The Wages of Virtue Signalling Are Food Stamps
Adam Smith has been unable to find a job since a video he made in protest of Chick-Fil-A went viral.
Sometimes the invisible hand is a bitchslap.
Novelist Philip Roth, whose vast body of work included the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral and the archetypal Portnoy’s Complaint, died Tuesday at the age of 85.
His death was announced by the New York Times and the New Yorker, the latter of which published one of Roth’s early short stories, “The Kind of Person I Am,” in 1958. Roth went on to publish a hefty bibliography, with famed works including Goodbye, Columbus; Zuckerman Unbound, and The Human Stain, in addition to the aforementioned Pastoral and Portnoy. Roth retired from writing novels in 2012.
Let the ritual kicking of the corpse begin!
Bertrammm
5/23/18 12:50am
Looks like we can finally be rid of the neckbeards kvetching about Roth not winning the Nobel every year. The award can only go to a living author.Rude Negro
5/23/18 8:58am
Roth’s stuff was self-indulgent pap. Only a chronic masturbator would think he deserved a Nobel.Auntie-Socialite
5/23/18 10:30am
Please let Woody Allen be next.
Here’s a palate cleanser, from, of all places, Slate: A Guide to the Many, Many Books of Philip Roth
GOB Bluth fondles this dog
Grooming Alert: Do Not Take Your Kids to the Show Dogs Movie
“Since the inspection of the private parts will happen in the finals, Frank touches Max’s private parts to get him use to it. Of course, Max doesn’t like it and snaps at Frank for him to stop. Max is then told by the former champion, who has been through the process before, that he needs to go to his “zen place” while it happens so he can get through it. More attempts are made by Frank to touch Max’s private parts, but Max is still having trouble letting it happen and keeps snapping at him.”
Max needs to get it together, see, and LET PEOPLE TOUCH HIS PRIVATE PARTS, or he might lose the competition and fail at his mission to rescue the kidnapped panda.
Do you see what’s happening here? Max’s success is riding on whether or not he lets both his partner (for practice) and a stranger (the competition judge) touch his private parts.
IN A KIDS MOVIE. WHAT???
Newsflash, folks: THIS IS CALLED GROOMING and it’s what sexual predators do to kids!
It gets worse. Maldonado describes the movie’s dramatic dog show finals scene:
The day of the finals come and if Max doesn’t let his private parts be touched, he may lose the competition and any hope of finding the kidnapped panda. It all rests on his ability to let someone touch his private parts. The judge’s hands slowly reach behind Max and he goes to his “zen place”. He’s flying through the sky, dancing with his partner, there are fireworks and flowers-everything is great-all while someone is touching his private parts.
Old Man With Candy was unavailable for comment.
File under: Right For All The Wrong Reasons
Obama Sucks as a Post-President
Saving our democracy from banana republicanism is just one thing that needs to be done right now. Even without Trump’s poison personality, we still face the same set of broad problems that afflicted our country a couple years back when Obama was still in office. We still have an unconscionably high prison population. We’re still riven by racism and sexism. And many of our institutions are being pulled apart at the seams by rising economic inequality, which Obama himself called the “defining challenge of our time.” So what did Barack Obama, one of the most famous men in the world, the immediate past leader of the world’s most powerful nation, do as soon as he left office, to demonstrate his commitment to solving these issues? He went on a kite surfing vacation with a billionaire. Then he got a $65 million book deal. And then, this week, he signed a deal to produce shows for Netflix. This is what he has deemed to be more important than speaking out forcefully against our slow slide into fascism and institutional corruption. This is what he has deemed more important than making even a symbolic gesture towards the idea that there is something more meaningful for a former president to do with his life than to get disgustingly wealthy. Instead of remaining a strong public voice for equality and using his unparalleled platform to draw attention to the very neediest class of people, he has chosen to sell his fame for huge sums and pal around with rich guys. Weird. I thought that was more of a Donald Trump thing.
Barack Obama: your life is not just about you. Get your fucking shit together man.
Another gem from Hamilton Nolan: he’s not just economically illiterate anymore!
I want you all to know how much this hurts me, but I do it for you because there are people on this very board that (for some reason) actually prefer small tits.
http://archive.is/0ahsa
There are a few borderline cases, notably 2, 13, 47 and 48, but I suffer for you. All for you!
Blocked by content filter. 🙁
Yes! I’ll be in my bunk!
Cute trumps hot. More smiles, less phony sultry and more fun!
Ah yes. You can always send me the ballerinas, gymnasts, the slinky, lithe and lovely ones.
One thing I still can’t get into, and it’s really only been a thing for the past few years — what is it with girls sticking their rear ends up and out in these pix as if they want to look like the back of a horse? How about standing like a person does, that’s when your ass looks best anyway, especially in panties or a bikini bottom. Sorry that someone has convinced you that you need to make your rump look bigger, but kiddo, it’s really nice the normal way, don’t ruin it.
Don’t listen to him, ladies. You just keep right on presenting. *stink-eyes Anacreon*
Nah, he’s right. Tweaking is stupid, too.
How do you feel about twerking? Jk
Ah yes. You can always send me the ballerinas, gymnasts, the slinky, lithe and lovely ones.
Give dat man a cigar! I like ’em built for comfort just fine, but I like ’em built for speed, more.
The not-wife-unit falls solidly in to the latter, coming in at 5′ nuthin and ~100 lbs. No tig ‘ol bitties required. Life is good.
Those are small?
I must be turning into sarc.
#metoo
Agreed. Many of them were not small. But it’s a start.
I think #10 is a borderline case, a borderline personality disorder basket case.
Finally a list worth a shit. :p
59 has car keying, tire slashing crazy eyes.
Holy 7.
Some of the victims in the Santa Fe High School shooting might have been shot by law enforcement
Always know what’s behind your target. DEFINITELY always know what’s between you and your target.
But let’s not arm teachers because they’re not highly trained experts like the pullees.
Didn’t that happen at the Waco biker thing too?
I think that was more all of the victims were shot by law enforcement.
Shouldn’t be hard to figure out – if they dig out anything other than shotgun pellets of .38 slugs.
ALL of the victims were shot by law enforcement
/false flagger
Obviously would have used evil weapons like an AR and semi-auto pistol with gigantic “clips”,
I don’t think I ever read anything by Roth. Maybe that one book I don’t remember the name of, which might have been written by some other guy.
Carry on.
Never read anything by him. I saw the film adaptation of The Human Stain with Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman. It was dull and depressing.
Portnoy’s Complaint was hilarious, written back when most things about sex were very taboo — yet he managed to do the “American Pie” movie bit about the pie many years earlier, only with some meat in the fridge rather than pie.
Goodbye, Columbus was also quite good; it seems to have been skipped over in the obits for some reason, in favor of a novel about a man writing a novel-type crap that older authors fall into, like the Zuckerman books.
Dude….you already had a Hillary article today.
It says “human”.
Ah. Gotcha.
Always know what’s behind your target.
I ain’t got no time for that. Dinner’s on the table. I gotta git home.
If you want a Good Show Dog Movie, watch Best In Show, Christopher Guest and Ensemble, wicked good fun!
Honest talk – I thought there were good bits but overall it was just too precious and self-aware.
Have you ever attended dog shows? I thought it was amazingly accurate.
Dog show part was fine. “Talking to people” bits were hit-and-miss. My comment at the time was “yes, and this is why movies have writers”.
Fair enough. I couldn’t stop laughing at the characters themselves. Because I’ve seen each of them irl.
Grooming Alert: Do Not Take Your Kids to the Show Dogs Movie
I wanted to mock the article as retarded, but, IF the description is accurate, it creeps me out to hell.
In the end, I agree people need to stop taking their kids to non-Pixar CGI pap just because it’s there. Emoji Movie made bank, FFS!
Most of my movie viewing is movies made before I was born. Most of the rest is of movies made before I was a legal adult.
Oh boy, wait till you discover “talkies”!
It’s a dog. Dogs lick their privates, for god’s sake.
Right, but when has that been a pivotal part of a movie plot?
I guess you never saw Titanic.
Yes, but since they can’t consent, it is self-sexual assault. They are both perp and victim.
This from the poster with a cat avatar.
You know I wasn’t serious, right? Anyway, don’t be dissing Tigger. He was a great cat, and just feels sorry for the poor dogs in the movie that have to endure abuse at the hands of their owners. It’s like modern-day slavery.
Yeah, I don’t agree with the OH MY GAWD…IT’S GROOMING KIDS FOR PEDOPHILES!!!!!!111!!! but it does sound pretty damn weird.
How do I make the damn Ice Cream truck stop playing that godawful obnoxious music?!?
Panzerfaust
Stop buying ice cream from them?
Give him $20 to go away?
Danegeld doesn’t work, I think I’ll go with Raven’s solution.
I couldn’t believe this story is five years ago already.
30-06
OMWC’s mating call?
Wait 10 minutes for it move to another neighborhood?
Are they playing the racist song again?
I consider my support of Roth a wholly separate matter from my chronic masturbation, thank you very much, Mr. Rude Negro.
Well, Just a Gigolo probably *was* self-indulgent pap. Hot For Teacher, on the other hand, was pure gold, and I defy anyone to say otherwise.
Unchained!
Definitely Nobel-worthy.
They’d just have to rescind it for ‘Jump’
Who knew Mike Anthony was the real glue for Van Halen?
Nobody ever feels tardy.
Do you see what’s happening here? Max’s success is riding on whether or not he lets both his partner (for practice) and a stranger (the competition judge) touch his private parts.
I approve this message.
Yrs trly,
Harvey Weinstein
his “zen place”
Or, as someone else calls it, the “candy store”.
The media’s finally starting to criticize Tesla. Elon’s whining about it.
How can someone who created something as awesome as SpaceX also create something as terrible as Tesla?
Boutique is easier than mass production?
Even boutique manufacturing is a motherfucker. But at least you get paid. He never should have tried for mass market.
Manufacturing for the government/military, no problem.
