Let me be self indulgent and say a few words about my mom. She had a rather tough life, growing up poor, having buried three husbands, and raising a family with my dad, a free-thinking, creative, and hyperintelligent fellow who could barely scrape up a living as an artist. In a house of chaos and creative destruction, she was the island of relative sanity and common sense and still managed to turn two kids into reasonably successful adults. Today my mom will spend her day chowing on Publix roast chicken, since we’re too far away to take her to the (((deli))), and in reality, that’s what she’d rather do anyway. She’s not a person who cares about frippery and ceremony, she’s never had even a hint of pretense, and a simple and comfortable life these days is her reward for all she had to put up with. Though she has never understood me, she’s always stood by me. My mom is the greatest.
What’s not the greatest? The news of the day.
We start in Paris, where what was supposed to be a routine Muslim-gone-nuts killing is actually evidence of more Russian collusion. Robert Mueller is investigating. I think he is, anyway.
I don’t know about you, but if volcanic eruptions destroyed my home, I’d take that as a hint to move elsewhere. But some people never learn.
The Adjacent Arabs may have started to think, “This isn’t going so well.” I don’t expect that glimmer of wisdom to actually take hold. I hope I’m wrong, but it’s not a bet I’d take.
The UK shows itself again to be a bastion of freedom. Well, no, not really. But, as usual, it’s for the children.
The cards will cost around £10 and could can also be used to purchase other age restricted products such as alcohol and knives. However, shopkeepers could still ask to see documents, such as a passport or driving licence, before selling the 16-digit online access code. It comes after a recent report showed how a total of 1.4 million children clicked on pornographic websites in a single month – half aged six to 14.
I’m sure you all have already gotten your cards and codes. I’m more interested in the children.
Supply and demand, how does that work?
You’d certainly know, Mikey, you mendacious piece of shit.
The EU is reliable and consistent- if something is successful because it provides something people want, you can always count on them to step in.
“Data is itself valuable, and people give it in exchange for services,” said Alec Burnside, a lawyer at the Dechert law firm in Brussels who has taken part in antitrust complaints against Google. “I think they are wrong in believing that data must have all the characteristics of cash.”
Old Guy Music, of course, has only one possibility today. And check out the guitar work here.
We know that Henry George picked one thing to socialize–land–and was the purest of libertarians on all else.
It would appear that today’s libertarians have made a different choice of commodity:
I’m confused. Does he think libertarians are serious about sex “redistribution”. Cause you got to be two miles thick to not see the rhetorical nature. If it’s ok to redistribute people’s personal property, then why is it not ok to redistribute sex? We’re showing that you are being logically inconsistent. If private property is not sacred, then you can’t use it as an argument to stop forced sex for anyone.
Don’t be confused, anything they can do to misrepresent and slander libertarians is the way things will be taken.
I have a lot of respect for e.g. Jordan Peterson, because he is always pretty careful how he words things, it has got to be exhausting to stay at that level of awareness in the way you use language, but it also promotes effective communication, so maybe in the long term it is less effort.
No. Douthat understood the rather obvious point the original questioner (George Mason economist Robin Hanson) was trying to make. (Douthat is a socon, and used the opportunity to instead promote traditional values.) Even a Slate journo Douthat cites understood that Hanson’s thought experiment was supposed to be a reductio. Only this lady was dumb enough to read that question and conclude that libertarians actually oppose “just distribution” of money and other forms of property, but make an exception for women whom they think should be socialized for public use.
Actually I give it two years max before any given prog’s mind goes there without a second thought. Fuck, I think they already think we’d be up for doing it to blacks.
This is true. Especially because some libertarians have explored/approved of the idea of consensual slavery.
OT but also saw it last night by coincidence. Article pretty interesting in itself, but my favorite was the top comment. Never change, Internet!
Happy mother’s day to Unimaginably Old Woman With Candy! She sounds like both a good mother and a bad mother.
And look at OMWC’s baby picture. I think my dog has smaller ears!
She’s a gem. My favorite comment of hers is from an evening where she joined us for dinner and saw the bottle lineup. “My God! You people are alcoholics!”.
Let’s take a moment this Mother’s Day to stop and think of now cisnormative it is. Why are there no days for non-binary parents? When’s Gender-Fluid Parent Day? Gender-Queer Parent Day? This bigotry can’t stand!
I’m sure Teen Vogue or Everyday feminism.com has you covered.
If you’re stayin’ in San Francisco
Be sure to jizz in Gavin Newsome’s hair
If you’re going to San Francisco
You’re gonna meet some strung out people there
For those who come to San Francisco
Homelessness will be a shoo-in there
In the streets of San Francisco
people with needles in their hair
+1 Summer of Dove
Sometimes the messaging gets away from you.
Happy Mothers’ Day! My mom and I had and have a complicated relationship, but she’s the woman who thought me to think and not only how to read, but why to read. My wife is a kickass mother to baby trshmnstr (they’re on a 4 mile mother’s day run right now!
How did I not see that until now. Bravo.
Taught*
Ha. Nice.
I read it as octothorpe. /Aspedantie
Kinky!
Old-guy music
Thats one of my faves.
Probably hsouldn’t have played it when my mother-in-law was staying with us though…
I figured this would be the Mother’s Day music link
Just for us metalheads.
“Uncomfortable,” perhaps. But if we mount a rifle on it and fill its windshield reservoirs with vape juice, we will have engineered the perfect creature out of Mike Bloomberg’s nightmares.
I’ve said it before, but most new cars look like shampoo bottles tipped on the side. The Prius looks likes it’s wearing a diaper. Give me an old Lincoln Continental any day.
Race cars look the same too. When you overregulate, you kill the incentive to differentiate and innovate.
Are you looking at racecar backwards? Boo, I know.
They’ve done the same to all of the new big trucks, too. Kenworth perfected the on-highway tractor in 1982 with the introduction of the W900B.
Design junkies who ruin everything to justify their continued employment are almost as bad as the government.
When I was a kid I had a 1966 Galaxy 500 two-door hardtop. The engine was shot, so I found a wrecked GT Fairlane and put that 390GT in my ’66. Thing ran like a scalded cat. Great-looking car. Wish I still had it. Wish they still made cars like it.
