames need to be more carefully chronicled and preserved for historical purposes, seeing as how they are a major artistic aspect of our culture. One of the start-ups that has contributed to this effort is NoClip — by far the very best gaming documentary channel in the business. Danny O (the boss at NoClip) does a great job diving into the development process for recent hits and telling the stories that most gamers would never have known. My 2 favorites:
DOOM (2016) Documentary
Warframe Documentary – The story of Digital Extremes
If you are a gamer, you should absolutely be watching these documentaries. They will give you a better appreciation of the game development process and just how much these guys struggle to make a good product.
I bought drunkn bar fight for psvr. Man that’s a workout.
Dude that was actually a bar. Your headset is still back home
Now wonder my mouth taste like dirty pennies.
I read that as “dirty penises”. I like my version better. Please use it in the future when telling this story.
I read that as “dirty penises”
HA. I did too but was too polite to say so.
That’ll teach him to try and smash up The Ramrod
Ooohweee. Can do!
I have PSVR too – I’m still looking for a killer app to play on it though. I have Skyrim, which is super cool, but having played the original game so much its tough to find the motivation to play. I have Thumper, which is an awesome trip, but kind of one-note.
I am thinking about Super Hot. Would you recommend drunkn bar fight? I’ve never heard of it.
It’s pretty cheap and fun. If you like shooters “until dawn: blood rush” is awesome. If you like puzzles “Statik” is really fun. If you like to play with friends “keep talking and no one explodes” is a good coop. If you like spy stuff “I expect you to die” is campy but really fun.
Thanks for the suggestions!
So I’m guessing that’s a “no” on the recommendation for drunkn bar fight lol
It’s $12 bucks and fun to beat people. Plus a friend can pick up a dual shock and fight you.
If you liked Skyrim, Try the Witcher series – the POV isn’t first person, but the mythology and story line is amazing.
Oh yeah I beat those games several times. Half way through the books too! Love that game
I am thinking of buying one, but the initial reports of motion sickness from VR have me hesitant. I still remember getting up from a session of Outlaws (lucas arts very early fps) that for some reason always really messed with my balance, and I fear VR might be even worse.
If you get motion sick easily I wouldn’t get one. If not, you can pick games that are less likely to make you sick. I’ve played some games for hours without any trouble and others that give me the sweats in 5 minutes.
If this hasn’t already been linked, I will have lost my faith in all you Glibs…
Man kills daughter who was also his wife after breakup
That was a big story locally because they had lived here – the original arrest for incest came in Henrico County.
Wouldn’t have made headlines if it was Dinwiddie.
heh…..point well taken.
In Louisa, it only makes headlines when a couple ISN’T related.
I expect to see these two in the trending section of pornhub sometime soon. Weird trends on that site recently… not that I click on any of those videos. *looks around nervously*
Well, I feel better now that someone else has mentioned it – WTF is with the majority of the videos now being described as incest-related??? It has been a very recent and very pronounced shift all of a sudden.
I blame Trump, mostly. Libertarians and their ass-sex too.
I haven’t seen anything of the sort.
It must be targeted advertising. Targeted at you.
Same thing people told me when I wondered about the sudden influx of ads for Russian mail-order brides, but I swear, I’ve never looked for anything of the sort!
Did you get my cereal?
“No, but here’s the milk!”
The classic “woman gets caught in a window/has hand stuck in a drain” scenario. We’ve all been there.
“Stuck in a trap I set”
I mean, it’s at the point that the last time I visited, there was something near the banner about being able to filter out the pseudo-incest porn.
(That’s why I just go to the Hentai section, for the real incest porn)
(am I kidding?)
(Yes.)
(or am I?)
(Yes.)
(I like degenerate anime, but not THAT degenerate.)
I read somewhere that they had a ban on “incest” porn until a couple years ago. So it’s not necessarily that there wasn’t a demand for it before, but that the recent trend has just been because they started allowing it.
Good Lord, what a disgusting and sad story.
I’ve never quite understood this. I suppose I could look it up, but…
Isn’t a “marriage” of this sort void ab initio? Does there have to
be some sort of legal proceeding to annul the marriage? ISTM
that the “who was also his wife” is false. The common law certainly
wouldn’t recognize it, and is an illegally obtained marriage license
still valid? So, in what sense is the daughter his wife?
Well legally you are likely correct but we’uns is libertarians and we think you are married to whomever or whatever you can get to agree that you are married. I am planning to marry some scotch in a few minutes.
Well, there’s the legal capacity to agree. That’s why I try to stick to scotch
that’s at least 18 years old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYlJH81dSiw
Not exactly by his bootstraps, but in the absence of time travel, it’ll have to do.
Been a while since I’ve heard that one.
SEA SMITH better think twice before tangling with this guy:
Knife-wielding monk seal pup spotted on Hawaii beach
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/04/20/knife-wielding-monk-seal-pup-spotted-on-hawaii-beach.html
Kids today.
Off to defend the totoaba.
Refugee from London after the Mayor’s knifey ban.
Has this made the rounds yet?
Exploding ants: Scientist survey fiery species in Southeast Asia
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Scientists have known about the suicide bombers of the ant world for some time, but had yet to fully investigate the group’s diversity. Until recently, scientists referred to the group as “exploding ants.”
…
Like its relatives, the new species, appropriately named Colobopsis explodens, can rupture its body cavity, triggering the release of a yellow, toxic excretion. Naturally, scientists nicknamed the species “yellow goo.”
Only worker ants explode. The self-sacrifice is a defense mechanism used to scare away or harm approaching enemies.
“[The ants are] particularly prone to self-sacrifice when threatened by enemy arthropods, as well as intruding researchers,” researchers wrote in their paper.
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The fact that these are yellow suicide bombers from Asia is just going to perpetuate the stereotype…
Is that really the reason, though?
UCS is really Prince Charles?
We call that extra mild in Minnesoda.
TFW you’re done working on Friday, and you also suddenly realized it is, in fact, Friday.
I’ve stayed late at work everyday this week. Unfortunately I don’t think today is going to be any different. *sigh*
For the last time, posting on Glibs past 8PM is not considered “staying late at work,” FM.
I take the Japanese view of “work life”
I have been at work nineteen days in a row. I really hope that streak breaks tomorrow.
Today felt like Saturday to me…. for about 2 hours. And then everything went wrong.
I’m back on track for food and beer now.
Euphemism?
Euphemism
I’ll never tell.