Manufacturing for the consumer, that’s one tough cookie.
Holman Jenkins agrees with you in today’s WSJ.
Other day folks were taking shots at Tesla’s brakes. Seems Edmonds has be having electronic problems with their test car. Maybe “Tesla” is Murican for “Lucas”.
https://www.edmunds.com/tesla/model-3/2017/long-term-road-test/2017-tesla-model-3-monthly-update-for-april-2018.html
Holy shit! Way worse than Lucas.
Elon, why in the name of Christ did you allow these out into the marketplace?
Holy crap, that list of issues they had. Insane.
Here’s more.
Very entertaining!
“Adam Smith has been unable to find a job since a video he made in protest of Chick-Fil-A went viral”
This is the feel good story of the day (even though it is 6 years old).
Residuals from “The Wealth of Nations” ran out?
There’s no way he should be using food stamps. He can find jobs, he’d just have to settle for something he’d consider beneath him.
Kind of sad that receiving food stamps is somehow superior to taking a position at less than an executive level.
Selling invisible hand jobs?
Funny, they focused the entire story on the guy who got fired for attacking Chic-fil-A. The other references were apolitical. Yet, the biggest practitioners of getting people fired for their politics or commentary are the left-of-center Twitter mobs (Yeah, including what Smith tried to do with the owners of Chic-fil-A).
I’m not exactly happy the guy’s life got ruined. But, the thing is, this guy still largely looks at himself as a victim, even though he could take less than spectacular work, which he doesn’t seem interested in. And he really brought all this on himself.
He should apply at Chick-Fil-A.
Place has class, and it would teach him a lesson about forgiveness.
I want to continue a rant I started yesterday on the subject of Americans and birthdays. Particularly as it relates to the subject of men and their birthdays. Thesis – a man who is a man does not celebrate his birthday. He does not celebrate himself at all, frankly (not to be confused with pleasuring oneself). There is little that I find more unbecoming in someone who considers themselves a fully developed adult man than thinking that an entire day should be set aside for their special adoration. Especially when the supposed achievement being celebrated is that your sorry ass was simply born on this day x number of years ago. Get your ass up, go to work, and go about your normal business. No one should even know you have a birthday.
I take a whole week off for my birthday. It’s the only holiday I recognize.
My birthday is on payday this year. I’m taking the two business days after it off to get a four-day weekend.
What are you buying? Pail of fresh milk?
No one should even know you have a birthday
Two words-‘Free Beer’
Paying for my own beverages is less of a pain than the harassment by “well-wishers” and other evil pests.
You’re right having my friends buy my beer and saying “happy birthday” is a horrific experience. I would put up with it if only the Q approved bartendresses could refrain from giving me hugs, that is what makes the whole thing unbearable.
That’s not what happens. The people who’d be that low key are the sort who’d be willing to overlook it anyway. It’s the gushing prats who don’t listen to “I don’t celebrate” that make it important to keep that information secret.
I get a free beer on my birthday as part of the mug club at our local brewery. That’s all I need.
My issue with it has been the attitude that someone announcing the day of their birthday is a sufficient explanation for them to take a day off work, miss a meeting, skip class et al.
I get to select how to use my time off. This year, I didn’t take it, but I’ve taken Birth Week before. I don’t want people to take me a lunch or bake me a cake, but if they ask me why I’m taking the time off, I won’t dissemble.
My original post (which B-award) replied to came because I got a part-time guy who works for me and there’s a social/work function on one day that directly pertains to what he does for me. I asked him if he was going and he said, “well, that’s my birthday and I’m going out to lunch with a friend.” The event probably isn’t that big a deal but it just pissed me off that he took it for granted that I’d understand he couldn’t go because, you know, it was his birthday.
I think Brochettaward just became my favorite commenter.
Same.
I always enjoy Brochettaward’s posts as well. But I can never figure out his icon. Is it Davy Jones whiffing a big tree branch of burning incense?
American Psycho. Christian Bale.
Thanks — now I know the person. What’s the action or apparently-smoldering thing he is holding? Then life’s greatest mystery will finally be solved for me.
Nice shiny Axe.
Speaking of avatars, I hate that I can’t read the shirts your cyclops wears.
Ah, now I see it! Thanks!
It looks so obvious now, but when you have always thought of it one way, the axe head always looked like wafts of smoke to me in the past.
Phew, not going completely daft.
“Stroh’s is spoken here”
It’s not a cyclops!!! close-set sure but whatyagonnado?
I would have sworn on a stack of bibles it was a cyclops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyJxZ8LXPcI
Holy smokes, I didn’t realize that Gavin Belson was in American Psycho. I need to re-watch.
Sometimes I’ve taken the day off, but just as a random day off as far as anyone knows not because it’s my birthday. I don’t think any of my co-workers knows which day it is. Maybe my manager if he bothered to pull out my jacket.
My family is lackadaisical about the it too. Usually my wife remembers. But if she doesn’t, doesn’t bug me either.
I enter my vacation requests in a computer. It’s never asked me why am I taking the time off.
A man shouldn’t celebrate himself, but it is wholly appropriate to allow others to celebrate him. If people want to throw a party for me, who am I to tell them they’re wrong?
Wanting to throw a party for me tells me that they don’t know me very well and thus puts me under no obligation to attend.
I don’t want a party, I don’t want presents. I want a week of fishing, shooting and drinking.
If they want to give me cash, I’ll take it.
My mom still sends me a check. I tell her not to, but what can you do, it’s mom.
I acknowledge my birthdays with family and friends. I don’t celebrate another trip around the sun as being significant.
I do celebrate my anniversary. That’s an actual accomplishment.
Putting up with your wife’s nagging for another year?
/just kidding
42 years last spring.
My wife and I celebrate together. We don’t get anyone else involved. We frequently go on vacation to be sure we are away from family and friends.
Wow! Congrats, man. As a veteran of 26 years, I tip my hat to you! It is a real accomplishment.
thanks
I couldn’t give a fuck about my birthday (or father’s day for that matter), but getting homemade cards from the kids was the greatest!
I fully agree. I have no problem letting that day slide as any other day. Be a man and accept that the world shouldn’t care that your precious life was created on that day. You should never pout like some overgrown Molly Ringwald in 16 candles.
That said, If the wife wants to provide me with a card, food, beer, and or carnal favors who am I to say no.
I think there’s a cultural aspect to this. In my family, birthdays stopped being a big occasion in middle school. By high school, it was usually just something where the birthday person got to pick where we went to dinner that weekend.
My wife’s family throws parties and makes a day of it, even for the elders.
If I can find an excuse to take the day (or a few days) off, I will. However, my birthday is on June 24th, so I usually just hold onto the vacation and take more time around 4th of July. This year is my 30th, so I’m sure my wife is gonna make a huge deal out of it…
Get off my lawn, you young fart.
I think I have been off work one time on my birthday since I started working. I’ve got #31 coming up in a few weeks. I expect to be working.
I haven’t had an actual birthday party since I was 12 years old. For a long time now, I just have a nice dinner and a cake with the family. No fuss.
As part of a company re-org last year this one guy got moved into the C-Suite and I now have to report to him and his arrogant ways.
His seems to be the only birthday that everyone in the office recognizes each year, and is complete with a birthday cake and candles, singing Happy Birthday, some applause and ‘group gifts’, and a seemingly endless email thread of well-wishes.
Yes, it does seem like one of the longer days of the year.
Being a coupon and discount whore, I totally love restaurants that give you free dessert on your birthday, especially the ones that will do this within a few days of your birthday (for those of you in central Iowa, yes I’m talking about Hickory Park). Even if they start singing to you when the dessert is brought to the table (which they usually do), getting a free dessert is worth it.
I tend to ignore mine, but we’ve gotten in the habit of ‘June birthday dinners’ and ‘February birthday dinners’ with some friends, so I suppose there is some sort of celebrating going on.
I celebrate my birthday by going to the gun range, shooting all my hollow points, and replacing them. Then I get a burger and a beer.
Don’t take this from me you killjoy.
Wait, does this mean it’s okay to pleasure myself on my birthday, or not?
I really hate birthday parties. Fixing an awesome dinner, popping a great bottle, yeah, that’s all I need.
You had a pretty decent time at my 60th, as I recall.
Hmmm, and at my 50th as well.
My 40th was at our usual Friday night spot in SoCal, but you were too lazy to come down for it. Vertical of Martha’s, courtesy of Dr. Steve.
I’m not so insecure that I need others to fete my aging. Unless they bring better bottles than I have, that is.
I frequently take my birthday off work but not to celebrate my birthday. I was born in mid October and my wife and I have a tradition where we take the day off and go on a leaf peeping tour. It is not about celebrating me, but about about us getting to spend an entire day with no kids just us being a couple. My birthday just happens to be a convienent excuse at the right time of year
“Leaf peeping”. Sounds kinky.
Today is mine, so they tell me.
If someone didn’t remind me I wouldn’t even notice. Then again the same is true about other people’s birthdays, anniversaries (which reminds me, mine is Monday. Good thing we are driving home…cuts down on the expectations ), holidays, and other supposedly significant dates.
My wife apparently got a pie and a something.
I told her “If you don’t do anything it won’t bother me one bit”
Her response (as her’s is in a few weeks) “I want you to acknowledge mine”
That reminds me, I need to deactivate my Facebook account for the day, otherwise I’ll have fifty “happy birthdays” in the morning.
I wonder what people will think when I vanish and suddenly reappear on the 25th.
This is what he has deemed to be more important than speaking out forcefully against our slow slide into fascism and institutional corruption.
Good gravy.
I keep hearing about us getting closer to fascism but I have yet to see the slightest evidence we are doing so. How do these people keep it up?
“Oh no, a tax cut and a reduction in business regulations, it’s Franco all over again.”