Same car, 289, dark green, same wish as you
Is if fat enough so we can fly away?
And of course, the real purpose isn’t the aesthetics, but the political/cultural message of the artist. Who cares whether the art is any good?
“we all know why cars aren’t fat. Extra weight on a vehicle is inefficient: it becomes harder to control, more wasteful, and takes up space in an increasingly overcrowded world”
It’s funny because as soon as a fat person is asked to pay for the extra resources they are using : “repression!!”. Socialism/Marxism (a key foundation of SJW’s) is so childish. Find something about you that you don’t like, state that it’s a part of who you are, and then demand that everyone else accommodate you by paying for the resources you need to continue in your life.
UCLA, Fresno State ROTC training accused of perpetuating ‘Islamophobia’
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/44903/
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Early last month, the UCLA and Fresno State Army ROTC detachments held a training in which their “enemy” was garbed in “civilian clothes from Arab countries.”
You can probably guess what followed.
The Daily Bruin reported that “professors and students at UCLA said the clothing is inaccurate and contributes to a misinformed understanding of Muslims and Arabs in the United States.”
History professor James Gelvin noted the clothing “is not worn by any group that the United States is currently in conflict with,” while law prof Khaled Abou El Fadl added “associating Muslims with violence creates a toxic environment for Muslim students and Muslim community members.”
“A lot of (Muslims) that want to practice their faith and assert their religious identity constantly feel under siege and under suspicion, and this definitely doesn’t help,” El Fadl said. “It reaffirms all these Hollywood images of the bloodthirsty, stupid, Muslim terrorist. What is the difference between these images and the Hollywood images that we see? Nothing. It’s very sad.”
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[head desk]
Well, the New York Times really wants to see the Republicans succeed in California. The solution? MOAR SQUISHY “CENTRIST” (AKA leftist) REPUBLICANS LIKE THE GOVERNATOR!
Ah yes, that’s what’ll get people to vote for the Republicans in this state. Show even less of a contrast to the Dems than they already do. Why the hell would I vote for Dem-lite, when I can just vote for the actual thing?
“At least some Republicans in the state, chief among them former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, have been trying to push the G.O.P. to adopt more mainstream ideas and policies”
I hate this kind of writing. What ideas does the GOP have that aren’t mainstream? Which ideas do these people want to change? What are the new ‘mainstream’ ideas that should be adopted?
I guess if you don’t say them, then you don’t have to justify any parts of your claim. Such as the deeper claim that all (or most) of the Republican ideas are not mainstream. Which is ridiculous because HRC and Trump offered 99% the same platform but we are supposed to believe they were completely different.
Easy. Far-left ideas are mainstream, anything else is radical far-right nonsense.
Out of touch, Hollywood wamyn “lead a march for women.” Not enough wamyn produced films get nominated at Cannes, apparently. Here’s a pro-tip for them: make better movies if you want them to be nominated more often than they currently are. But of course, that would take effort. Much easier to try and shame everyone into pretending their shit is gold.
See any comment above about SJW’s and the childish pattern of socialists.
Not the worst kind of racism you experience growing up in this country, but certainly the most annoying. Amen, brother. Truth to power.
My mother and sister are here visiting Mrs Gordilocks and our new arrival. I’m making pancakes and mimosas and doing my level best to tolerate my mother’s presence …. last night my mother in law was here, and was giving me shit for the horrifying act of enjoying a beer in the presence of my infant daughter. The woman is a walking caricature of how some progressives are puritan religious figures sans The Lord. She’s 100 years late for the last Temperance Union Suffragette’s meeting.
I’ll spare you any further kvetching about my family, but my MIL alluded to mother’s day being rooted in some kind of anti-war protest back in the day … I’ll leave it up to The Glibertariat to enact my labour and see if this is true.
The modern Mother’s Day was conceived around 1910, so before World War I.
last night my mother in law was here, and was giving me shit for the horrifying act of enjoying a beer in the presence of my infant daughter.
Haha! Get your wife a milk stout for lactation and have her drink it in front of her mom.
Congratulations again! Parenthood is loads of fun!
Thanks. My daughter is a beautiful little being, insert new parenthood cliches here _____________________!!!
No cliche, but speaking as Dad to four daughters, I’ll say that the best years of your life are starting right now.
Sister on derpbook put up, “It takes a a man to be a father” on Father’s day last year. I posted, “It takes a woman to be a mom” on hers today. Let’s just say super prog sister was triggered.
I’ve always maintained that motherhood and fatherhood were titles you had to earn with far more effort and care than engaging in the simple act of reproducing.
Were you able to find her old post and link to it?
Oh, it’s there. She has defriended me three or four times. It’s kind of fun. Then she’ll take me back as if nothing happened. It doesn’t even bother me anymore.
Most women today have no problem insisting that men fulfill their “traditional” duties, but screech at the thought of women having any corresponding duties.
Did you explain to MIL that the kid can’t tell the difference between a bottle of beer and a bottle of ketchup? Jesus, I feel for you. I put up with some annoying MIL concessions back in the day. Now that I am older and more curmudgeonly, if I had to put up with it now I am afraid I would just tell her to get the fuck out of my house.
Grandma undermining the parent’s authority in front of the kid isn’t good for the kid to see, either.
use a version of my standard response: Dont worry, I wont give her one until she is 14.
“was giving me shit for the horrifying act of enjoying a beer in the presence of my infant daughter”
That would result in a lifetime ban at my house.
Eh, trying to maintain the peace here, but I see your point.
Found a feel good story for John Titor and Rufus. What is Canada like for a refugee? Poor Mohammad faces evil discrimination by racist Canadians.
The Adjacent Arabs may have started to think, “This isn’t going so well.”
Last week when Iran lobbed some missiles into Israel and Israel responded by blowing the shit out of every Iranian military site in Syria gave me a chuckle. Every time it was mentioned on the news, which was often, I giggled. That probably makes me a bad person but fuck Iran. Maybe the Palestinians are wising up.
That probably makes me a bad person but fuck Iran.
I say let them all fuck each other, with neither assistance nor interference financed by Uncle Sam’s tax slaves.
Good Lord we are forced to waste a lot of money there. Tell all these interventionist ‘realpolitik’ jerks to pass the hat and get their warboners and Israel fetish off without me being forced to pay for it.