Middle-out? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkvcvef8voo
Better than a fight between sweat and bris.
bias? what bias?
The New York Times’ lead 2016 Clinton campaign reporter admits crying after Trump’s victory
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/04/20/new-york-times-lead-2016-clinton-campaign-reporter-admits-crying-after-trumps-victory.html
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In her role as the paper’s top reporter for the Clinton campaign, Chozick was presumably responsible for covering the the election from a nonpartisan standpoint. The Washington Post published a review from Chozick’s upcoming book, “Chasing Hillary,” which includes the tidbit that she “finally cried” in her cubicle the morning after the election to write the “how she lost” story.
“The day after the 2016 election, Chozick sat in her cubicle and wrote the ‘how she lost’ story. ‘Then I finally cried,’ she writes,” Washington Post book critic Carlos Lozada noted.
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However, Chozick also admits in the book that back in 2008 a colleague had to intervene when she briefly applauded Clinton’s entrance at an event, according to The Post.
“The first time Chozick, as a young reporter covering the 2008 campaign for The Wall Street Journal, attended a Hillary Clinton town hall, she briefly stood up and started clapping when the candidate walked in,” Lozada wrote before quoting Chozick’s story of a colleague asking, “What the hell are you doing?”
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“Don’t get caught!”
“Wait until you get somewhere private and then rub one out!”
I spent the entire day after the election humming Happy Days are Here Again and watching videos of those tears. Sweet Sweet Tears.
I was pretty giggly that day too, although I don’t know which was funnier – her losing and not having the guts to get on stage and give a speech, or the words President Donald J. Trump.
I feel like this horseshit at Duke has been broached before, but I want to mention it again because of this absurd whining on the part of the student protest leader:
How DARE you hold us accountable for our actions! HOW DARE YOU, SIR!
Directly pissing off the alumni who provide sweet, sweet donations is a definite no-no.
In a rare moment of honesty,
“they will be exacerbating any pre-existing mental health conditions”.
https://twitter.com/kcjohnson9/status/987380191126347777
16 of the professors who signed onto demanding that the students involved not be punished are also part of the “Group of 88” that demanded the Duke lacrosse players be disciplined without evidence.
88 huh? Heil Hitler.
Also, Vincent Price is still alive, and is President of Duke University? Who knew?
(dammit, I hit reply before I could replace “Duke University” with the school’s true name, which is Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey at Durham
Just when some people thought that calling such students “snowflakes” was a gross exaggeration, they completely confirm that it’s not.
I don’t think I saw a single “to be sure” or and equivalent. I Robby getting better?
Comments apparently not getting better, though — although there does appear to be some resentment there:
Tom Bombadil|2018/04/20 08:54:18|#7234214↑~new~
For real. If you want a circle jerk, go to the Glib site.
[jerks furiously]
“pre-existing mental health conditions” So, they admit they’re crazy.
Love the article’s conclusion: “They want to be celebrated as resistance fighters and treated like trauma victims.”
When #RESIST has even lost David Axelrod, you know it’s not going well.
TW: Twitchy
Hey, I saw that vid you posted of Burdon and Otis.
Fuckin’ sweet!
Excellent! I was actually going to post it again in case you had missed it before I sign off till later. I’m a big Burdon/Animals fan and I stumbled across that one accidentally one time, and it was AMAZING.
I haven’t listened to him for awhile, but I’ve been bingeing on War’s first two since that thread. You are right, he’s a unique talent.
Cool.
CRH tests Japanese MRE!
Shouldn’t those be “Meals Leady to Eat”?
Lacist!
Also. This seems safe.
Always remember to lean your heating MRE on a rock or something.
Still cracks me up after all these years.
Taking one of those heaters and sealing it in a two liter soda bottle was epic.
I actually saw one leave a significant crater in the desert.
Then the Army put out safety messages and article 15s.
Rice. What a surprise!
And here, folks, is how you fight back against the insanity on America’s campuses.
https://nypost.com/2018/04/20/bush-bashing-professor-has-fresno-state-scrambling-to-keep-its-donors/
Kick them in the wallet.
PS: That woman belongs in a SugarFree story.
That may be the ugliest person I have ever seen
Yet, that is exactly what tenure is supposed to protect you from (e.g., Ross and Stanford University). If Jabba the Hutt teaches her classes well and treats students fairly, then content of her extramural speech should count for diddly-squat.
*if*
A question completely unrelated to her social media diarrhea.
How about posting the campus crisis number as her own which flooded them with calls? That seems like something that should be disciplined to some degree.
Oh, definitely. That’s where she overegged the pudding.
As unhappy as it makes me I have to agree with you here.
Why? If you embarrass the organization and jeopardize a healthy chunk of business, you should get bounced.
Maybe not fair, but it’s the way the rest of the world works.
Say you discover how to make a clean-burning internal combustion engine in your lab on campus, but a major donor is Elon Musk. Musk, who interprets this as a threat to Tesla, says, get that fucker out of there or you don’t get your new student center built. Should the professor get bounced out on his ass?
HM, I agree with you philosophically. The issue I have is that at this point the left, in fact the extreme left, has a stranglehold on most of academe and has used it to promote evil policies, exclude more conservative, libertarian, and incidentally classically liberal (the philosophy that is largely responsible for the very intellectual value that academic freedom represents) voices. Ethically two wrongs do not make a right, but if academic freedom is to mean anything it must be impartially applied. Academic freedom for leftists coupled with shaming, firing, denial of tenure, driving from the public square of those on the right is not academic freedom. It is the establishment of a doctrinaire orthodoxy that will in the end spell the death of all scholarship.
No doubt, and I’m not arguing otherwise. But let’s flip the script, for the sake of argument. Let’s now say this brilliant mechanical engineering professor is part of the faculty of Loyola. In his spare time, he maintains a blog about freethought and atheism. On this blog, he wrote some, let’s say, ‘uncivil’ things about Jesus. Should the Jesuits be able to bounce him on his ass? Or do his thoughts on religion have nothing to do with his professional fitness as a ME prof.?
I realize it s not germane to the point you are actually making, which I do agree with, but bad example here as I would say an explicitly religious institution would be within its rights to fire him for the ‘uncivil’ comments, although perhaps not for the freethinking atheism. It seems like a direct attack on the underlying institution.
Oh, I totally agree with you, but as a professional, you have to recognize the impact of everything you put out there. I’m pretty sure that my viewpoints could definitely cost me business, which is why I’m vanilla as hell publicly. Is that a good thing? Probably not, but it’s reality.