Sorry but America has been slowly sliding towards not exactly Fascism but something very akin to it for decades and both the left and the right keep moving the needle in that way. That said Trumo is not really any different from any other President in this respect and you are correct, the reduction in business regulations is actually a significant step away from the region of Fascism, however that is offset by the xenophobia, scapgoating of immigrants, and militarism
…we still face the same set of broad problems that afflicted our country a couple years back when Obama was still in office
– This, despite Obama having 8 years in office and every opportunity to do something about those problems. But let’s not go on arguing and bickering over who killed who.
No, Republicans blocked what would’ve been Obama’s utopia. Even for the two years that the Democrats controlled Congress.
I keep forgetting about how Obama and the Democrats approached the Republicans with a spirit of cooperation and good will, and the Republicans used their obstructionist powers to nix the whole thing. Even when the Dems controlled everything.
How many times have we said here Obama is a self-serving shithead and a faux-intellectual who talked out of his skinny ass?
Has there been a more over praised person in politics than this guy?
Yes. FDR.
TR, too
Teddy, like Andrew Jackson, was a legit badass whose presidency is among his least accomplishments.
AJ > TR when badassery is involved for being the only sitting President I can think of who had to be wrestled away from his attempted murderer.
(Note: “badass” does not mean “good or admirable person”)
+1 Rough Rider.
So….
1) FDR
2) Obama
3) TDR
?
Lincoln
JFK
JFK
RFK
Wilson
Yeah, I went to Woodrow Wilson elementary school and look how I turned out.
Racist war-monger?
Reagan. Big government asshole.
Hitler?
Hamilton Nolan needs an award of some kind. Right for all of the wrong reasons, and I mean all of them.
How are things going in Libya these days?
He cares about inequality, that’s why he is focusing on signing multimillion dollar deals.
Most of the people yammering the loudest about inequality are multimillionaires.
Do your bit to narrow the gap. Adopt a poor person and provide them a living wage with your own money!
If you can help or save one person…
Trust-fund millionaires at that.
I give you:
Justin Trudeau – Prime Minister.
Bill Morneau – Finance Minister.
I do it for you because there are people on this very board that (for some reason) actually prefer small tits.
I appreciate your benevolent gesture. I also noticed a refreshing lack of ink and hardware in most of those photos.
The only thing I’ve read by Roth is Portnoy. It was ok, nothing to write home about. I will say that for a book about some guy supposedly tortured by his insatiably kinky sexual appetite, it was surprisingly tame.
I always get Roth and Wolfe confused and now they are both dead, coincidence? At least we still have Updike.
for a book about some guy supposedly tortured by his insatiably kinky sexual appetite, it was surprisingly tame.
I think I read it in the mid-70s, when much of the sex world was still pretty unspoken, and it did seem edgy at the time, probably even more so when it was written in the 60s. I would guess in a world with millisecond access to internet porn, it hasn’t aged well.
Did you read it more recently or way back when?
Didn’t that happen at the Waco biker thing too?
Memoryholed.
I’ve mentioned my annoyance with people who stop in the middle of the road or boulevard to let someone in ESPECIALLY where there’s two-way traffic because the driver on the oncoming side of traffic doesn’t know and can’t guess the other is inventing their own rules of the road by stopping. It’s dangerous.
And so on the way to work I saw the same stupid bull shit and lo and behold the oncoming car almost hit the one that was let in by an idiot who stopped.
As far as I’m concerned, if there was an accident, the person who stopped to let the person in (aside from being inconsiderate about the traffic in the opposite direction) bears some responsibility.
I hate when people stop to let me turn. It’s dangerous, and has the added pressure of the expectation that you turn soon for their convenience and be grateful for being pressured towards risking your hide in the other lanes that they are now blocking your view of!
Car ahead of me did that on a roundabout yesterday. Gave them a blast of the horn.
That’s flat out suicidal. The guy behind you in the roundabout is looking left for a space to enter. If you stop in the circle they’re likely to not even see you.
In Maryland, it is my understanding that the driver who let the other driver in would indeed be at least partially responsible. At least that’s what I’ve been told by a local defense attorney.
That would make sense.
The primary responsibility of a driver is to keep the flow of traffic going. You can’t stop willy-nilly.
I always wave people forward when they stop. I don’t want to be part of an accident. I’ll patiently wait.
Reminds me of when I ran, I was amazed at how many motorists think you really want to run out in front of them when they have the right of way.
“yeah I’ll just jog in place here instead of putting my meatbag in front of your several tons of steel, go ahead a wave me across all you want.”
If they’re on the median, I’ll stop. If they’re on the curb, I won’t.
Similar is people stopping in the middle of a highway to make sure some animals get across in one piece. Even worse when they put the car in park and get out to usher them across. Seems like there’s a story like this once a year or so.
I felt really bad for the turtle I saw trying to cross the road the other day, but sorry Donatello, I ain’t stopping on a blind 50mph curve to pick you up and take you home. Have fun in the next life.
The only time I stopped in the middle of the road for something was for a wooden fruit box. That was a legit road hazard (and is still a great magazine bin to this day)
Lately, people around here are stopping for funeral processions going the other way, I crested a blind hill on a 55mpg state route only to find several cars at a standstill because a funeral was turning into the cemetery on the other side of the road. I barely stopped in time, If a car had been behind me he would have rear-ended me.
Where I live they have these funeral escort cars complete with faux-cop lights on the roof. They come flying up to an intersection, stop in the middle and block all the traffic until all the cars in the procession get through.
They do that here, It is the stopping on straight-a-ways when the funeral is going the opposite direction that’s new. In this case, since the funeral was turning off the road to the right down at the bottom of the dale, I had no idea there was any reason for stopped traffic until I crested the hill.
Was driving home close to rush hour on I435 around Kansas City on day. Three or four lanes, with an unexpected back up. When I got to that point, there was some guy stopped in the middle lane, waiting to cut across the inside lane to get to an exit ramp.
About stopping for animals. Here you go.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/emma-czornobaj-loses-appeal-1.4152387
My new pet peeve is guys in huge trucks or SUVs making everyone in the parking lot wait while they struggle to back into a parking space.
Dudes, really, why do you need to do this? I know you are so happy at how easy it is to leave the parking spot later, but you are taking ten times more time to park in the first place now than just pulling in — and it’s harder to back into a parking spot than it is to back out of it. So why??? Are you robbing the mall so will need the quickest getaway possible? Or did you never do the math at the total time negotiating this parking spot, both in and out, and only think of the ‘out’ part?
Yeah, that shit is annoying. I too like to have the front of my truck facing the aisle, but I park far enough from the door that I just drive through one empty spot into the one adjoining it.
I always combat park, but my truck is always way, way, way far away from other people.
/hates door dings
this is a requirement at a bunch of companies to always back their work trucks in (I know for certain it is for Verizon, Centurylink and AT&T)
something about you’re less likely to hit a pedestrian in a parking lot doing it this way.
And they never know how to use their mirrors. It’s really not that hard – that’s why the mirrors are there!
It’s called the Death wave by Insurers
You all need to stay out of Idaho. Your heads will explode. And the PRK refugees are ready to go postal because everybody should drive like they do in California.
Let the ritual kicking of the corpse begin!
Classy, classy people. Yet somehow I have a feeling Roth would have a hearty chuckle at “Only a chronic masturbator would think he deserved a Nobel.”
This is a ritual that makes sense. You don’t want to wonder if the guy you just buried was really dead.
No one should even know you have a birthday.
My policy, exactly.
^^This^^
The only people who know when my birthday is are my siblings. That’s it.
For my fellow EU4 and CK2 players, any other Byzantoweebs and also Juvenile Bluster, I present the greatest Evangelion opening mashup of all time.
lul
amusing: Wynton Marsalis on hip hop
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/mar/02/jazz
***
“Listen, I don’t have to attack hip-hop. Hip-hop attacks itself. It has no merit, rhythmically, musically, lyrically. What is there to discuss?”
Flow? Rhymes? Assonance? Scansion? Lyrical dexterity? Rhythmic complexity? The use of samples that explore African-American musical history?
“Yeah yeah,” he snorts. “It’s mostly sung in triplets. So what? And as for sampling, it just shows you that the drummer has been replaced by a loop. The drum – the central instrument in African-American music, the sound of freedom – has been replaced by a repetitive loop. What does that tell you about hip-hop’s respect for African-American tradition?”
***
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Aren’t these the same objections that cultural conservatives made about jazz 70 or 80 years ago?
“How does objecting to hip-hop make me a conservative?” he yells, his gruff holler getting louder and angrier. “Is it OK to call me a nigger and your wife a bitch? If I object to that then I’m a conservative? That is ridiculous!”
***
De gustibus, etc. But I agree with his take.
It couldn’t possibly be that the older objections were wrong and the present-day objections were right. It’s no good exploring the merits of each case. No, just look at who’s making the claim and stop there.
I saw him speak at Harvard a few months back – he’s great.
I’ve mentioned my annoyance with people who stop in the middle of the road or boulevard to let someone in ESPECIALLY where there’s two-way traffic because the driver on the oncoming side of traffic doesn’t know and can’t guess the other is inventing their own rules of the road by stopping. It’s dangerous.
IF traffic is STOPPED (like for a red light) I will gladly let somebody pull out from a parking lot or side street, or turn left in front of me. Just randomly stopping to be a “nice guy”? No.
Some people think government is all there is. Oh Please, Barack, save us from this wicked man. Jesus, get a life.
Excellent lynx. And an homage to Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!.
The only thing better would be if the hot chick in the office brought me a cold beer.
*waits*
OK, lynx it is!
I still haven’t seen that movie.
http://5newsonline.com/2018/05/23/midair-battle-between-fox-and-eagle-over-rabbit-caught-on-video/
Eagles are the dolphins of the skies.
Foxes are the eagles of the ground.
That was amazing. Curious. Why didn’t the Eagle take the fox too?
Too heavy. Eagle-bro doesn’t even lift.
It’s a simple question of weight ratios!
Carnivores generally don’t eat carnivores. Professional Curtesy.
Badass little Dog!
/still a Dog I know…….
I see Ontario might go even more retarded in the next election. So is Ontario Canada’s California? Or is that BC?