I agree. We sell them a bunch of missiles but I am sure you and I pay for a bunch of them too. I think we recently sold a bunch to the Saudi’s, but we also fire our own on their behalf.
Always make them pay up front, in case they lose the war
Senator Graham has hurt feelz over his butt buddy supposedly being trashed by someone in the White House.
But “bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” is not disgusting.
But it’s a good parody
Don’t mis-de-gender me, says self-described “gender outlaw” who deliberately gives herself a masculine appearance as a form of self-expression. “Being a woman is integral to my identity, and it hurts when people in my own community assume I am not one because of the way I style and dress myself.”
Surprisingly enough, little word here on how long she has been having this problem. Specifically, on whether five or ten years ago a woman of her appearance was not immediately identifiable as such, as opposed to a biological woman seeking the social role of man–or a person who would like to be addressed with a boutique pronoun.
Then again, forget I asked. That would be asking whether traditional forms of feminism, queerness, or gender nonconformity were somehow impacted, or even imperiled, by the standard transgender narrative. And I would never do that. I still have an account at Reason.
“Then again, forget I asked. That would be asking whether traditional forms of feminism, queerness, or gender nonconformity were somehow impacted, or even imperiled, by the standard transgender narrative.”
The problem is that misgendering a person who dresses like a man but wants to be a woman is probably very rare. They make up maybe 5-10% of the transgender population and to expect everyone to accommodate them rather than not treat them like the usual transgender person seems presumptuous on their part. / Oblivious Prog.
This is only about power and control. This person intends to make it difficult and she intends to make it an important issue in personal relations simply because it carries some power.
If everyone responded with “I don’t give a shit”, this would end quickly.
Yep. I don’t suffer narcissists.
She deliberately dresses and styles herself to look like a man, then gets mad when people think she’s a man? And the news/social media is paying attention to her? Jerry Springer really was the downfall of western civilization.
At Open Mic event at SUNY-Oswego, a conservative student criticized the campus left’s intolerance regarding speech
You’ll never guess what happened next.
The mic wasn’t that open. At least they had the courtesy to prove her right.
Alt headline “Student punished for saying left doesn’t like free speech”
Does the left not see the irony (about as good an example you’ll find to illustrate the true meaning of that word, I’m looking at this Alannis)
The left doesn’t do irony anymore.
When you get called out by Turley, you know you’ve made the A team of assholes.
Cocktail party!
(actually, A+ cocktail names there by Suderman)
LOL. That Tweet in the pic….FAKE DRINKS! Hilarious.
Zoo charged for taking bear out for ice cream
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A Canadian zoo has been charged under the country’s Wildlife Act after officials took a bear for ice cream at a Dairy Queen drive-through.
The Discovery Wildlife Park, located in Innisfail, Alberta, has been charged under the Wildlife Act for taking a bear outside the facility without notifying authorities. The zoo is being charged with an additional count after it emerged that the bear was being taken to an employee’s home each night for bottle feeding in 2017.
“Under the terms and conditions of the zoo’s permit, the charges are directly related to the alleged failure of the park to notify the provincial government prior to the bear leaving the zoo,” Alberta Fish and Wildlife said in a statement.
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It was just a little Boo Boo.
Tell it to Ranger Smith.
https://youtu.be/k5AwcMWb1Ns
Relevant
Chicago Fed Thinks It Knows How To Tax Illinoisans Fleeing Pension Liabilities
Mooooar.
Detroit never happened.
Yet another problem the government created, and wants to punish everyone for. Fuck you. Cut spending.
I enjoyed last night’s thread on kink, including some informative photos on bondage, suspensions, and so forth. But how could you leave out my own personal favorite?
Damnit, Diego. You want suicides on mother’s day?
Hey, it’s mattress girl. That money her parents spent on Columbia was freaking wasted.
The only time I’ve ever enjoyed watching anyone be physically assaulted.
The only people being willingly degraded in that video are the audience.
They sit there and make assholes of themselves, pretending to understand what the artist is conveying, when the joke is that the artist is an idiot.
It’s like 90% of modern art museums.
All that was missing were signs like ‘Resistance!’ and ‘#metoo!’
This was the face protesting the alleged campus rape culture?
Then again, we kinda all knew lugging a mattress around was bonkers and a theatrical shtick.
No shit quote: “Nobody really cares, do they?” as ‘Team Emma’ (lol) and Comic book guy untie her. Such courage. Such class! Such art! To the Time cover!
I wonder if she’s gonna accuse of him of rape.
You know she made a hardcore porn dramatization of the alleged incident, right?
Don’t waste your time looking for it. It is not good porn.
The mattress gets nekkid and takes it up the do not remove under penalty of law?
Vaguely. The one she took up the…right?
Ha! I hadn’t seen that. I’ve got my opinions about Emma. Let’s just say she reinforces the notion I have that many feminists who complain about patriarchy and rape culture are projecting their fantasy life onto reality and be proscriptive not descriptive. Almost none of the serious FemDoms I know who aren’t man-hating bull dykes have much patience for that SJW bullshit.
Early last month, the UCLA and Fresno State Army ROTC detachments held a training in which their “enemy” was garbed in “civilian clothes from Arab countries.”
They should have put them in buckskin loin cloths and feathers.
[enthusiastic applause, hearty laughter]
The US Army fought about 50 wars against various Indian tribes. Fighting Indians was the single biggest chunk of federal spending until the Civil War.