I think it is a good thing, actually. I was raised that it was just common courtesy to not wear things like your politics or your religious views on your sleeve at the workplace. It makes sense in the public sphere of a diverse community that you want to focus on commonalities and not differences. There has been a generational shift in that everyone wants to be that special snowflake and broadcast their differences to everyone in earshot.
There has been a generational shift in that everyone wants to be that special snowflake and broadcast their differences to everyone in earshot.
I’m not even sure it’s generational. I called a rep of ours – older than me – to tell him that he should probably tone down the political shit on his FB. I didn’t threaten, but I reminded him that all kinds of different people buy our stuff.
So far, he’s chilled out.
I completely agree. I don’t think she should be terminated; but it’s within the rights of the donors to choose to spend their money elsewhere. And perhaps Fresno State will be a bit more circumspect when choosing whom to hire in the future.
I have to side with HM here. This boycott and counter boycott, fire anyone who offends people, culture is not healthy. We really need to stop pushing for people to lose their livelihood for non-work activities, especially when those activities are political speech. I think boycotts are more acceptable when the company itself initiates the link between its products and an ideology, but despise them when it is targeted at a company because some employee or officer has expressed an opinion outside the business.
I will make one counter argument in this case. I think it is perfectly justified for consumers/donors to withhold their business or donations when the product is itself ideological in nature and the speech indicates that the ideology is one the consumer/donor does not approve. So I honestly think the philosophical argument for protecting an employee’s job in these cases is actually weaker for a professor than for others.
I ripped this from the AM links at Reason. I’m sorry, I forgot he wrote it:
“Out in the real world, you say something stupid on social media and you can get fired. And no one will be collecting legal defense fees for you if it happens. But on college campuses it can’t happens ‘cuz free speech.
I’m all for FIRE and what they stand for. But they’re wrong on this. This isn’t about free speech, or it would apply to every single employee in the nation, and not just college professors. This is about freedom of association, and the professor’s employer no longer wants to be associate with her. It’s not academic freedom because her actions were not related to her academics. Her actions embarrassed her employer in her employer’s community. Moreover the parents of the her potential students are complaining to her employer.
I know someone who was fired from his teaching job for what he posted on Facebook. Moreover, he was permanently blackballed from ever teaching in that county again. He got drunk, ranted, and embarrassed his employer. He’s a good friend of mine, but he fucked up and had to pay the price. The county did not want someone like that teaching in their schools. The analogy to Jarrar is exact.”
I thought it was an interesting point but I’m listening to hear a counter-point.
Maybe colleges have it right and the “real world” is wrong in this case. As long as your opinions don’t effect your work, it shouldn’t led to a loss in livelihood. Is that likely to happen, no companies are very protective of their brands. But I don’t think that is an ideal position and HM is right, if we’re just going to call for the blood of everyone who expresses a controversial opinion, society is going to break down very quickly.
I agree and have no idea why she shouldn’t be fired. She linked her offensive speech made to inflame people to her employer… this wasn’t as a personal rant unrelated to her job.
If I said some vulgar shit on social media and then included my employer in it, they would justifiably fire me on the spot. How could anyone expect an employer to keep an employee that intentionally alienates their customers?
*Tenure should protect professors from saying offensive topics in class or during research in line with their discipline. Offensive speech in the pursuit of learning could be considered part of their job description. I don’t see that being the same as ranting on social media using your tenure as a shield from free-market consequences.
I should add, when I say I have no idea why she wouldn’t be fired, I mean that soley because of the effect her speech caused to her employer, not because of the speech itself. She is causing donor money to be withheld and may cause a drop in the quality of their enrollment. Impact like that to a business by an employee would be instant firing in any sane company subject to free market forces.
The counter-point is that the OP is ignorant of how and why academic freedom and tenure works. It’s not “‘cuz free speech”, but it’s not a freedom of association issue either because of these protections stem from the collective bargaining organizations like the AAUP negotiate in faculty master agreements. If an institution doesn’t want to play ball with the AAUP they don’t have to put tenure and/or retrenchment clauses in their contracts. For example, I don’t have tenure because no one in my institution has tenure. If I didn’t like that, I could find an institution that was an AAUP shop, and vice versa.
Now you might be wondering why a university’s administration would even offer tenure and academic freedom clauses in their contracts, but that’s because the presences of such clauses in faculty contracts is a standard used for accreditation by the Association of American Colleges and Universities.
Thanks.
I don’t think she should be fired for her comments about the late Barbara Bush, I think she should be fired because she gave out a phone number for people to call to complain and that number was actually the school mental health crisis number.
So people who actually needed help might not have gotten help.
“Jarrar, a tenured professor, boasted on social media that because she has tenure, she won’t be fired from her job. She’s currently on leave this semester and was reportedly traveling overseas.”
Jesus. And a coward too?
I thought it was Sugar-Free.
From the article: “Lars Maischak, a history lecturer, wrote an article for the Bee claiming the university is siding with attackers of Jarrar rather than standing up to the “fascist threat to academic freedom.”
Except, she didn’t say it in the spirit of academic spirit. Anyone can she, it was just mean-spirited partisanship for its own sake.
She’s hiding behind ‘academic freedom’.
She called a dead person who can’t defend herself a racist. How is that remotely academic?
How is that remotely academic?
Because, shut up.
That said, what HM said above is correct.
That goes without saying. Besides, he’s too good at finding weird stuff on the Internet. So who am I to challenge him?
Afraid he’ll find something on you?
Yes.
Muppets are into real shit.
real shit
Oh, I already know all about you.
Bert and Ernie, longtime companions.
If Caravaggio or Raphael were alive today they’d choose to paint Grover in the rain.
what HM said above is correct.
I’ve found that to be the truth, muddled somewhat if URLs are involved.
So this sanctuary story made me happy, even though obviously symbolic.
Like most places, once you get outside the cities, Illinois isn’t as bad as people make it sound.
I figured this would happen when the “sanctuary city” stuff was going on with illegal immigration; places would start declaring themselves sanctuaries for all kinds of stuff. Frankly, the FedGov (and most state govs) are so dysfunctional that they won’t be able to do anything about it.
That would never happen! You’d have whole states not enforcing federal drug law! That would be anarchy!
*lights a legally purchased joint*
GAH! You Coloradans!