Given that our NDPer is less extreme than their Liberal Premier (who had multiple election victories), Ontario is Canada’s California AND NY State and DC all rolled into one.
Since John Titor isn’t here, I’ll add the obligatory “But it’s just Ottawa, it’s not Ontario! Also Tornto. Hamilton. Mississauga. Well most urban areas with overwhelming majority of population. BUT NOT TRUE ONTARIO!”
Reminds of how Cytotoxic said that Canada’s provincial Liberal parties are actually almost “classically liberal” or that he thought that Turdeau jr. was some sort of libertarian for a while.
What has happened to Titor? How well is his attempt to bring the Liberals to their classical liberal roots going?
Calling Heroic Mulatto…
There is *some* truth to the provincial liberals being a tad less retard but not sure anymore.
As for Canada’s California: Ontario hands down. Quebec is up there too but reading what goes on in California, not even the fricken PQ are as insane as the Democrats there.
Maybe in places like BC where they are essentially a coalition with the Conservatives in competition with the NDP or in Saskatchewan and Manitoba where they are a third party with NDP governments or in Maritimes were they are smaller populations and economies.
I mean Saskatchewan and Manitoba have had NDP governments quite a bit in their past…
They should merge. Saskatoba!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Buffalo
I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t know this – or may have come across it and forgotten.
I don’t seem to recall history books mentioning it.
Because it makes Laurier look bad? He made sure that by creating Alberta and Saskatchewan he would have two Liberal provinces are opposed to one Conservative and they would smaller than Ontario and Quebec.
He also ensured that both provinces would have Liberal governments and gerrymandering assembly seats. This worked for a while as Alberta was a Liberal stronghold until 1921 and Saskatchewan was Liberal until Tommy Douglas came around in 1944.
Well it worked at a Federal level as the Liberals did indeed become the country’s ‘natural governing party’ in the 20th century.
Now we have puff mimbo who should be asking if you need fries with that running our country.
Interestingly the Alberta Liberals high point since 1921 was in 1993 when they campaigned on spending cuts but the PCs won and cut spending which the Liberals opposed and they never really recovered.
Not only that but they complained that the PCs promises to cut spending in 1993 were either lies or hypocrisy…
Isn’t that how it works for everyone?
Gustave Lytton was complaining about TCM’s FDR fellating. Funny thing is TCM is heavily based on Warner Bros. and back in the day they engaged in pretty blatant FDR fellating. See 42nd Street or Footlight Parade for two most famous examples.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC1mabrcIOc
Anyone else getting blasted with Democrat ads in their snail mailbox every day? I have 3 democrats all trying to get my vote by putting a picture of an AR-15 side by side with a picture of some exotic lizard, with an arrow pointing to the AR-15 that says “LEGAL” and an arrow pointing to the lizard that says “ILLEGAL.”
I also got one that had a picture of a rocket launcher, claiming that my Republican rep introduced/endorsed a bill that would make them legal. I don’t think they realize that I would love to own a rocket launcher.
I’m also getting DNC volunteers canvasing my area and knocking on my door at dinner time. Literally every single pitch I’ve gotten has been about guns, reasonable restrictions on guns, and how Republicans want to restore my constitutional right to own explosives. They’re not even bothering with any other issues. It’s the D.C. suburbs people, its not like gun violence is a huge issue here.
Stop answering your door.
I did! They just put the damn fliers in your door handle.
Open the door with a gun.
They won’t be back.
So, is there a bill pending that would legalize rocket launchers? If so, I’ll donate to the Rep’s re-election campaign.
And, what’s the deal with the lizard? Where did that come from?
According to the ad, yes. But of course I take that with a huge grain of salt. As for the lizard ad, it had a line underneath the pictures that said “Yeah, it doesn’t make sense to Jennifer Wexton* either!”
*I can’t remember which of the 3 this ad came from, but Wexton pops into my head.
I agree with Jennifer Wexton. Why aren’t those lizards legal?
Last time I was in Florida, there were disgusting lizards everywhere.
Nothing here, but we’re in PWC, a town of 300, and you can hear the folks on the horse ranches shooting in the evenings and weekends. Some intern would probably piss themselves walking through my neighborhood.
Sometimes I wish I lived in a place more like where you live, but then I remember the horrifying traffic I’d have to deal with every day. It’s not worth it, trshmnster, not even for the best trash in the world.
We have the best trash, all kinds of trash, old trash, new trash, smelly trash, rotting trash. It’s time to make trash great again!
(we need to grab a beer again soon! Also, we should do a DMV Glibs meetup at libertarian happy hour at Clarendon grill on a Thursday night)
Yes we should totally meet up again soon. June would be great for that. I’m so down for a glib meetup too.
Democrats rarely venture into Warren County, NJ. We’re the Alabama of New Jersey.
LOL. Knowing Warren County, there’s a lot truth there.
have 3 democrats all trying to get my vote by putting a picture of an AR-15 side by side with a picture of some exotic lizard, with an arrow pointing to the AR-15 that says “LEGAL” and an arrow pointing to the lizard that says “ILLEGAL.”
Wow, Mr Lizard really needs to have a word with Infiltration and Propaganda Department, they’re not even trying…
If I had a rocket launcher, some sonofabitch would die.
True.
Not for values of “we” that include anyone who is not an idiot. This society is notably free from both these things, compared to both our current peers and historical experience. Naturally, people who make money from racism or sexism are still trying to whip it up, as are those poor damaged souls who need it as an excuse for their own failures. But that is a long way from “we” as a whole.
The institutions being pulled apart at the seams aren’t suffering from economic inequality, they are suffering from people who make money from racism or sexism and those poor damaged souls who need it as an excuse for their own failures.
I’m always amazed that whenever I think of a neat little invention, I google it to find out it already exists.
Capitalism is truly incredible.
For years I’ve wanted to build a subscription or pay web site. I’ve got the skills to build one but it seems like every time I have an idea for one, I google it and find at least 3 doing the same thing.
There are more than three gas stations in the world.
Yep. You just need a good hook.
Build the Dollar Shave Club version of __________.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogernomics
Interesting how New Zealand’s supposed libertopia was in many started by Labour and their current leader now claims “capitalism is a failure”
Modest free market reforms were also instituted in Australia under a Labour government at a time when the prime minister was a former head of the national union organization.
The “neoliberal” moment wasn’t as strong as the cosmos hoped. See Turdeau Jr., Wynne, Ardern, Ozzie Labor, Corbyn or the Dems…
Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams became the first black female candidate to win a major party primary for governor on Tuesday. Sounds good. I’m sure she’ll be reaching across the proverbial aisles in the general election… er, no.
Democrat Candidate for Reparations to Blacks and Free College for All Wins Georgia Primary for Governor
I’m going to guess that whiteys will be all racist and vote for their best interests in the general.
Just more evidence of what I’ve posted about several times over the last couple of weeks. Democrats are electing far left candidates for the general election, where all of them will lose. Signaling is easy, there’s no cost to it. However, voting in crazy loons who want to hike your taxes and put in place crazy socialist programs that will break the bank and make everything worse at the same time, that right here is not so cost free.
It’s pretty funny how dumb they are. Literally flying off the cliff to the left.
I’m going to make another bold prediction, since I just keep getting them right. When they lose more seats in Nov, they’ll conclude that it’s because they didn’t go far enough left and then move further left. Free everything and it won’t cost a dime!
Obligatory
Not helped by the fact that the far left areas are the safest districts and in turn where the leadership comes from…
i’m afraid you are too optimistic. My congressional district is represented by a moderate Republican. He is retiring. The GOP primary was won by a man more conservative than him. The Dem primary was won by a woman more proggy than the woman the incumbent beat last time. All the polls are showing an easy victory for the proggy, because the suburban women are not enamored of the guy in the White House.
Sounds like you need to do a lot of mansplaining.
Sounds like you need to do a lot of mansplaining
…with his penis.
“We still have an unconscionably high prison population.”
And the reason is the same old reason it’s been throughout history. People do not tend to care about things that do not affect them personally. The drug war is totally swell because I don’t do drugs.
I need a scuba suit to get through all of this slobber.
ffs its like he still doesn’t realize, after a decade, that the fucking guy was and is *just a fucking politician*, and that his only goal was to attain power for its own sake. you think the guy wanted to help the poor or some shit? yeah, he’ll get right on that, sometime between golf in Palm Springs and his million$ speaking engagement @ KKR
Is Obama donating some of his $65 million? I mean, at some point how much is enough as he once said, right?
Rufus: Hey Obama, how about some money to fight the wage gap?
Obama: Fuck you, I earned my money. It’s mine.
Rufus: Not cool, man. It used to be about the narrative man!
Fucken hypocritical shithead.
He didn’t build that.
He’ll do just enough progging to keep his money machine going. Even Princess Di, who essentially traded her time for free designer duds, lavish hotel suites, and sumptuous charity events, was more charitable than this guy is going to be.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/02/socialism-young-americans-bernie-sanders
It’s fairly old, but new to me. And Jeebus, I think I found the mother load of dreck.
“how young Americans fell in love with socialism”
Young people in this country don’t know what the fuck socialism is. If they did, they’d fall out of love really quickly. I can give them a quick lesson:
‘That your new iPhone there?, man that sure is awesome’
‘Yeah, I paid $800 for this!’
*Quickly snatches phone from youth’s hand* ‘Sorry, but your neighbor doesn’t have one of those, I’m going to have to redistribute that, because equality’.
How can you fall in love with an ideology? Let alone a murderous one that sucks the life out of the human spirit?
Two words. Public School.
Envy is a strong emotion that could be mistaken for love.
Exactly this. They don’t have an understanding of what it means in practice. Upon first contact with it they recoil in disbelief.
You can see just how uneducated they are about these things from a recent article citing a poll which was done about single payer healthcare and free college. Sorry I can’t remember where this was now. Anyway, millennials were those polled and the questions were things like ‘do you approve of socialized healthcare’ and how much are you willing to pay for it?