The Pawnee practiced human sacrifice. The Army persuaded them to knock that off. Wiki sez:
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What was a five-day ceremony was begun around her. The Morning Star priest would sing songs describing the advancing stages in the rite, and the girl was symbolically transformed from human form to be among the celestial bodies. Here the girl became the ritual representation of the Evening Star. On the final day of the ceremony, a procession of men, boys and even male infants carried by their mother accompanied the girl outside the village to where the men had raised a scaffold.[1]:124 They had used sacred woods and skins, and the scaffold represented “Evening Star’s garden in the west, the source of all animal and plant life.”[21]
The priests removed her clothing and she was left alone on the scaffold at the moment of the rising of the Morning Star (Mars). Two men coming from the east would touch her lightly with flaming branches (symbolizing Morning Star’s ball of fire) in the arm pits and the groin. Four other men would touch her with war clubs. Then the man who had captured her would run forward with the sacred bow from the Skull bundle and shoot her through the heart, while simultaneously another man would strike her over the head with the war club from the Morning Star bundle. The dead girl’s chest would then be cut open by the priest with a flint knife while her captor caught her blood on dried meat. (“A very small cut is made … The heart is not exposed or removed.”)[1]:123 Finally, all male members of the tribe would press forward and shoot arrows into the dead body. They then would circle the scaffold four times and disperse.[22]
By having all the men in the village shoot arrows into her body, the village men, embodiments of Morning Star, were symbolically mating with her. Her blood would drip down from the scaffolding and onto the ground which had been made to represent the Evening Star’s garden of all plant and animal life. They took her body and lay the girl face down on the prairie, where her blood would enter the earth and fertilize the ground. The spirit of the Evening Star was released and the Skidi Pawnee participants were ensured the success of the crops, all life on the Plains, and the perpetuation of the Universe.
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The Pawnee fought with the US against the Cheyenne and the Lakota.
I’m sure someone yammers about how the Pawnee lived in harmony with nature, when really, they just didn’t have the technology to better exploit their environment. That ritual seems to have been about increasing yields. I bet the women chosen as Evening Stars would have rather had fertilizer and an irrigation system.
Whew. Good thing no one there was allowed to have a gun, or someone might have died.
Also, I making my [REDACTED] barbecue for my mom today.
My Mom is getting BBQ also but she has to wait until tomorrow for it. She is just getting some flowers in a pot today.
Nice hommage to your mother, sir.
Who is Karl Marx?
Teen Vogue, bastion of philosophical commentary and anal sex tips.
Hitler was misunderstood!
You’ll never say hello to you
Until you get it on the red line overload
You’ll never know what you can do
Until you get it up as high as you can go
Out along the edges
Always where I burn to be
The further on the edge
The hotter the intensity
Bloomberg is such an insufferable elitist douche with a God-complex.
Salt this.
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Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, said it’s his work for more gun control — along with his anti-smoking and healthy eating campaigns — that have won him God’s favor and a sure spot behind the Pearly Gates.
His exact words, made in context of discussing his smoking cessation and anti-obesity pushes, as well as his concerted crackdowns on private gun ownership, to the New York Times were: “I am telling you if there is a God, when I get to heaven I’m not stopping to be interviewed. I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. It’s not even close.”
Mr. Bloomberg, 72, made the remarks after mentioning his growing distress over the number of former college classmates he’s noticed in the “in memoriam” pages of his school newsletter, the New York Times reported. Mr. Bloomberg’s just reached his 50th anniversary of his college graduation.
While mayor, Mr. Bloomberg pushed to ban Styrofoam containers, trans-fats, certain tobacco sales, and super sized sodas, to name a few.
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Christ, what an asshole
It pains me to have shared the same college as that douchebag.
“…when I get to heaven I’m not stopping to be interviewed. I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. It’s not even close.”
What if it says ‘No Jews’?
Finally a progressive who admits he’s a puritan.
PURTIANS WEREN’T JEWS!
Or were they?
/pensive Homer stare.
That motherfucker is insufferable.
The problem is that misgendering a person who dresses like a man but wants to be a woman is probably very rare.
I’m probably woefully obtuse, but I have known some women who tended to “dress like a man”. You know, Levi’s, or Carharts, with flannel shirts and heavy jackets and work boots; work wear. You’d have to have had worse than 20-800 vision to not recognize them as fully operational females.
*shrugs*
Question for OMWC –
As Mrs Gordilocks is one of (((you))), and by (((your))) code, that makes my new daughter a member of (((The Tribe))), does this at all grant me access to the secret handshakes? How about the world domination meetings? Anything?
You get access to all the best and most enticing candy.
You’re missing a golden opportunity to try to get in on the ground floor of the weather control racket.
Your daughter will get the secret access code from her Rabbi. This grants access to the Rothschild stores of gold. But you only get 3 times on the weather machine per year, so you should make them count.
You get the *real* Montreal smoked meat. The gentiles get the Greek version/imitation.
I went to Schwartz’s once, on a Tuesday at lunchtime. No line up, nobody there. Great smoked meat, even if I only got the Greek version.
No line? I’ve literally NEVER seen that. Pics or it didn’t happen.
Yeh, the Greeks took over a few Jewish delis. I think Snowdon (and The Main? Not sure anymore) is one of the last remaining one among the more famous delis. Wilensky’s is still Jew owned as is Lesters.
+1 Charcuterie Hebraique
lol.
Richard Dreyfuss as Duddy Kravitz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU5HDCU0bDg
I’ve always wondered how that works. As a gentile parent of a new (((member))), isn’t it something like you don’t get to be in the locker room but you get luxury box seating, type of thing?
Enquiring minds want to know!
Here’s how it works- you have to go to the rabbi, mumble, “Mene mene tekel ufarshin,” then whip out your shaygetz shmeckel. The rabbi then takes a knife, turns it into an octodog, and sends you home for eight days. After eight days, you go back to the rabbi, who dips your shaygetz shmeckel into a jar of brine from kosher pickles, says a “shehechianu” prayer, and only then, you get your bag of Jewgold.
This sounds like it should have been covered in Creosote’s article last night.
Hate speech sentencing guidelines reviewed in Jolly old England, you can get seven years now and the more influential you are the more time you get.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hate-crime-sentences-increased-harsher-influence-social-media-followers-a8341991.html
Remember mates, when you’re criticizing those Muslim grooming gangs, be nice (actually, better not criticize them at all).
Now they’re going to measure ‘influence’?
Solzhenitsyn wrote ‘Warning to the West’ in the 1970s. In it, he claimed Soviet communism would doom the West including the UK. While it seemed like he missed his prediction, I’m stating to wonder if he’s getting the last laugh.
Now that is how you Overlord. It’s too bad limey mammals taste as bland as their cooking, and are otherwise not entertaining (with the exception of watching them get run over by a more entertaining tribe)
Drinking mimosas waiting for my flight. Wifey gets the gift of a an emptier house.