Did I mentioned I already booked my lodging at Copper for next year? I’ll be in Copper One, between the two main lifts.
You’ll never catch me, Copper!
I live in a sanctuary city (illegal immigrant kind). The annual city census asks to provide the nationality of each non-US citizen in the household. In other words, it’s more intrusive than the federal census yes/no question on US citizenship.
Annual city census?
Yep, it looks like this. Not my city, but it has the same format.
Good for those effing people down in Effingham.
Way to effing ham it up, JaimeRoberto!
This was my previous sum total experience of Effingham.
Iowahawk is, as always amazing.
He’s a national treasure.
What kind? Treasure. What kind of treasure, bucko?
Er, comic treasure?
Ok. /goes back to combing hair.
“Maybe we’d better stop before he get’s anymore ideas”
I fucking cried.
10/10
Worth braving Twitchy for that one.
Agreed. But why do articles like that quote a tweet and then show a capture of the tweet and again show the tweet above any response to the tweet. Half that page is the same two or three tweets over and over, Jesus wept.
Welcome to Twitchy!
Ever since they announced they were dropping Camelback, REI has been sending me spam nearly every day for one sale or another. Yesterday they sent a survey that asked about whether I was more likely to shop at a store that shares my “values” and what political party I prefer. Unfortunately there was no place I could tell them to drop the political BS and just sell good outdoor gear. I’m guessing things aren’t going well for them.
WTF is wrong with Camelbak?
Owned by Vista Outdoor.
Manufactured by a company that also makes Sentient Death Machines.
My Camelbak 40oz stainless vacuum insulated water bottle is awesome.
I guess I’m not shopping at REI ever again.
Yes, as long as the values in question are the ones about giving honest measure for my money.
Same thing happened with Mountain Equipment Coop here in Canuckistan. I terminated my membership. Got a cheque for my share, a healthy 225% return (over 20 years).
There’s not enough granola hippies with money to keep REI profitable.
WTF is wrong with Camelbak?
They are owned by Vista Outdoors, which also own such evil scary genocidal product brands as CCI and Federal Ammunition.
They outdoor hippies suddenly got religion, and and dumped anything from Vista.
So Vista is now on my list of preferred vendors.
I love my camelbak equipment. I may get more just to spite these assholes.
I use a Camelbak backpack with the bladder removed when I ski. I fricken LOVE it.
I’ll buy a couple more in different colors now….
Companies on my no longer a customer/no-buy list:
REI
Columbia
Patagonia
Progressive
Kellogg’s
SCOTTeVEST (this one hurt)
Penzey’s
Expedia
Stone
Smithfield Foods (all brands)
Bank of America
New York Times
Ben and Jerry’s
BMW
Oh, no, not Penzey’s.
Damnit.
Stone as Stone Brewing? What’d they do? And BMW?
Stone? Incessant virtue signaling.
Christ, what assholes.
BMW “blacklisted” Breitbart, so I had to rent a Volvo on my last trip to Germany.
How does a car company blacklist a media outlet?
Noooooooo! Not Columbia! What did they do???
Fuckin-a. I can’t keep up.
Columbia’s CEO has been non-stop TDS, internal memo BS since the election – they were an early entrant into the “let’s make everything political” movement.
Well, my ski onesie is from Tipsy Elves, and my pants are Obermeyer, so only the jacket is Columbia. But they make amazing products for a great price.
I just hope North Face stays the hell out of it.
I’d be pissed if carhart got into it. I have my doubts they would though.
I hear you – my husband lives in their shirts and jackets.
Plus they let that sociopath uggo with the mattress ruin that nice German boy’s life!
Shit. Columbia?
I like their stuff.
?
I’d add Dicks to that list.
Kibble and MLW will proudly be joining you in that boycott.
(Yeah, I know, they’re bi. Look, just pretend, alright? With my talent level, I can’t be choosy about my setups.)
Where’s Citibank?
I for one was all set to ride one of their 30-pound, stupid-looking pay bikes around Manhattan, but no more!
Add Kroger as well
Kroger’s like FedEx: they work both sides of the street and do so quietly; least of my problems.
Kroger also refuses to put up the gun-ban signs at their stores, so, for those who love proggy tears, there’s something you can stroke to.
FedEx’s triangulation was a lesson for the business-school textbook ages. (Or so I figure; I didn’t go to no fucking biz school!)
Greetings from Memphis….and I went to b school: handy stuff.
My read is that FedEx is no different from any of the other unprincipled hacks: they’ll fellate the truck-driving masses and their clinically narcissistic president ala Speaker Ryan, proving they’re all unprincipled whores, until, at some later date, we’ll all laugh about back when was just normal and everyone will forgive each other for having been a “man of a certain era”……won’t hurt ones resume atall.
Thanks for the analysis! And thanks for taking my biz school bit in proper good humor!
Pie, WHAT DID YOU DO?
My father is convinced that the anti-bullying campaigns are leading to all the school shootings. His theory is that school yard fights and some bullying provide gradual outlets to all the aggressive tendencies that boys have. It also deprives boys of chances to overcome the same pitfalls and find out what their limits are.
Instead some kids build up all this shit and finally explode because they feel slighted and have no way of releasing the pent up frustration and rage.
I was talking to a woman friend who has two teenage boys, and that’s pretty close to what she says. If you don’t let them work shit out on their own, they’ll never learn how, and eventually, you’ll get one who flips his lid.
This is a good theory. Add to that all of the anti-depressant and attention deficit drugs they fill school kids full of these days. When I was growing up, this school shooting shit was unheard of, but boys fought and engaged in all sorts of rough and dangerous activity, we were expected to, and I didn’t know any 15 year olds on anti-depressant meds. It’s a war on boys and a war on masculinity. And it’s dangerous in more than one way. What happens when there’s no longer anyone masculine enough to defend a society from danger? The world has not suddenly become a safe space with no danger. We’re heading towards committing suicide.
“What happens when there’s no longer anyone masculine enough to defend a society from danger? ”
That is exactly the point of all progressive causes.
“The demoralized person cannot draw a sensible conclusion no matter how much information you give them, so they can no longer defend themselves, their families or their country.” – Yuri Bezmenov <—paraphrased from memory
Look at every plank in the lefties platform. They are trying to destroy the competence of individuals and institutions that have made us successful.
According to my kids it’s the girls who do most of the fighting in school these days. Yay girl power!