The answers were quite telling. They mostly approved of free shit. But how much they were willing to pay was a complete departure from reality. The avg was they’d pay $100 a month for free healthcare. No, you’ll pay half your fucking income and be glad when they even let you get a treatment you need. Public school along with our MSM need nuked from space and the ashes incinerated. There’s no fucking excuse for young people to be this dumbed down in the richest nation on the planet.
Half seems a tad excessive.
I think in Canada it comes out to call it $6000 per year. Still, six grand is a shit load.
http://nationalpost.com/health/how-much-does-the-average-canadian-pay-for-public-health
“Adam Smith has been unable to find a job since a video he made in protest of Chick-Fil-A went viral.”
Tell you one thing, Chick-Fil-A sure as hell won that battle, bigly. Appears people even care more about a good chicken sammich than they do signaling.
Back when chick-fil-a was all in the news about being anti gay or something like that, a group of people decided to protest one that I pass on my way to work.
There was maybe a half dozen protestors. The drive through window was backed up into the road and the parking lot was full.
There’s one near one of my clients that I sometimes visit with co-worker for lunch. That place is always packed.
Just like with Starbucks, the people who protest don’t have any fucking money because they don’t work because they’re too busy out protesting.
Companies that cave to SJWs get what they deserve. I listen to my customers, period.
Yep, just like the NFL. You have to wonder just how stupid a business has to piss off their lifetime customers to kowtow to a bunch of griefers who are not and who will never be their customers. Now they’re fucking desperate, it’s hilarious.
same thing with the comic book companies and videogame industry to chase after a demographic that hasn’t ever been their primary customer base
I don’t wish to downplay the stupidity of the NFL & I agree with your point that most of the people who jumped on the Kapernick bandwagon had little interest in the NFL. BUT, all those stadium deals, monopoly protection, non-profit status probably causes them to think hard about pissing off politicians. As I understand things, there’s an act of Congress which defines the NFL as a non-profit. Congress could revoke that.
I thought they did. It’s worth noting that the teams are for profit. Just the league that isn’t.
I was vegetarian when I lived in Atlanta, so I never ate their chicken sandwiches. But damn, their waffle fries were good.
I find it odd that someone would rant about and try do destroy a business based on that groups the owner donates to and the fact that they give their emplyees Sundays off.
Sundays off is like slavery, only worse.
They make damn good chicken sandwiches.
Isn’t the chicken and the fries cooked in the same oil? Uh huh, you were eating chicken waffle fries.
Groveling never works. Chick-Fil-A is a prime example. So is the girl with the Chinese prom dress.
Throw in the Donald and you got a shitlord trifecta.
“Bill Nye: Taxing Cow Farts a ‘Fantastic Thing for the World’
Netflix host “Science Guy” Bill Nye has a new solution for the world’s environmental problems: taxing cow farts.
“Well, this is what we can do and it’s a win-win: to have a fee on carbon. So if you are raising livestock and producing a lot of carbon dioxide with your farm equipment and the exhaust from the animals, then you would pay a fee on that and it would be reflected in the price of meat, reflected in the price of fish, reflected in the price of peanuts,” Bill Nye said in a recent interview with the Daily Beast.
“This would be a free-market way to reckon the real cost of a meat diet to the world,” Nye continued. “But conservatives now are against such a thing because they’re against any regulation, any tax or any government involvement in anything. But again, it won’t last, and a carbon fee would be a fantastic thing for the world.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/05/21/bill-nye-taxing-cow-farts-a-fantastic-thing-for-the-world/
TW: Brietbart
“The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) posted a video to YouTube on Thursday with Bill Nye ‘The Science Guy,’ discussing whether “climate deniers” and energy CEOs should be jailed like war criminals.
“We’ll see what happens, was it appropriate to jail the guys at Enron?” Nye asked. “Was it appropriate to jail people from the cigarette industry who insisted that this addictive product was not addictive?”
“For me, as a taxpayer and voter, the introduction of this extreme doubt about climate change is affecting my quality of life as a public citizen,” he continued. “So I can see where people are very concerned about this and are pursuing criminal investigations as well as in engaging in discussions like this.”
Apparently science is not a field for challenging accepted thought, but rather one that encourages indoctrination and jailing of all those who dissent.”
http://redalertpolitics.com/2016/04/14/bill-nye-throw-climate-deniers-jail-video/
A modern day Lysenko wannabe.
Exactly how does one go from being a beloved host of a children’s show about science, to an angry commie fuckwit?
Presumably he was always and angry commie fuckwit, it just wasn’t a full-time job before.
Tell you what Bill, how about we jail assholes that overstate the amount of global warming and cause public panics and massive misallocations of tax dollars?
Are we taxing gasbags now? If so, Nye should be paying triple the normal rate.
For whom? Not the consumers.
It’s a win/win for green scam assholes. Let’s just investigate some into exactly where Bill Nye the not so science guy might have some money invested. He always looks mad, just like all commie scum.
I’m in favor of mandatory pilot lights to be located next to the asshole of every cow. We can burn all those cow farts and save the world.
I thought they did. It’s worth noting that the teams are for profit. Just the league that isn’t/wasn’t.
“In Swedish pre-schools, there are no boys or girls, just friends
STOCKHOLM • Something was wrong with the Penguins, the incoming class of toddlers at the Seafarer’s Pre-school, in a wooded suburb south of Stockholm.
The boys were clamorous and physical. The girls held up their arms and whimpered to be picked up. The group of one-and two-year-olds had, in other words, split along traditional gender lines.
And at this school, that is not OK.
Their teachers cleared the room of cars and dolls. They put the boys in charge of the play kitchen. They made the girls practise shouting “No!” Then they decided to open a proper investigation, erecting video cameras in the classroom.
Science may still be divided over whether gender differences are rooted in biology or culture, but many of Sweden’s government-funded pre-schools are doing what they can to deconstruct them. State curriculum urges teachers and principals to embrace their role as social engineers, requiring them to “counteract traditional gender roles and gender patterns”. It is normal, in many Swedish pre-schools, for teachers to avoid referring to their pupils’ gender – instead of “boys and girls”, they say “friends”, or call children by name. Play is organised to prevent children from sorting themselves by gender.”
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/in-swedish-pre-schools-there-are-no-boys-or-girls-just-friends
Brink Lindsey and Will Wilkerson are fapping over this…
Gee, I really want to move there, the USA is not batshit crazy woke enough yet.
Home you protect your women and like grenade explosions…
I… what?
*Hope*
I was referring to Sweden’s rising crime…
The edit ferry might run aground trying to fix this one.
If they’re all “friends”, why would they need to do this?
It’s like this, if it were possible to explain human nature to these insane nutjobs. When kids reach a certain age and they are forced into the same environment, they split up into little tribes, one boy tribe and one girl tribe. Both tribes do not trust the other tribe because they’re different, weird, and even icky. That lasts until the girls start developing curves and the boy tribe starts to notice that hey, they are different, but interesting. That’s when the tribes start to break up into individuals. This is actually beautiful in it’s own way and anyone who wants to end it is a shitty poop head.
That’s not going to end well.
Sure it is, they’re building the new Soviet man, it’s going to work this time!
So what are they going to do when they hit puberty? Administer hormones to even it out?
If the kids are self seperating in the face of opposition to the practice, don’t you think it indicates that maybe there are some natural processes at work?
These people are fuckwits.
STOP GIVING THEM IDEAS
I was listening to some bug fuck nutty bat shit crazy feminist on NPR the other day. She told a story about how she bought her young daughter some toy trucks and showed her how to play with them- vroom, vroom and so on. As soon as she left her daughter alone, the daughter arranged the trucks and said “OK, this is the daddy truck, and this is the mommy truck, and this is the baby truck.”
The feminist was crestfallen.
http://www.angelagarbes.com/
This windowlicker told a story about how he lit candles next to her feet because that was some ancient Chinese remedy to flip a baby in utero into the proper position.
Party of science, my ass.
Why do I listen to NPR? Every time I do, I feel like I’m about to stroke out.
But muh paytreearkie!!!
Stossel attempts to reason with feminists, hilarity ensues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTEPr4n_skI
Hey morons- even boy *monkeys* like to play with trucks and girl *monkeys* like to play with dolls.
Dammit, derpy was faster to the monkey business than I was.
derp minds think alike
So you’re saying we should organize our society along the lines of the
lobstersmonkeys?+1/2 statue of liberty in the sand
We’ve been flinging poo on the internet for 15 years. Why not?
How long do you think it will be before the Democrats adopt China’s social credit score as part of their official platform? I don’t even give them until the midterms before it happens.
Scores can be gamed.
Screeching mobs pretending to be much larger than they actually are are far more effective, especially when they have collaborators on the inside.
I distinctly remember the protests against the first Gulf War when I was in college. At one in particular there were approximately 100 people there. The TV crews and newspapers deliberately framed the shots to make it appear that there were many hundreds more.
How long afterwards will bad people like us be bragging about how low our scores are?
Black Mirror already did it.
Where’s WAC Bennett and Bible Bill Aberhart when you need them?
Dead, thank God for small mercies.
“NEW — Federal Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in New York says @realDonaldTrump can NOT block people on Twitter. (via @ByronTau)”
https://twitter.com/jiveDurkey/status/999333898810200064
That can’t be real?
“Trump can’t block Twitter followers: Federal judge
President Trump cannot cannot block people from his Twitter accounts, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, declaring his longtime account @realDonaldTrump a First Amendment forum that he, as a government official, cannot deny access to.
In particularly, Mr. Trump cannot stop people from responding to his tweets, ruled Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald, a Clinton appointee, in a groundbreaking ruling that tests the legal limits of what major political figures can do on social media.
The judge said Twitter meets the Supreme Court’s definitions for a “designated public forum,” and preventing people from being able to respond to or comment on his proclamations via tweet based on their antipathy to the president violates the First Amendment.
“The blocking of the individual plaintiffs from the @realDonaldTrump account because of their expressed political views violates the First Amendment,” she wrote.