That’s what I want on Father’s Day.
I could not disagree with this analysis more.
You want to criticize Morris, fine. I won’t defend him in general. But he’s young, and naïve, and has been spending his whole life being bombarded by propaganda. I was always better than that myself, as were my friends, but I have it within my heart to go easy on him. Where on Earth do you get such sympathy for Dakota? We’re supposed to feel sympathy for him against Morris when Morris commits the sin of overreacting to something we’re supposed to consider no big deal? You know who did consider it a big deal? Dakota. In the propaganda he is filming, to serve his own career. Propaganda feeding a moral panic that cost millions of lives and trillions of dollars. We’re supposed to feel sympathy for him when a child he has been filling with this lesson, self-righteously lecturing, holds him to his own professed principles? That he catches him in his hypocrisy and is angry, confused, and hurt? This analysis is morally bankrupt and makes me want to vomit.
I always hated those moralizing stupid shows including those fucken retarded ABC After School Specials. I was constantly pointing out who the real shitheads were.
Still do. My wife hates watching TV with me.
Muppets are able to see man for what cis-he is.
Oh come on! All of them? Some were very informative.
LOFL.
‘Get the paramedics!’
‘Right, right!’
I can’t stop laughing. So bad it’s good!
First paragraph of that Teen Vogue thing about K Marx:
You may have come across communist memes on social media. The man, the meme, the legend behind this trend is Karl Marx, who developed the theory of communism, which advocates for workers’ control over their labor (instead of their bosses). The political philosopher turned 200-years-old on May 5, but his ideas can still teach us about the past and present.
Accuracy of this statement aside, what leapt off the page at me was this: I would be willing to bet the person who wrote that has also written in weepy detail about the horribleness of the “gig economy” (in which the workers have greatly enhanced control over their labor) due to the insecurity and unpredictability of the work and compensation.
which advocates for workers’ control over their labor, their friends’ labor, the labor of everyone they’ve never met and the means of production (instead of their bosses).
Fixed it for them.
Just a few tweaks, if I may:
which advocates for
workers’government control over their labor, their friends’ labor, the labor of everyone they’ve never met and the means of production, and the range of opinions that are allowed to be expressed.They were very careful to tiptoe around the fact that the labor theory of value has since been completely evicerated.
I don’t think they’re tiptoeing around it at all. I think they’re just stupid.
Marx’s ideas rest on the labor theory of value, and the exploitation theory of interest. Both of which were eviscerated, but people advocating for giving Marx a fair chance will act like that’s nothing.
Another odd suggestion, which I remember from my “market leftist” days and which left-libertarians seem to love: worker-owned companies. Power to the people!
Right from the time I heard of it, my thoughts were: Is this really something ordinary workers in sectors that currently don’t have it want? To not only have your continued labor dependent on the success of a firm, but to also bear the full exposure of an all-in owner of its capital? Wouldn’t you want to diversify your investments, not concentrate them on a bet on the same firm you depend on for your continued employment? Weird stuff.
EESOP’s are great exit strategies for owners. I don’t think the employees are getting what they think they’re getting.
I think people who think “worker-owned” means “bigger paycheck” want it, but I agree that it’s not necessarily something you really want. If your share in the company is part of your compensation package and the company goes tits-up, or God forbid loses some horrible lawsuit, you’re out money. And it doesn’t cost the company anything to cut you in, while it costs the rest of your colleagues a slice of the pie.
Yes. Enron happened right after I was initially preached to about this and offered my objections. I figured the world would have surely thrown some cold water on this great, pro-worker idea. I’ve shocked to see it’s seemed to do absolutely nothing to dampen enthusiasm.
+1 Twentieth Century Motor Company
Not exactly diversification to own stock in the company you work for.
All that was missing were signs like ‘Resistance!’ and ‘#metoo!’
In the ass.
RE the Hawaii lava flowing over houses. First I am having a hard time finding any sympathy for people who build on an active volcano that we know will continue to erupt and has been since 1983. Second, how can this be declared a major disaster when it is known that it is going to happen and why do taxpayers get to help rebuild? Also, how the hell do these people have fire insurance when it is a certainty their houses will burn down one day when the lava starts flowing?
I don’t equate this to natural disasters like a hurricane because there are odds involved there. Not that taxpayers should be on the hook for hurricanes either, but the volcano erupting was known to happen eventually.
Well maybe they were smart and got a policy from Waterfall Insurance…
Isn’t most of HI active volcanoe(s)?
I think the big island is the only one that has active lava flows but I am too lazy to search it right now.
Hawaii is the only island with an active volcano. Hawaii and Maui both have dormant volcanoes. The rest of the island chain, all the way to wear it enters the Aleutian Trench are extinct volcanoes.
I know that many structures are not insured because, “Who would insure something on an active volcano?” , so they people are already going for Federal funding. IMHO the Feds should stay out since funding such behavior just brings more of it. There is one subdivision on the Big Island that is literally constructed on top of the lava flows that wiped version 1.0 a few decades back.
Correct. The Big Island is the only above sea level island that has an active volcano and two that are dormant and not extinct. AFAIK, all of the other major islands only have extinct volcanoes.
I’d go so far as to say that if they can’t find insurance, it’s probably because of artificial anticompetitiveness caused by regulation. You can, after all, be insured against your death, even though we know for certain it will happen (and, almost certainly, happen in a way that results in payment of the benefit). In both cases the insurer has a winning round every time a premium is due and the insured survives.
good point
Maybe there is a government solution? Like Flood Insurance. Sign up now. And again. And again.
Same thing for Earthquakes, We will have another, just don’t know when…….
/socal
However, in a Marxist revolution, the proletariat will come together to overthrow the bourgeoisie and ultimately, win the class conflict by taking control over their work, or striking. And if such a revolution occured in Brunt’s classroom, his students would overthrow him as a teacher — and the principal, the superintendent, and so on.
I’m sure those kids especially liked the “hanging them from lampposts” part.
Another odd suggestion, which I remember from my “market leftist” days and which left-libertarians seem to love: worker-owned companies. Power to the people!
Right from the time I heard of it, my thoughts were: Is this really something ordinary workers in sectors that currently don’t have it want?
As you point out, what they want is reward without risk. Who doesn’t?