It may be a contributing factor, but it’s not the whole problem. The Jonesboro, Arkansas shooting happened in the mid nineties. At least where I was at school, there was plenty of fighting and bullying going on at the same time.
I think there’s merit to it. If not the cause, it’s definitely a substantial contributor. We had fights after school maybe once every couple months in high school. There were a couple secluded locations where at least a hundred of us would meet up to watch. The fighters pummeled each other and then shook hands afterwards, grievances forgiven. It’s an important outlet for teenage guys.
WTF? I just got home! Don’t any of you people work?
I spent most of my day on the phone in useless meetings, while watching episodes of “Yes, Minister” instead of paying attention. So, no, not really.
I was in a 4 hour meeting this afternoon, but half of it resulted in a list of ‘films you really need to watch now’. So at least it was somewhat productive.
Not today, reverend.
I’ve been at work all day. still there. don’t any of you leisure?
Attention Philadelphia glibertarians, and any others that will be unfortunate enough to be stuck in the vicinity of my renowned city in the first week of May: we’re having a meet up. Exact date and venue is undecided, though tentatively Friday May 4th somewhere in KoP. If you’re interested, send me an email at gwynapnaud @ gmail along with your time and place suggestions if you have any.
References for my non murderous character available upon request from Time Loose; we met and no one was hurt, though we did kill several craft brews that night.
Uffda. I know we are supposed to be a hive of villainy and scum, but do we really let humanoids from Philly in here? Doesn’t that automatically nullify our Family Friendly status?
Next thing you know we’ll be letting Packer fans in too.
In fairness, I only recently moved to Philly. Before that, I was in Scranton. If we didn’t lose our family friendly rating from a combo of SugarFree and Scranton, Philly can’t be a problem, heyna?
Next thing you know we’ll be letting Packer fans in too.
/starting to edge closer to the cat butt camp
Don’t worry, I am only teasing now. I truly feel bad for you because soon A-Rog will leave in frustration and you will be back to the Lindy Infante years.
If we let people from Ohio or Soviet Canuckistan in here, Packers fans are the least of our worries. At least they’re likely to be too drunk to post.
*starts to protest, looks at newly filled rocks glass, pushes keyboard away*
Prosit!
This is the second reference to “rocks glass” I have seen in literally the last 30 seconds.
Weird, since I’d never heard the phrase before. I always said “tumbler” or “old fashioned glass”.
Old fashioned glass is acceptable, but in my bartending classes they always said rocks glass. So I still do, *mumble mumble* years later.
We’re in Balmer and the wife and I have yet to spend any time in Philly. I might be interested, unless you’re banning Balmer folk. I mean if you are I could sort of understand that, except that you’re in Philly.
*looks around the room at all of my Ravens paraphernalia*
Nah, I’m cool with Balmer.
I’d be more in to it for a Saturday afternoon. A Friday night doesn’t really work for me.
Should I be concerned there are a pair of Blackhawks circling the area? Which one of you dropped a dime on me?
Well what did you expect? They sure don’t have anywhere to be right now, you know, like the playoffs.
I’m sure they will get tired eventually and go back to their training camp. If you get too annoyed by them, send them Swiss’ way.
What? This is the first time this has happened to you? Ah, I see, you’re a noob around here.
I thought I had filled my low-flying helicopter quota when I was in DC a couple weekends ago, but apparently not.
Mystery solved: our tax dollars at work
Get Kane’s autograph for me.
I am excited for this weekend.
I am excited for this weekend.
Things looking up because of link #2?
You know it!!
https://me.me/i/the-weekend-approaches-im-pumped-same-%F0%9F%91%8C%F0%9F%8F%BB-1059781
Back to Fresno State. They probably should not fire that imbecile who tweeted about Barbara Bush, but if they decide she has made an egregious breach of her terms of employment by causing completely avoidable if not intentionally malicious damage to the school’s reputation, I think that should be an internal matter, not subject to First Amendment whining. If they are going to stand fast against the mob, and claim their undying devotion to free speech and political expression, they had fucking well better tow that lion right across the board. If I were a student there, I’d be on the horn to Richard Spencer and Milo, setting up dates for speaking engagements. And we’ll see how powerful their commitment to free and open dialog really is.
If your actions are plainly in contradiction to your stated educational aims, like “free and open exploration of viewpoints from all political and philosophical realms” only counts if your views are acceptable to us, then fuck you. Die in a fire. Bulldoze those buildings and plant oats and barley.
Fresno State IS the punishment.
To steal a line from Adam Carolla:
Fres-nooooooo!
I CAN DO THE JOB!
I don’t get this, what does it matter if she could do the work? She be woke and all that, isn’t that all that matters? Just imagine, if she could have stolen the ID of a structural engineer, she could be building bridges and everyone could get a free pony
What happens when there’s no longer anyone masculine enough to defend a society from danger? The world has not suddenly become a safe space with no danger. We’re heading towards committing suicide.
Tremble before the wrath of the twattermob! A stern shunning works wonders. I’m sure Genghis Kahn would have been sent back to Outer Mongolia with his tail between his legs if those people had only had access to social media.
Genghis would be welcomed with flowers.
“I hate everything about your entire soft culture. I’m going to kill all of you. After all, our non-Western culture places a high value on killing men and destroying their civilizations.”
The proggies would so dig that.
And he’d be smart enough to *not* mention the raping of the women until after the men were dead.
I think a huge majority of the women would be looking forward to the raping after putting up with their proggie soy boys.
And it isn’t like Pajama Boy is going to pull some modified Hulk Hogan move where he tears off his flannel tops and opens a can of whoop ass on the Golden Horde. So you don’t have to hide your intentions from xim.
Based on Europe, he could mention the raping all he wants.
Rufus: The concept of academic freedom, or freedom of debate, etc., on which the concept of political freedom of speech was actually in concept based, pretty much does say that every scholar in the university community should get to say what he wants. (I can flesh out the details and philosophy later, but no one ever asked me to be more long-winded.)
FIRE views itself as a sort of pressure group promoting these values within academia. Therefore it works in different ways under different circumstances:
In public schools it does act as a specifically political activist group. Public schools being a branch of government, viewpoint discrimination (and abuse of “time, place, and manner” restrictions) are violations of Americans’ Constitutional rights. These are sorely needed.