But the judge said she wouldn’t order Mr. Trump and his top social media guru, Dan Scavino, to change their behavior, saying she didn’t want to get into a separation of powers battle. Instead, she said, she was confident they would “remedy the blocking we have held to be unconstitutional.””
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/23/trump-cant-block-twitter-followers-federal-judge/
SMDH
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_(legal)
So the judge has nationalized Twitter by fiat?!?!?
It looks like you know the law better than the judge does.
It’s effing absurd. You’re also not permitted to cold call Trump if you somehow lucked into getting his phone number. You’re allowed to shout at the White House from Pennsylvania Avenue like a lunatic, but you’re not permitted to shout at the President in the Oval Office while he eats Doritos. Does that mean he’s censoring you? There’s nothing preventing those blocked from inspecting his tweets.
Disgraceful, ill-considered, partisan verdict.
I should specify by not permitted I mean it’s not a protected right and is subject to curtailment.
Interesting theme I have seen from a lot of old movies and books was how damn judgemental small town America is; depending on the political winds of course. In theory in the old days if you an atheist, slut or homosexual, etc. you could avoid ostracism by moving out of town to a big city. These days of course complete strangers from all over the world can now ostracize you.
Have you ever actually lived in small town America way back then, I mean like the 70s, 80s, or earlier? I can tell you firsthand how judgmental they could be. I’m not saying everyone was like that, but a lot of people were. I’m talking about the ‘We don’t take kindly to the likes of you round these here parts’. I remember in the 90s when I had went on a business related trip with a friend. For some reason he decided to stop at this uber podunk middle of nowhere diner for lunch. He looked pretty much the part, but me, I had long hair. So sure enough we went in and I swear everyone in there were staring at me. The waitress comes over, takes our order and afterwards brings back his food, but not mine. So he called her over and reminded her. I had ordered a cheeseburger with this and that on it, and fries. I repeated it again and a little later, she brings me a plain hamburger, but no fries. My friend started to call her over again, but I told him to forget it. She brings us separate checks and on the back of mine was written ‘Jesus loves you’. Only on mine. Jesus, I’d like a fucking cheeseburger with pickles and fries, thank you.
I grew up in a small town in the 70s. My mom still lives there for reasons I can’t understand. Same story. The place seems to be a voluntary insane asylum for closed-minded morons.
So how come the big cities aren’t live and let live libertopias?
People are shitheads, no matter the setting. The more insular their surroundings, the more obvious it is.
For the same reason Republicans and Democrats are both useless: they’re still authoritarians. They only disagree on what they want to control about your behavior.
Anyway I was talking about social media mobs that you can’t get away from since in the past you could get away from smalltown parochialism by moving…
What’s so hard about getting away from social media mobs? I can’t think of an easier thing to avoid.
The hard part isn’t getting away yourself, it’s avoiding the repercussions associated with your employer, your friends, and your neighbors not getting away.
I haven’t had any issues in my city. It’s pretty live and let live minus a terrorist attack.
What city is that?
Orlando
Explain Darren Soto then…
My town is pretty live and let live, too. The church choir leader lives across from the gay couple, who live next to the Vietnamese bootlegger (moonshine), who lives across the street from the hippie with the rainbow flag and Christmas light peace sign and live-in millennial adult kids. A couple houses over is a biracial family whose house looks like an episode of hoarders. Next to them is some libertarian douche who hardly ever mows his lawn and let’s his gaggle of cats out of the basement each morning to terrorize the local songbirds. Everybody is pretty tight with one another and doesn’t really pry.
You live on the set of a Norman Lear Production?
It’s why I made the comments I did about small towns when I did my post on “The Firemen’s Ball” a few weeks back.
This seems appropriate.
But … Jesus had long hair!!
That sounds like a bad movie script.
The whole debate with Jordan Peterson and Michael Dyson included something very interesting: Peterson asked Dyson to quantify how much of his success was due to white privilege. Dyson claimed that white privilege isn’t quantifiable. Very convincing…
I love the smell of tomato plants for some reason. I just noticed I have about a dozen baby cherry tomatoes on and just picked my first 3 jalapenos from the one jalapeno plant i had inside all year. There are a ton of new blooms on that plant and my 4 tomato plants are loaded with blooms also. My tomato and pepper plants newly sprouted almost drowned yesterday when I had left them outside unprotected and there was a downpour. Look like they’ll survive, or most of them. I’m moving out of this apt and getting a house with some yard next year so I can do some more serious gardening.
Me too. I love the smell of the plants and sun-warmed ripe tomatoes.
I love the smell of tomato plants too! My wife hates it. When I come inside from trimming the plants the first thing I hear is, “Wash your hands!”
They’re all at least a 4 crazy. Mine might be a 5.
Thank God it’s not just me, I’m not some weird tomato fetish freak! Iv’e actually been like that since I was a little kid though. I remember walking through my grandmothers garden and touching the leaves as I went by just because I love that smell.
I also used to go out there with a shaker of salt and eat those yellow pear peppers right off the vine with some salt.
Yes! I also have some onions I pluck out of the ground and eat right then and there.
I have 47 tomato plants in my garden right now. It won’t be long and I’ll be up to my ears in tomatoes. I’m looking forward to it.
I plant 3 plants and end up letting over half the crop rot on the ground. Even if you can that seems like an insane amount of maters.
There’s never too many maters.
Huh, seems every year one of my friends decides to go big on tomatoes, they always overplant and spend the late summer carrying around sacks of tomatoes to give to the rest of us who prudently only planted two or three plants and don’t need your rejected produce thank you very much.
If you were talking Zucchini, I would agree. I remember when I was a young, 20 something owning my first home and I had decided I needed to grow a big garden. I remember I was out planting in my newly tilled garden and one of my hillbilly neighbors came over to check me out. He asked what I’m planting now and I said Zucchini. He looks at the row I’m in and says ‘How many zucchini did you plant’? And I was like ‘this whole row man!’. He just started laughing and I said ‘What’s so funny’? And then the smart ass asked me how many times a day I want him to come over with his truck to haul off the spoiled zucchini. He says ‘You growing zucchini for the entire state, son?’, har har har. Fuck, this dumb redneck was surely wrong. That’s the last fucking time I ever planted more than one hill of zucchini. The stuff gives a new meaning to prolific.
Nobody even likes zucchini. I don’t know why anyone grows it. I grow squash because it’s delicious. If I wanted a squash that didn’t taste good, then I’d plant zucchini.
Back in the 70s when I was first going to post-secondary, I befriended a guy from rural Alberta who told me a story about zucchinis.
Small towns back then were quite laid-back, and no-one ever locked their car doors when they were on the main street of any town. Except during zucchini season.
The reason? If you left your car door unlocked to run a few errands, by the time you got back there’d be several boxes of zucchinis in the back seat.
That’s TRUE! a friend of mine is part of a community garden. Someone was complaining about somebody stealing produce. When they said somebody stole zucchini, everyone knew it wasn’t a person, had to be squirrels. Nobody steals zucchini.
Gallons of pasta sauce!
For real.
Yes. That and salsa. I’ll can several dozen quarts of salsa and make gallons of pasta sauce.
Sad thing is, it will all be gone halfway through fall. There is no such thing as too many tomatoes.
I make fresh salsa a gallon at a time, and even with only me and my wife, a gallon lasts 2-3 days at best. and yes you can freeze it. I did it all of the time when I had a big garden and so did other people I knew then. Just put it in gallon size plastic bags. The only ingredients I didn’t have fresh were limes and cilantro. I’ve never had any luck growing cilantro because it bolts so quickly in hot weather. I will probably try it under lights next year. Limes of course, in the northern hemisphere, I obviously am not growing them, at least not in the mid-Atlantic.
When I have salsa, I will eat it on eggs daily. I go through a lot that way.
“When I have salsa, I will eat it on eggs daily. I go through a lot that way.”
My wife likes to put my salsa on eggs to make omelets. I really hate that and asked her to stop doing it for me.
Damn straight. If I had access to that many tomatoes, I’d be freezing up bags of sauce like crazy.
I’m jealous. But next year I shall fix this gardening failure of mine. I always had a big garden before I became and apt dweller for nearly a decade, but still managed to grow tomatoes and peppers every year. Next year, I’m going big, even though I’m going to get a late start. I’m planning to also start up some banks of LED lights to do year round tomatoes.
I have been thinking about building a greenhouse for several years now. I don’t know when I’ll get around to it, I have a lot of other things to accomplish first, but I will have a great big nice green house one of these days.
I want one. You can get a big jump on the growing season with one and also extend it. LEDs might provide the same advantage as long as you have room indoors.
My neibor and I converted a old shed he had into a makeshift green house with a sawsall, cheap 2×4 framing, insulation, and plexiglass sheets. He was growing tomatoes and peppers in Feb-march.
normally I’m a live and let live kind of guy, but
If you don’t like the smell of tomato plants, we can’t be friends.
Another day, another man released after a few decades in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. And again, a case of the cops deciding who was guilty, and fitting the evidence to make that person guilty.
And of course, this means that the real perpetrator escaped justice, and probably raped a few more women, because the police couldn’t actually do their goddamn jobs.
They have zero incentive to catch the actual perpetrator, but they do have incentive to convict someone. Anyone will do.
lol. That millennial being evicted by his parents in NY made the news here. He sounds like he needs some serious manning up to do.
I’m a male adult muppet and have a bigger pipi than that guy.
*debates linking the gif of Oscar with the half-naked puppeteer*
*figures that those so inclined can search for it*
Parents sound like a couple of douches too. Are there no locksmiths in NY?
Given that the kid is a litigious asshole, they probably wanted to do it the “right” way.
This. That kid would be suing his parents for not giving him enough free shit an hour later.
Now he’s going to run for public office as a Democrat, because that’s the sort of guy we need as a leader. I wonder if he has some posters of Bernie?
I suspect he has blow-up dolls of Bernie.