Pay based on actual sales, instead of hours spent bullshitting with your co-workers? That’s hard.
This Mother’s Day, let’s all raise our mimosas in salute to that woman who has made life better for so many hundreds of people:
To Winston’s Mom!
I’ll cut Winston some slack today, only Because it’s Mothers Day,
and I’m down to one Mom out of 4 parents,
Cheers!
Hear! Hear!
This Mother’s Day, let’s all raise our mimosas in salute to that woman who has made
life better forso many hundreds of people check into the nearest after hours clinic.To Winston’s Mom!
Won’t somebody please think of the shakedown artists?!
Good grief. Mullen is on FOX, moaning about the Nork summit. If the talks break down, there will be WAR!
Yeah, I guess the status quo was better. Especially since the incompetence of people like you was not put in the harsh glare of reality.
They deliberately reduce the ability to build sufficient housing in order to prop up their and their friend’s home values.
I think they know exactly how supply and demand works.
Actually, San Francisco is in the midst of a housing boom that is like nothing that’s ever happened there before. I lived in SF from 1985-1999 and then much of what you are saying was true, there was essentially a 3-story limit on most residential buildings, which I must admit led to a very cool neighborhoody feel to most of the city in those days, with everyone living in flats (and it seemed there were always tons of parties going on in those flats!). But the continued pressures of the tech boom started to make the standard rental units inadequate in number (along with skyrocketing rents from this demand). The result has been a huge number of new highrises being built, with mostly residential floors, in the formerly factory/warehouse areas like South of Market and Dogpatch, where you’ll see numerous building cranes in every direction you look. Of course, these high-rise apartments are very pricey, but the tech kids are all flush with cash and want those investments, so they sell quickly. Same thing is happening in Oakland.
Yet the state’s developers aren’t satisfied with all the building going on the big cities, they’ve been pushing for statewide laws forcing bedroom-community style sleepy suburbs to build high-rise market-price apartment towers (with 10% affordable units guaranteed!) And there’s plenty of local lickspittle to support them (our NextDoor website in our little mom-and-pop SF suburb, with only a four-block downtown in the midst of steep hills, where all the town’s residents live on windy roads, has posts saying ‘it’s our obligation to build high-density housing for our region”. Not quite sure where that will be, unless they tear down the grocery store or the pharmacy — and both have been suggested in deference to ‘our obligation’.)
The true answer would be to stop the snobs from fretting about the ‘sprawl’ they will never see anyway, and allow the urban limit lines to expand. The reverse commutes are pretty empty — entice new businesses on the outside lines of the Bay Area, and suddenly there’s more capacity for everyone. But no, the elites still want the city to be the center and everything to point towards it. They don’t even realize that Silicon Valley is the result of an earlier wave of “sprawl”, would they have wanted to prevent that in retrospect?
Open offices are sexist!
Some women would avoid visiting parts of the office where they weren’t expected: “You just don’t, do you? Right, this is going to sound extremely sexist but remember I do work with a lot of men,” a woman named Wendy told the researchers. “If you were a female, that would definitely get a comment from all the men because they would notice you.” For Wendy, the design of the office, despite the architects’ intention of promoting freedom of movement, actually inhibited it.
Conscious of male eyes, some women began to dress differently. Without an architectural layout that indicated their place in the office hierarchy, they began to rely on their clothing to signal to other people whether they were important or not. One woman told the researchers that she started wearing jackets and stopped wearing cardigans because the latter would indicate that she was in admin. Others began to wear more makeup or dress up more, conscious that people were looking at them all the time.
The Male Gaze is inexorable. Extra points for the nude beach comparison.
If you’re insecure about people looking at you, I fail to see how this becomes everyone else’s problem. Go see a shrink for your insecurities, shut the fuck up, and do your job.
I love how feminists are openly stating that women are so emotionally delicate that they become traumatized at the thought of men looking at them in the office. Yet, it’s considered the most vile sacrilege to suggest that there are any inherent differences between men and women that might result in different career choices or outcomes.
I’m getting my wife exactly what she asked for: a chance to sleep in.
The boys and I are getting donuts and going to LAX to watch the morning rush from Asia. Should be a few A-380s in the lineup.
Spent one lazy early fall afternoon snoozing and watching planes take off from the street that runs above the beach there at LAX.
I work on a roof top in Commerce Ca. that has an excellent view of the LAX approach, I waste a lot of time staring at the sky when I’m there,
No shit. I can tell by the comments by the peanut gallery here.
2 miles down the beach, and you would have been in God’s country.
Not only were women’s physical appearances up for judging, the open office also meant there was no private space where workers could go if they were emotionally distressed or needed to conduct a private conversation. “If you’re upset about something, there’s nowhere to go,” one woman told the researchers. “Where can you go? All you can do is go to the ladies, so there’s nowhere that you can go and speak to somebody on a one-to-one basis where you can’t be observed.”
And if the architect had said, “Well, we’re going to need a Ladies’ Lounge, so the girls can have a safe space for when they need a good cry,” how do we imagine that playing out?
Wait wait wait, won’t the fact that they will always be observed save them from the inevitable rape they’ll face from the insatiable men in the office?
But don’t dare say that on average women are more neurotic than men.
Keep it up ladies and you will find yourself back in the kitchen.
I tried to find a MILF gallery in honor of the day but everything was either majorly NSFW or post-menopausal fetish stuff. So here’s just some boring old hotties in lingerie.
http://archive.is/oaTRE
You can imagine that some of them are moms.
Number one looks like Kim Strassel from the WSJ
Which reminds me of her most recent column titled: “I’ll Flash My Titties if the Republicans Hold the House”.
Get out and vote for Strassel’s titties
Had to google her, she can keep her titties thank you very much.
Rejecting titties to own the cons.
You know how I know you’re gay?
You said “no, thank you” to boobage
Extend that logic out to say, oh, I dunno, someone like Lena Dunham, and we would all be gay.
Everyone has standards and mine are way higher than justifiable for a short, ugly, drunkard, with horrible social skills, but they are what they are.
I never pass on boobage. Not even from Dunham.
Also, I’m just kidding. Strassel never offered to flash WSJ readers if Republicans kept the House. That was Paul Gigot. Old man boobies. Nice
Threat or reward?