In private schools things are a bit different. These institutions are, of course, legally and politically entitled to employ and/or educate whomever the hell they want, on whatever the hell terms they want. (Or at least should be.) What FIRE acts as then–and they make this admirably clear–is as follows:
The overwhelming majority of private, four-year, nonprofit universities pay extensive lip service and pontifications to these principles of freedom of scholarship. When they do so, FIRE acts: (1) First and foremost, as a sort of “consumer reporting” (or “employee affairs reporting”) service. There are these prospective students (or faculty) who see this advertising about how paramount academic freedom is to our beloved institution; and FIRE’s reporting tells them: Is it what it says on the tin? FIRE happens to believe strongly in these values, and when an institution talks the talk but does not deliver, it calls them out. Hard. (2) A distant second, academic freedom provisions may be present in contracts and so forth. FIRE provides legal help in these cases, as it does in the public schools, because it is no less a rights violation!
Have you noticed what FIRE says about the deplorable academic freedom conditions at Liberty University, Air Force Academy, Yeshiva, or Tauro? No? That’s because they say nothing. As they have explained, when institutions do not profess to value full academic freedom in the traditional sense, they have nothing to report about them. And they have absolutely no objections to the existence of institutions conducting themselves in this manner.
I have my squabbles with certain details of FIRE’s perspective, but they are small indeed. On all of the above, we can clearly see they are fighting the good fight.
I think all public school should have to respect all the rights of their charges. 1st, 2nd, 4th amendment. All of them. Kids should be able to say whatever they want, associate with or without who ever they want, and be absolutely free to move about as they please. If the constitution was respected, the public schools couldn’t operate. Sounds good to me.
Just because it’s a school, that doesn’t mean the government employees there should be free to violate your rights.
Problem is that the Supreme Court has ruled in long established precedent that minors do not enjoy full Bill of Rights protections.
Bong hitz 4 Jesus!
Sounds like she couldn’t, though.
Bah, Brooks’d it. That was a reply to Hyperion @ #36 above.
She lasted more than 5 years though. And got a raise.
4/20 is 1/5 is 20%
Happy 20% everyone.
I’m going to eat a few boxes of Mac and cheese with chicken tenders while watching trailer park boys and maybe the flyers game.
Penguins-Flyers……pity someone has to win
I really just want the pens to lose.
My Pigs are playing baseball again in about an hour. I’ll be able to get home in time to catch most of the game.
BTW, #3 in the country and leading the SEC west. woo pig soooie.
FIRE views itself as a sort of pressure group promoting these values within academia.
FIRE is at least being intellectually consistent. I applaud them for that.
911 operator doesn’t like talking to people.
http://abc6onyourside.com/news/nation-world/houston-911-operator-found-guilty-of-hanging-up-on-callers-04-20-2018
I’m a people person!
God, I miss In Living Color. They’d have a fucking field day with this shit.
Crazy! A couple hours ago I was thinking it would be fun to have an Oswald Bates translator. The Oswald Bates Proctologizer.
I’m sure I’ll be reminded, “Naw, man, that was my favorite” the next time a recurring skit comes up, but for now, yeah, my recollection was Oswald was my absolute favorite. Just rolling around gasping for breath every time he came on. And I have basically had that same thought as you on a regular basis ever since I saw the first one. And now, damn near every time I check out what’s in the news.
Don’t know if our resident Jew Negro has completed the trifecta of world hatred by being a Duke man, but if so I hope he didn’t plan on getting his ‘fro trimmed during alumni weekend. For you see, there are no “haircut options for people of color” at the University Barbershop there. Plenty of haircut options for Chad and Biff, but hard as it to believe, not a single black barber in the whole place.
Oh, did you think by “black barbers” I meant “barbers skilled and experienced at cutting black hair, barbers who received their training at a black barbershop”? Fuck no; they have those. I meant barbers who are themselves of the black race; what the fuck do you think this is?
In its early stages now–but note it has been emailed by the student senate president to the entire student body. And you heard it here first, folks.
(By the way, even whitey should go to black barbershops. Not even Asians should go to Asian ones, unless you are that broke.)
Really worth clicking through – the manager has worked there for 58 YEARS! i.e., 1960 until now.
Morons.
It is pretty cool how this guy is giving no fucks about standing up for himself. I don’t trust motherfuckers who make not being racist out like it’s rocket science.
I used to live in Oakland and when I first moved there I went looking for a place to cut my hair. I walked into a shop near downtown and every black face in their turned around and stared in silence at me when I walked through the door. I asked if I could get a cut and everyone burst out laughing. “Guess I’ll go somewhere else then.”
Dammit. “there”
Lies! Only whitey is racist.
Seriously, I’m now curious; would I have a problem getting my semi-standard clipper cut at a “black” barbershop? “#2 on the back and sides, trim it up on top”
No! They’d be great at it! That’s like walking into a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon’s office and getting a webbed toe clipped.
I guess as a solidly brown-looking dude I can’t tell you what it’s like to go through life as a white man (assuming that’s what you are), but it would be downright weird, at least around here, for any black barber to be shocked that a white guy wanted a cut from a black barber.
You asked for your cut; they laughed. You should have just stood there and waited for your answer. Damn good chance everything would have gone smoothly from there! Not saying it’s in any way out of the question that they were just dicks, but…barbershops are a bit of a “community space.” You were an outsider, and a white one at that, so you got some noob grief over it before you entered. Brush it off next time and see what happens!
I didn’t get the vibe that it was friendly laughing or ribbing. I lived for three years in one of the blackest cities outside of Africa (Salvador, Brazil) and so have a decent idea of what it means to be an outsider. I later got my hair cut in a black barbershop in Oakland (although that was mixed really cause there were some Hispanic guys there too). FWIW I was also refused service at a black bar in the same city and was with a (pretty tan, native looking) Brazilian girl. No big deal really. Plenty of bars and barbershops in this world.
Fair enough. Of course I wasn’t there. Just hearing it as initially described and not knowing you from Adam, I’d give the above advice. But like I said, some people are just dicks. There are some who say black dicks are the biggest dicks of all, but others say that’s just a myth.
I walked into a fade shop, not knowing what a fade is. I just needed my shaggy head trimmed down to something manageable. I got nearly the same reaction, especially from the barber, who couldn’t make out wtf I’d come in for. So I went from ~6″ length to something resembling this, but blonde.
I didn’t know anyone didn’t know what a fade is! It’s not like it’s a black term or anything. It’s used in the regulations for every branch, for example, as far as I know.