I moved out when I turned 18, the same day. I wasn’t too responsible at first and was lucky that I had grandparents I could call up when I got into financial trouble. Now I realize how much better off I was after they started to tell me no. That’s when I started to grow up and become more responsible. They should have cut me off sooner, I would have been better off, sooner.
“Inappropriate Child Drawings“
lol
Also, this.
Apparently Mommy works at Home Depot and mentioned to her daughter one day that after a snow storm she had sold all the shovels. But that’s not really what the drawing looks like.
It was hoes she was selling, not shovels.
Every time Home Depot is mentioned, I think about one time I went into Home Depot to try to get a part for my water heater. The girl behind the counter at customer service, man I’m thinking that is one ugly woman, she had the face of a bulldog. Then she asked me to follow her so we could look for the part. She had one of the best asses I have ever seen on a woman, I’m serious. When we got back after she found me the part, she started chatting with me. I seriously wanted to ask her out, but I also wanted to ask her if she could turn around so I could ask her a question, lol. Yes, I’m awful, terrible person.
Eagles star Malcolm Jenkins is claiming NFL is violating his constitutional right to speak out against racial inequality by possibly fining him for raising his fist during the national anthem. I personally don’t care if he “respects the national anthem” or not. My patriotism is not threatened by what some boorish football player does or doesn’t do. I wonder if Mr. Jenkins would feel the same about constitutional rights if some employee of his served customers while wearing a “HIllary Sucks Huma Pussy” shirt, or prominently displaying a MAGA button?
Or refused to wear pink during breast cancer awareness month.
Where did these fuckers get the idea that they have a right to use their employers forum to spout their personal opinions?
They’re so annoying.
Do people have a constitutional right at work to bust their colleagues over politics?
See how that works out for the average person.
Protest on your own time FFS.
How are you going to ensure the ideological purity of your workplace unless you bust some chops over politics?
And sadly, a lot of the football fans I know are bitching about this decision because Trump.
I’d just like to pose a scenario to a guy like Jenkins about some normal guy who expressed wrongthink and was fired. It’s a simple test to see whether he’s an asshole or not (I would already wager he’s not very bright, but that’s besides the point). I mean, it’s the simplest way of seeing whether you’re dealing with a hypocrite or someone who at least respects free speech (even if they don’t fully comprehend what it means). If the latter cases, I’m forgiving. In the former, they can fuck right off.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Good news for the Simpsons and Futurama fans here, a new Matt Groening series coming out on Netflix in August:
https://www.cnet.com/news/matt-groening-netflix-animated-series-disenchantment-gets-release-date/
Please God, let this be better than the new Simpsons stuff.
Has Aziz Ansari apologized in advance?
Welp.
Throws away script outline for a film called “Disenchanted” about a wayward wizard who gets banished to the real world.
This should be this site’s theme song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCUDxgYMdxI
or this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ4T9wcVp7c
You had one job, Winston.
Is this the ultimate glibertarian film?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpx4ApT7-pk
So. I just got in from doing the bakes (all the pads and rotors)) I haven’t worked on a daily driver in many years – money but no time. Now that I’m retired (have time and money) I thought why not? Disc brakes are no big deal. A few observations
1. Brakes (along with exhausts) are the Nick Gillespe of automotive manitenance.
2. That money I spent on the air hammer was money well spent.
3. There are youTube videos showing how to do just about everything automotive Some are real good.
4. The videos would probably be more useful if you watch them before you start the job.
5. Who’s been mucking he the International Standards? 125
Damn tablet.
12
Shit. Did I just Brooks and Gilmore a post?
#4. Nah, I always screw it up and then watch. Don’t tell me what to do! (until I screw it up)
Fuck!
125 ft/lbs of torque is waaay more torque than the last time I did this.
5. Last time I’m doing this fucking job.
Meet Charlie Sprinkle. The man who sued 16 government officials, to include Ronald Reagan, and their wives over the right to drive in private property (he also challenged the government’s authority to print money not backed by gold and silver). The judge, as far as I can tell, actually through the suit out on the grounds that it was “frivolous.” However, local law enforcement declined to pull him over until the day of his death despite his continued operation of a motor vehicle on public roadways without a license.
Libertarian hero, even if he could only carve out a bit more freedom at the hands of the state for himself.
Move along folks, there’s nothing to see here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/23/there-is-no-evidence-for-spygate-but-there-is-a-reason-that-trump-invented-it/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2bb529f34c62
It seems Trump invented the notion that he was spied on based on extremely flimsy evidence, at least according to that rock of journalistic integrity known as the Washington Post.
The comments are priceless.
That they are, if by priceless you mean deluded, and they absolutely eat that shit up.
Other than coming from a source you don’t like, what about that article is factually incorrect?
I don’t so much have a problem with the facts as presented, just the framing of the facts and the conclusions drawn from them. The implication that trying to embed spooks into a presidential campaign isn’t indicative of spying is nonsense in my opinion.
They insist there’s no evidence of spying when we have evidence that people involved in the campaign were wiretapped. So, that’s factually inaccurate, but of course what the Washington Post means is that the informants in question weren’t spying, per se. They want to play a semantic game. The same sort they played when the issue of wiretaps was brought up. It wasn’t at Trump tower or it wasn’t a physical wiretap…they were just monitoring the communications one way or the other. Just like with that storyline, Trump is easily going to win this because it’s a distinction the public who voted for Trump aren’t going to care about. And, frankly, it’s nuance without a real point.
If the Washington Post wants to address this in a serious manner, they should probably start with the question of whether there was a basis for whatever the government WAS doing (there wasn’t), and whether they were actually following normal procedure. This aspect of the storyline is always subdued because they wouldn’t have a leg to stand on.
Spying and informing are also pretty similar things. The definitions are pretty similar. And the distinction is rather tortured.
Especially in light of this. Because if this led to anything, we’d be talking about something far more in depth. He wasn’t embedded, as they claim, because his attempts proved fruitless.
The Washington Post is also employing different standards, which is typical. People with a bias often times take it easy on one side and then are ridiculously harsh on the other. I’m not just speaking of how they are playing a game of semantics in their reporting, but in what they deem to be credible. The word of someone involved on the Trump campaign? Not credible. Which, it actually shouldn’t be. But that’s not the standard they used when reporting on unsubstantiated claims made by Obama officials (to include on this very topic, post Trump’s victory).
Then we have this tortured paragraph that pretends to be presenting facts. The Papadopoulos drunk talk was pushed as recently as last week as the basis for the entire investigation. Yet, the actual facts show that the FBI didn’t actually consider it until late July and didn’t interview anyone involved until early August (the Australian). Then Papa in Sep.
This is a really, really dumbed down version of what people are arguing.
It’s disingenuous bullshit from start to finish.
The point that neither WaPo nor anyone else is going to make is that intelligence agencies generally spy on the government that employs them — including the head of state. I’m sure MI6 is spying on May, FSS is spying on Putin, Mossad is spying on Netanyahu, etc. The only remarkable thing here is that they bothered to spy on Trump while they were sure he wasn’t going to win.
The spy question was also reported two weeks by the Wall Street Journal. Here’s a different article from the same time referencing the WSJ which is behind a paywall:
https://www.thepostemail.com/2018/05/10/report-fbi-may-have-placed-spy-inside-trump-campaign/
So this argument was in the public domain at least a week before Trump tweeted about it.
For an airport of this size – Chicago ohare is undoubtedly the shittiest one I’ve been in for a long time. Re: congestion, distance between terminals for pedestrians, etc. Wish I could just get out on the road and drive. Just not enough time this summer.
O’Hare is a shithole.
Except for all the other shithole airports.
Yeah, LaGuardia says Hi. I just escaped from there.
Dulles, LAX and Heathrow were pain in the but to transfer through.
Walking from F terminal to A terminal was ridiculously overcrowded for Wednesday evening. Corridors needed to be twice as wide for the number of gates, etc.
Just finished walking from B20 to B89 in Denver. Also a charm, but nice and empty right now – made it with time to spare – but a hour between flights is a little stressful when you’re waiting to deplane. They might need to work on their recommended flight connection algorithms a little more given the specific airports.
The minimum connect times are set by airport by each airline, and can be set down to the flight number.
Generally minimum for United at Denver on a domestic-domestic is 50 minutes, but can be as low as 30 minutes depending on the flight numbers. Of course, that’s the minimum that an airline will sell you on a single ticket & where if you misconnect, they’ll put you on the next available flight, not you’re guaranteed to make your connection.
*set for each airport by each airline individually
I spent several hours last Friday at St Louis. It’s the Detroit of airports. Nothing like what it used to be in the heyday of TWA. The entire D concourse is shuttered and locked off now.
The demise of TWA took away that great old bit:
Hot stewardess to drooling male passenger:
“Would you like TWA coffee, or TWA tea?”
I jotted down my airport list the other day and came up with 62. Here are my Rushmores:
a) epic shitholes: RNO, LHR, KRK, CDG
b) worst co-passengers: MIA, LAX, MEX, MCO (am I racist?)
c) handy little secrets: FNT, ONT (back in the day; everyone knows now), ABE, LIT
d) best customs to come back through: MSP, DFW, JFK, YWG (you can process into the US before you leave….O Canada!)
e) alltime faves: MUN, GSO, BCN, PDX
I’d take LAX over PDX any day of the week, particularly now that most of the airport is connected airside. The carpet needs to get pulled up and OLCC shut down for a start.
Preclearance is utter crap. I actively avoid airports with those (mainly certain Canadian, Irish, & Caribbean ones right now). Getting stuck in the US only secured area and not being to move around the rest of the airport is awful. I’d much rather arrive as a normal international arrival and process through Customs & Immigration here. GE makes that a breeze.
I’m looking at our family friendly seal of approval. If the parents are blue and red, shouldn’t their child be purple? Or am I totally racist for thinking they adopted a kid from China?
The Democrat wife’s Republican husband is a cuck and she fucked the Asian dry cleaner and got knocked up.
^See, this is why we need late night posts. We’re reduced to this. (Though I lol’ed).
Ancient Chinese secret, huh?