*searches images of Strassel*
Ah, a threat.
15 is a MILF, very tasty!
15 and 1 are the same. Tasty, indeed.
At the very least I’m sure they all have mothers.
Oh shit, now the UK has done it. It’s one thing when the UK fines and jails people for speech or when they start confiscating butter knives. It’s even fine when they starve a child to death. But, when you start restricting porn that’s when the brave “liberal” order springs into action.
I expect EU sanctions to be forthcoming
The way in which North Korea seems to be rolling over is freaking me out. There’s no way they looked at a build-up of US forces and just said nevermind. They’ve been expecting that for decades. Still waiting for the other shoe to drop and I hope it’s not an explosive one. Even the idea that China is pressuring them so that the US will leave seems a bit optimistic, though it’s probably true. Surely the Chinese know the US doesn’t ever leave. It’s almost like when someone starts giving away all of their possessions right before they commit suicide. Something is just not right about this whole scenario.
This thought has occurred to me too. They could be using this as a ruse for an attack.
The more optimistic thing I can think of is if the Norks believe that they can’t maintain control, they could just be trying to set the table so that they have an exit strategy that doesn’t involve hanging from lamp posts.
If it turns into reunification it may well be the single most important historical achievement of any President (even if he’s not directly responsible). It may be one of the single most historical moments in history…a country divided reunites peacefully after decades of preparing for war. When does that EVER happen? It may have, but very rarely.
Maybe East and West Germany…
Yes, this has been my thought as well.
although my thinking is less that there’s any ‘explosive reversal’ pending, but rather that…. the real underlying reasons for this shift in tone are being carefully avoided for the sake of diplomatic appearances
its not unusual in diplomacy: everyone will happily play along w/ some grand lie so long as it helps enable some outcome they all, for one reason or another, think is inevitable.
I have not had time or inclination to go digging, but i suspect the real motive is that the Chinese have been telling the Norks for years now, “the game is up”; and the reason the Norks are suddenly playing nice *now* isn’t that they agree and are genuinely capitulating… but that they think that appearing to do so will at least buy 20 more years.
I can imagine KJU thinking, “we’re going to be having these fucking ‘summits’ now every 5 years'”
look at Israel/Palestine; Israel for the most part has already “won”. they “won” mostly by pretending to be open to negotiation with the Palestinians, but gradually inching forward and grabbing a little more every time negotiation failed.
This sort of “rapproachment” thing can take decades, and i suspect KJU’s sudden interest in dialogue isn’t so much a sign of genuine reversal of his posture, but rather that he thinks that APPEARING to have a sudden reversal of posture gives him the strongest bargaining position with his real opponent – which is China, not the US. Because the US is just the “Bad Cop” pretending to be scary. Its Good Cop-China that gives the Norks favors and food that KJU is actually afraid of.
Makes sense.
There are a lot of ramifications for the US if Korea reunifies. Anti-US sentiment in Japan may rise as they begin to question if the US really does need such a large presence there. The people I work with have a pretty big blindspot when it comes to this. They haven’t quite grasped the idea that a first world sovereign country might want us to just fuck off, even if we are allies.
Koreans may start to feel the same way.
Even with China flexing its newfound power I could definitely see the other countries in the region (very politely) telling the US to mind its own business while they take care of it themselves.
Very good point.
i do think the subject of “US forces in the region” will definitely be on the table.
I think part of it is that the US has been waiting decades for an excuse to trade a little bit of that away. We don’t need 70,000+ troops stationed in the far-east to project power. We could have half that and not sacrifice much in the way of capability.
*that said:
i think it would be wrong to pretend Trump’s “madman theory” war-talk bluster has played no role. Also, i think it would be wrong to pretend that his “trade war w/ China” talk also played no role.
I think it will be impossible to say what value any of these things have had until there’s been some actual material concessions made by NK.
That said, if Norks DO throw a bone to China/US via these ‘summit’ type talks…. i think those above things (otherwise considered the worst aspects of Trump’s Foreign Policy posturing) should probably be seen in a new light.
Another element is that much of the KJ dynasty’s behavior is driven by a desire to maintain power, and they saw nukes as a way to do that. If they are getting the message that The Donald isn’t interested in overthrowing the regime, and neither is China, that they keep their prison country full of misery if they just drop the nukes, that may also be playing a role.
A part of me rebels at the idea of tossing all those poor bastards under the bus so we can avoid a war, but 1) they are already under the bus, and 2) so solly, not our circus, not our monkeys
When is the last time a president looked the Norks in the eye and earnestly said “If you dont stop fucking around I am going to exterminate you”?
Everyone is scared shitless of Trump because he isnt a squishy incompetent. If he says he is going to shoot you he is probably going to shoot you. As you point out this could be a good time for the Nork leadership to get out from under the sword of Damocles.
Get woke, go broke.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/05/the-strange-case-of-dicks.php
Because this was posted by Q, I was expecting penises, not sporting goods.
http://impressivebulges.tumblr.com/
SFW as long as you don’t navigate to the sidebar lynx.
Nevermind, scrolling down there is definite NSFW.
And these are the lengths I go to to keep my fans happy.
It’s like Starbucks willingly turning their shops into drug dens and homeless encampments. “Signals, Jerry!”
I’m sitting here with the teevee on in the background. They’re advertising a roomba for your barbecue grill.
A roomba, for your barbecue grill. Is this a great country, or what?
Milkshakes Delivered to your door, is this a Great country or what?
Grillbot!
I need it.
It costs more than my grill though and I wonder if it’s actually effective…
My grill just flat out needs new grates; no robot can fix that. But 25 years of abuse is long enough life I suppose.
I’ve never had a grill last that long… Then again, I grill something at least twice a month year round.
I’m thinking about just stacking up a bunch of bricks and placing a lid of some kind on top of it. Bricks don’t rust and wear out, and grates are cheap.
Can I use it while the grill is on?
Pie’s People do the Right thing!
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/05/13/revolt-three-eu-nations-block-resolution-meant-embarrass-isolate-white-house/
Guess which three?
Embarrass Trump. Heh.
A recurring theme?