Anyway you can put a fade behind a shaggy cut and it looks clean as fuck. IMO every shaggy cut should have it. Any black barber worth his salt should have plenty of experience with shaggy. Barbers have to be on point more than ever nowadays, I think, because we’ve come to a point where damn near every wacky style is out there, taking from all past eras and new shit altogether, whereas in the past only a narrow range of eccentricities were in style at any one time.
Not even Asians should go to Asian ones
Everyone gets the same cut. They use a soup bowl and a pair of trimmers.
Is this really a thing? why is this a thing? Jebus. It looks like people just stirring the shit to me. Shit flinging monkeys. It never occurs to the monkeys that they get their hands covered in shit. Like my grand daddy was fond of saying “You cant stir the shit without getting it on you.”
Duke? No. I went to a large state flagship university mainly known for a pretty decent B-school, oceanography, and binge drinking.
What? Little Korean women or Filipino guys are great at cutting hair. They run all the franchises on military bases – either in the PX or in the ones just off post. The gals in Seoul would give great massages too – since you weren’t allowed to go to any barbershop off post.
Ha, no way. I swear this was totally unplanned. I got exactly 4.20 billable hours today. *tee hee*
You’re not doing it right if you’re getting fewer than 24 billable hours a day.
“No Surprise: Charles to Succeed Queen as Commonwealth Head. ”
So, does this mean that the jug eared inbred one will finally solve global warming, or will fucking his first cousins to produce more ‘royalty’ be a more pressing issue?
Yeah, sure sounds like a nonstarter for leading the Commonwealth. Jeez, Jesse, where are you getting these friends?
That was a very very glib gloss of the conversation. Queen Elizabeth saw England (and the now Commonwealth nations) through WWII and the devolvement of England’s colonial interests in these countries. People respected her and took her leadership of the Commonwealth as *just*. Charles has never led them through crisis or change, and there’s nothing about him that makes him a compelling leader. Their general point was that there’s just nothing there to inspire confidence in him as a leader.
Also “friends” is a strong word for a group of anglophones from around the globe having beer in Budapest.
I thought the jug-eared one already stopped the rise of the seas.
Don’t eat chopped, raw food from a bag. It’s a rule of mine.
The progressives have pretty much destroyed everything Britain used to be, now it’s Charles’ turn to plunge the knife into the monarchy. Buckingham Palace will be a tourist trap within the decade. And on this side of the pond, progressives are doing everything they can to turn us from “citizens” back into “subjects”.
But what do you really think?
I’m sill conflicted, as you can tell.
Charles is very popular with hardcore monarchists, seems. I don’t know if this is because of their (rather deserved) hatred for Di, or what. But I think it’s pretty obvious the Monarchy will face its greatest challenge during his short reign. He’ll be lucky, in my estimation, if a single Commonwealth Realm re-ups the tradition of putting the monarch’s mug on their money. At least one will probably go republic, setting off a domino effect. The only thing standing in that way is the fact that continued monarchy in the remaining Realms has always been more about political stasis, with republicans in the various parties (Jamaica, e.g., has had both parties officially republican for decades and seems no closer; Australia has both leaders and every province premier republican and ditto) unable to agree on constitutional reform and knowing the initial republic would be the best chance to get their way; and about the utter (and if anything, increasing) disdain the public has for republicanism, which they regard as a contemptible grandstanding nothingburger from their contemptible politicians. Australia’s republican generation, for example, are those that remember the 1975 constitutional crisis; they are aging out, and younger people there (as everywhere in ceremonial monarchies) are much, much less interested in republicanism.
Will these phenomena be enough to counteract the succession of Charles? How much of the satisfaction, even affection, for the monarchy is fragile–only a matter of affection for the old lady? Time will tell!
Interestingly enough, in the UK both serious republicans and serious monarchists both loathe Di and have nothing but bafflement and “sheeple” type contempt for the asinine deification of her; whereas she was adored by the far more numerous, casual, more populism-driven crowds “in between”: The (supposedly) beautiful “People’s Princess” charmed both people who just didn’t like the Royals who loved her for fucking them over; and the hoop-earring tracksuited ladies with the patriotic collectible plate sets.
Yeah, they used to be noted for fine auto electrical systems, great cuisine, and excellent dentistry.
Apparently Brits nowadays have pretty decent teeth healthwise; it’s just cosmetically they are still rough because they remain rather strikingly less concerned about it than, say, Americans to take the opposite extreme.
Yeah but they were “BRITAIN!!!”. Even The Prince of Darkness couldn’t keep them down. If Lucas Electrics we’re still around today, the entire country would come to a screeching halt.
Even with mushy peas and bad teeth, they still conquered the world. Until we came along and kicked their ass, of course.
“Yeah, they used to be noted for fine auto electrical systems, great cuisine, and excellent dentistry.”
Goddammit.
*guy who had to order ridiculously expensive 17 volt fuses from Limeyland for a jaguar wipes off computer screen*
but the dash was beautiful and the grille was a work of art as it sat rusting, leaking and refusing to start in your driveway right?
I don’t give a fuck. Old British cars have soul.
Besides, most of the time, it’s just a ground problem…
If I had infinite money I would drive an Aston Martin. The Brits make beautiful machines. The problem is they are much better at beautiful than machine.
You’ve been to my house?
OMWC says, “Every part that falls off is of the finest British workmanship!”
https://binged.it/2HdY4lU
Lucas Electrics: never forget
Lucas did invent the intermittent windshield wiper even if they didn’t mean to.
Not sure if mine even work…
Four hours outside pouring a concrete slab. I know some of y’all want to see spring, but I’m thrilled it’s stayed cool this long.
Somebody told me once that one placed a concrete slab rather than poured it.
Nice. My instructor would chide me endlessly for that. Well, once.
And now that instructor permanently resides in a recently placed concrete slab. Nothing to see here, folks. Nothing at all.
Trump should review movies from the oval office.
Listen. Listen. I am a messy bitch and curiouser and curiouser. Yes, it’s childish. I’ve tried to satiate my puerile need by rewatching “Heaters” and “Mean Girls” for the thousandth times, but it’s not – it’s just not sufficing. It’s not about the catty gossip. It’s about the mystery. There’s a hole inside my .. black body (is that how that’s used?). HELP.
HM, if you have any humanity at all….
I thought your “getting curiouser” link was going to be a bunch of naked chicks.
You wish, Diego
HM, if you have any humanity at all….
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Yeah, I got a kick out of that as well.
Go to reddit.
After that, you’re on you’re own.