A Tesla sedan with a semi-autonomous Autopilot feature has rear-ended a fire department truck at 60mph apparently without braking before impact, but police say it’s unknown if the Autopilot feature was engaged.
The cause of the Friday evening crash, involving a Tesla Model S and a fire department mechanic truck stopped at a red light, was under investigation, said police in South Jordan, a suburb of Salt Lake City.
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There was light rain falling and roads were wet when the crash occurred, police said in a statement.
‘Witnesses indicated the Tesla Model S did not brake prior to impact,’ the statement said.
Crash scene photos. The car is fucked. I assume the driver’s door was removed by the “rescue team” but still… I don’t think Tesla is going to get a five star rating.
Anyone who buys one of those things…I certainly dont wish them ill but geez. They asked for it.
In case it wasn’t clear above, OMWC’s Mom is a (((Saint))). I don’t have my own Mom any longer, but my MIL is a darn good runner up.
This morning in genealogy, I stumbled upon some postcards sent home to a Mom in rural New York from her son, a Corporal serving in France in World War I. “I hope you’re smiling Mother, because everything is fine here. It was sunny today and I am feeling fine. Nothing to worry about over here! Love, from your son Corp. O. Johnson”
Sometimes it’s OK to lie to your Mom.
He wasn’t lying, he left out the other part is all,
/A Good Son
I am sure that I sent a few emails like that….
A guy I used to work with did a couple of tours in Afghanistan.
He was featured in a photo on the cover of The Toronto Sun carrying a casket into a C-130 for the return home.
No lying to Mom about that one.
I saw that Tom Steyer ad and I think I love Trump now. That was the most ridiculous and offensive advertisement I’ve ever seen. It was worse than those talking hamsters in those Quiznos commercials. That’s how bad it was.
“Your son doesn’t vote Democrat, ergo he’s a Nazi”
Basically sums up the commercial
“I learned it from YOU Mom!”
Tom Steyer, the world’s stupidest billionaire. (and yes that we was laughably terrible).
That “we?” That ad, what the he’ll autocorrect?
“”I saw that Tom Steyer ad“”
LOL!..
omg its so good.
Good god. At first I thought that was parody. I also thought she said, “talk to your child about the Jew.” It took two listens to figure out she said GOP.
Then she starts drinking.
Its like a parody of every cloistered housewife who spends too much time on the internet and is panicking that her child is going to join the “Alt right” because he has a Pepe avatar
Religion of peace at it again. A family affair in this case. The family that radicalizes together….explodes together?
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2018/05/13/suicide-bomber-family-affiliated-with-is-national-police-chief-says.html
“Grosse Point Blank” is on.
“You’re a psychopath.”
“A psychopath kills for no reason. I kill for money.”
I’m only giving cursory attention to the news today. I need a break from the sumbfuckery that has become America. Not to mention that Britain has gone full fascist.
There’s a brisket on the smoker, good golf on the tele and it’s Sunday(not that it means much those of us retirees living off the public tit). I may even start drinking early.
Define “early”.
Brunch is an excuse today.
Cocktail hour usually starts around four or five. Unless it’s noon. Or eleven.
I’m only giving cursory attention to the news today. I need a break from the dumbfuckery that has become America. Not to mention that Britain has gone full fascist.
There’s a brisket on the smoker, good golf on the tele and it’s Sunday(not that it means much those of us retirees living off the public tit). I may even start drinking early.
And double posting. That takes effort.
One of my many talents.
OT: So thanks for the participation last night and the kindness. I was expecting to take a little more ribbing than I got.
Anyway, if anyone has questions, shoot me an email. I can be reached at my username with no spaces at gmail.com
Oh, C’mon Achilles. It’s true it is an overload of joke material with that subject but we are a bunch of fanatical individualists. Would it make you feel better if I said we were all thinking it?
I enjoyed the article. Good thread too.
Thanks.
No ribbing: we don’t use ribbed condoms.
In fact, we don’t use them at all.
Anyone who buys one of those things…I certainly dont wish them ill but geez. They asked for it.
I guess I shouldn’t harp quite so much on Teslas. Speaking strictly in terms of structural strength and crashworthiness, I have driven a long string of fucking deathtraps. Hustling it in a real Mini is like driving around at 100mph in a tin band-aid box. Given the opportunity, I would not hesitate to jump in a Lotus Seven, or a Cobra. I just find it surprising that the crash photos of the Tesla (a supposedly modern state-of-the-art car) show so much damage.
Well, head-on at 60 mph. I am surprised there isnt more damage.
As an illustration for youngsters learning to drive I ask them how fast they can run. They always overestimate. Average kids that age can run 10 to 16 mph (I measured). Then I ask them what they think would happen if they went out in the yard and ran as fast as they could with their eyes closed. Smack straight into a tree running as fast as you can would probably kill or maim you, right? Then I explain to them how many people are killed in car wrecks at 20 mph or less. Now imagine 40mph. You thought 40 was slow? It aint. Neither is 60mph. Or 70mph.
In my last job I spent an extraordinary amount of time on the road. That last year I counted 13 dead bodies. It’s a meat grinder out there. Most people dont realize that because the emergency services get there and clean it up so fast, but it’s true. I promise you, I am the safest driver you will ever meet.
That’s the thing we talk about with ships or airplanes (when controlling aircraft). It’s one thing hitting something standing still, but if you’re both heading towards each other at the same speed or faster, the relative speed is double. Ie. two aircraft approaching each other at Mach 1 – you ask one to give a visual ID of the other – they might get a split second glimpse the first time from a few miles away – and then expecting a wings clean/dirty call is a pipe dream.
Similarly ships colliding at say…15 kts each – 30 kts relative – but then the mass of 10000 tons each or more is immense.
My Grandfather was a civil engineer contracted with the Air Force. He was tasked with building a range for the jets stationed at England Air Force Base. They told him they needed 5 miles clear from the targets. He had a hell of a time finding such a place so he complained “Why do you need 5 miles? You cant hit any better than that?” So, they let him see for himself.
“They threw me in a jet and yanked my ass up off of the ground. That damned thing goes so fast you cant see anything on the ground. It’s just a blur”
He put the range in Kisatchie south of Alexandria with 7 miles clear around the targets.
And so little damage to the fire truck (#notsurprised).