You sent someone to reddit and just dropped them there? Really? Have you no decency man?
I think it has already been determined that, no, I don’t.
CNN: North Korean leader: We no longer need nuclear tests, state-run media reports. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw3Np_Knzg
Good news, or bullshit?
CNN + North Korea in one place?
It’s hard to get more bullshit than that!
I will believe it when I see it. It does seem that there might possibly be some progress happening, but with this inscrutable Norks you can never really tell.
Tough call. I dont think anyone has told Porkchop they were going to shoot a missile up his ass before. Maybe he really is rethinking his strategy.
“Multistate Outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 Infections Linked to Chopped Romaine Lettuce. I know this is oldish news, but the affected area keeps expanding.”
Fuck. It also applies to whole heads of romaine. I called the market where I bought it last week, and they say it was recalled, and I should throw it out. But the lettuce they have now is fine. Maybe they are just covering their ass so they don’t get sued?
I ate some already and didn’t get sick. And I’d hate to throw away perfectly good food. What should I do?
Throw it away. It’s not worth it.
Better to throw it out than risk it. Not enough $ at stake to risk E Coli.
True. If you think of it as an accounting question, the answer is obvious.
It’s just annoying because I was just at the market today. And had I known, I would have bought new lettuce.
Chuck it. I’m gonna check the romaine in my crisper now. We ate two heads already, but I don’t want #3 to be the gut destroyer.
Probably safe, but why not throw it the fuck out? Make some cabbage salad instead. It’s just this one time. The peace of mind alone is probably worth the money.
Stick it in crazy!
That prechopped romaine lettuce has already been linked to multistate outbreaks of lazy as all fuck. This latest news is nearly as alarming.
Get yer fancy schmancy romaine lettuce out my face! Iceberg or gtfo you commie homos. Im murican
Wedge salad FTW!
which is the only green part of a meal consisting of bloody red rare meat and potatoes
The “wedge” in a wedge salad is merely a conveyance for bacon and bleu cheese.
It cuts the blue cheese sharpness a bit
Radicchio or GTFO!
*RED NECK CARD REVOKED
Lol. The only reason I know what it is is because I saw it at the grocery this week and asked my wife what it was.
I joke trying to look pretentious but honestly I find all the fancy greens bitter and unpalatable.
Are the missiles flying yet?
We’re bombing Yuma, AZ?
It’s one way to sterilize things.
Clammy sweat, sore AF throat and all over body aches. Went to bed at 7pm last night and got up at 8am this morning. Absolutely have to go in to work for at least a couple hours today. Wish me luck.
Why did you eat the lettuce tho
Did you eat lomaine rettuce?
I hope you are feeling better.
Sounds like the lettuce isn’t just bad in the US.
NoKo virological weapon. You’re doomed.
It was in the tree bark I ate?
Is that a Japanese delicacy? Man, they eat everything over there.
Cinnamon.
Underaged squid.
Is lettuce a thing in that land of the Rising Sun? I mean land of really weird tv, scarily weird food, and war crime level weird fetishes
It’s just a cold that is going around. Hung out with a group of literally snot nosed kids yesterday. I’ll slap on a mask and go in today.
God bless you.
Drink lots of water and get home as soon as you can. Feel better!
Thanks SP.
She wrong. Whiskey, and plenty of it. Preferably Yamazaki 12 yo.
Hot Sake toddies for everyone!
That’s just….
Wrong.
By “wrong” you obviously mean “so, so right.”
No; he meant “rong”.
Long Long Man is my favorite netorare series.
They didn’t even need to cheat on the translation. LOL.
Make sure you watch the entire thing.
See, the world can never be all bad as long as Japanese television ads exist. They do support the hypothesis that humanity east of Suez is not the same species, and in fact not from the same planet, as humanity west of Suez, but their very weirdness makes them awesome.
DID. NOT. SEE. IT. COMING. Bitch deserved it.
That was the greatest thing I’ve ever watched in my life.
So what would a Japanese folk remedy consist of for a cold?
I had a cold when I was in China, and scoured all over Beijing for Vick’s, because Chinese cold remedies didn’t work on me.
Not sure there is a cure for Yellow Fever, but these are pretty good.
I can’t drink Sake ever since an unfortunate evening involving Rakı
Tell us more….
The only sure cure for Yellow Fever is finding a chick with comparably good skin and cooking abilities.
The herbal-cigar foot massage and powdered white rhino dick not do the trick for ya?
I have seen a Vaquita in the Sea of Cortez. Yea me! Last time I was down there a couple years back I was marlin fishing with a buddy on board a panga and the captain pointed it out to us and was super stoked about it. It must have been something special for him too as he later tried to run over a huge sea lion munching on a sun fish on the surface as he called it a puta. Going back there in a couple months, I’ll have to ask the captain if he has seen another since.
I saw a whale shark in the Gulf of Mexico once…it’s the best I have.
I know glib fit is on hiatus, but I have to share: I had to get a new credential on my work id. So, I went to security. She pulled up my picture and looked at it, looked at me, looked at the picture, and said, “you’ve lost weight, we need new picture.”
Happy dance!
So happy to hear! Congratulations! (Assuming the “happy dance” was being done by you, and not your tapeworm.)
Congrats. I keep my fat gut pic on my badge as a reminder “NEVER AGAIN”.
I just submit a dick pic for my id.
So..,.all your coworkers can identify you by your penis….niiiicccceee.
My ID is only a head shot.
Mine is shoulders up, but you can tell.
*high five followed by an inappropriate gaze*
I was definitely strutting at the grocery store this evening.
I wore suit and tie to a function last weekend and although I bemoan the weight loss, goddamn I looked sharp!
You go, girl!
Woohoo!
Hell yeah!
Woot!!
Ian @ Forgotten Weapons talks about new platform for independent media, updates on Youtube posture re: gun-stuff, and more
he makes some interesting points about the how’s/whys of independent media-monitization and how the Duopoly of Google/Facebook is gradually killing off anything that might rub the biggest advertisers wrong.
He’s definitely right about that. The internet used to be spread all over. Then as bandwidth and the number of users increased, the ratio of consumers to producers increased, and things became more consolidated and more profitable.
https://www.themaven.net/roamingmillennial
Snoop Dogg
He released a gospel album?
I can’t decide who to hate more inre that vaquito story. I’m gonna hedge my bets and hate everyone, all of the time.
I’m suffering from Comey fatigue.