We haven’t had a late night post in a while. Throw us dogs in other time zones a bone, bruh.
*waves at straff*
Pretty much preoccupied but still refreshing now and then. Aside from that, I got nothing. Sorry.
Morning. AM off today. Keep it secret, the wife doesn’t know.
And you’re using this free time to lurk around here and not venture to more lurid internet destinations? You’re slipping in your old age.
I’m at a coffee shop. Even Q’s links are a bit risky.
I’m up odd hours and often look in to see what’s going on late. Things really die by midnight eastern on weeknights.
I’ll look in more and maybe post a link just to see what opinions are around.
Don. Give me an inspirational post, if you would.
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yes, god yes.
That’s better.
Looking back, my dislike of GSP was unwarranted. The guy is a super cool dude. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SYvKr8WmhR8
Prohibition isn’t about confiscating drugs, silly. It’s just a policy of putting you in prison if you’re found with any.
That’s the logic of this window licking twerp, anyway.
Actually prohibition is about forbidding people to possess something without paying for the privilege. Thus the term ‘Revenuers’.
I think the war on drugs in winding down. I think that within my lifetime, the amount of enforcement of drug laws will drop dramatically.
When the original prohibition ended, all the revenuers joined the newly formed war on guns. I fear that something similiar may happen in the future.
Enforcement of illegal drugs maybe. But legal drug regulation will continue to ratchet. I can’t buy Sudafed any where without showing a DL and going on a list (or without a script in my own state). Opioids & painkillers are getting locked down and pressure put on docs not to prescribe them.
There’s always going to be make work for the agencies as long as they’re here. Only way is to burn them to the ground and salt the ashes & dirt.
You’re right about that. I can see many state enforcement officers jumping ship to being federal enforcers as the war on legal but regulated to death drugs continues to ramp up. Fucking state agents have to be enforcing something. Firing them all is not an option.
I doubt it. Look at the struggle it’s taken to get marijuana kinda sorta legalized in a few states – and there we’re talking about a drug that pretty much everybody has tried (up to and including at least half our living ex-Presidents), nobody’s ever OD’d on, and that doesn’t have a reputation for spectacularly destroying peoples’ lives.
Well, in any event, the twerp admits that gun owners who don’t take their Constitutional rights lightly would be treated as criminals… and that criminals wouldn’t give up their weapons. It’s either an astonishing admission of the intellectual bankruptcy of the gun grabber movement, or twerp literally can’t see past the tip of his nose.
The term “buyback” pisses me off. The government can’t buy back something they never owner in the first place.
Well, we eliminated the use of illegal drugs in this country by that method, so I see why the author endorses the same methods. When was the last time that you heard of someone using an illegal drug? It simply doesn’t happen. And as a side benefit we now have one of the world’s lowest prison populations.
This kind of shit pisses me off to no end. Don’t mess with strangers that are just going to work etc.
Dammit. https://japantoday.com/category/crime/police-arrest-graduate-students-for-intersection-table-stunt
I just flew in from Cleveland and boy are my arms tired.
/narrows gaze.
If I see or hear the phrase “Go Cavs” one more time I’m going to go postal.
Go….Caps!
Ken must be running in the street naked right about…..now!
Go Cavs!
Slowly I turned…
Step by step
Dinner tonight: fingerling potatoes, asparagus, fiddleheads, pork belly, poached egg, Arctic char.
Sounds good. I made a huge pot of spaghetti last night. There is more than half of it left. I think it’s better the second night. Especially with garlic bread.
I thought my mom always said that to get us to endure leftovers.
Some leftovers are superior to others. Chili, Stew, Spaghetti, Pot roast, and most casseroles get better with age.
Other things, not so much.
+1 Curry. The worst? Day old McDonald’s fries. Not great when fresh. Day old and I’d rather eat ______.
What? What would you rather eat?
8=====D
Close call, CP.
^^^
Your mom … leftovers … second night … Heh.
I used to make spaghetti once a week. My red sauce is amaaaazziiingg. We’ve been keto/paleo/no carb since the beginning of March. I really miss spaghetti. Eat some for me, Lachowsky.
Pretty good dinner for a trailer park, Ricky.
Or just have an actual affair.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/pretend-youre-in-an-affair-can-spice-up-your-marriage-relationship-expert-says/
Trouble is my wife would never believe it, and for good reason.
Wife and I have quarreled about many different things. Our fidelity has never been one of those things. That is good.
Ya think being told over and over again that your husband is an oppressive shitlord might have had an effect on your love life?
That’s why she loves me. Being an oppressive shitlord has it’s advantages. Once when she was being pressed…bullied really by a local tough who wanted money for yard work I pulled in the driveway and instantly saw what was going on I got out of the jeep and made a beeline to him and asked if she was ok. She said not really she was intimidated. “Sir you are going to back off and keep your hands to yourself. You will leave our property now and dont come back. ” Hefumbled around for a bit trying some slimy excuse for why he wouldn’t leave and just wanted to …….
“Sir, leave now. I wont ask you again.” He was twice my size but I had a pistol on my hip. I didn’t have my hand on it, but it was there. He did a 180 left and we never saw him again. My wife is 5′ tall and 98 lbs with her right arm atrophied from Polio. Anyone assaults her or bullies her I am going into medieval mode.I dont care if they are Jesus Christ come down off of the right hand of god, they are gonna have a real problem. Don’t give my wife grief unless you want it visited on you x100.
Another timeSome loon verbally attacked us in a parking lot about having a dog in a car, made threats etc.
“You’re still standing over there. What’s the matter? You have glue on the bottom of your shoes? ” He tried to say something else and I cut him off “Fuck off and mind your own business” He went away mad but he went away.
My wife says she would never want to be in a confrontation with me and yes, she affirmed that I am a scary white boy. We spend 24 hrs every day together. She says she feels safe because I am her scary white boy. And I am.
Finally watched the Smith video.
I don’t feel bad for him. What he did to his family was irresponsible and points directly to character in my view. Self-righteous busy body activism is not proof of being morally in the right.
And is he applying for exec jobs only? Maybe he needs to tone it down and aim lower and rebuild himself? Also, was he buying ‘free range chicken’ while on food stamps?
All that over fricken gay marriages? That’s some sword to fall on.
Go woke, go broke indeed.
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He miscalculated his white privilege. Lmao
Oh and he seemed to be a tad too aloof about his kids giving away their ‘favourite’ toys. I would have felt horrible especially since I was the reason the kids had to give it away.
He’s a bit of a douche.
Not to put too fine a point on it, eh? I say he’s the -bag, the -nozzle, the vinegar solution…
I hope he goes broke, and that his children never learn to read.
If his little stunt wasn’t so obviously premeditated, I wouldn’t care much. If you don’t have that little voice in your head at some point saying, “You’re being an asshole”, you need to examine yourself.
Yusef spelled Backwards is Ukulele, check it out,
https://youtu.be/UVlcdSeWKV4
Nice! Putting me in the mood for my trip to HI in July.
I mean, no Jake Shimabukuro, but nobody is (that video still blows me away).
I’ve heard him on SXM, but never seen him play. Holy cow, that guy has hands of magic.
I religiously follow Razorback baseball. We are having a great year. We’re about to play the night game in the SEC tournament 1st round. It doesn’t start until after 9:30. I have to be up at 5:30 tomorrow morning.
I also haven’t missed any work in more than a year.
Anybody ever see one of these before? Took me a minute to figure out I had to hold the brakes on.
Ugh. New phone. https://image.ibb.co/c0cVko/3850_E8_E1_3569_4_B01_B246_D862073_E3_DD0.jpg
Not a clue. Escalator for unicycles?
Nice. Close. For bicycles.
Yeah, it occurred to me it would work for that too. ?
Unciv is rubbing off on me.
Not at all. It didn’t occur to me until after I posted my first guess.
What ever it is, it will cut your fingers off and then knock you on your ass
OMG I thought that was a dog’s head coming off.
Isn’t Josh Homme a libertarian or something?
A good piece from Scott Alexander, deconstructing some of the dumber arguments made re: the IDW over the past 2 weeks
(notable examples by ENB and NJR @ Current Affairs both addressed)
the thing he centers on is the flawed (but popular) complaint made by all …
(which i mentioned in an earlier post noting the shared gripes across all media)
…namely, this idea that their very popularity somehow undermines their complaint of being ostracized or facing any negative-pressures. (“Can things be both popular AND silenced?”)
He gives a variety of examples of how this plays out all the time in other spheres, and yet we don’t think its odd at all. One notion he points to which i found particularly useful is the idea that, the more orthodox an idea is… the lower the barrier to entry for advocacy, and so you end up with lots of them.
iow, “SJWs” – they’re so plentiful that you can probably name dozens of well-known ones (lindy west, randy harper, arthur chu, the entire editorial staff @ the Guardian and Post Everything, the staff of Salon… etc)…
… but when an idea isn’t widely accepted, there’s far less competition for advocacy. Or, as scott puts it:
and much more. he also touches upon a point which i found frustratingly ignored:
this is something i’d have thought so obvious that it wouldn’t need pointing out, and which i suspect is a convenient and willful obtuseness among critics of the IDW types.
anyway, worth a read. as usual Scott manages to find a pony in piles of poo.
“or just having your fan base shift entirely to being weird alt-right people whom you hate and don’t want to be associated with.”
Postrelized.
Also TL;DR AF. I made it halfway and gave up. Spice up a simple point with injected humor or stay focused if you’re making a long, drawn out point.
BTW, this is more of a self criticism than of Scott.
It is long. its his biggest flaw. he makes maybe 3-4 good points, and has 3-4 good anecdotes/analogies.
but there’s an equal 3-4 ‘also decent points, but probably not all that essential’, and a few analogies (the “Self-shockers”) that he could have just left out.
Is ‘The Strange Metamorphosis of Matt Welch’ going to lead to a new term of being ‘Welched?’
There’s a lot of , um, female-ish screeching coming from the anti IDW crowd that drives its popularity. If I see a man getting screamed at by his wife, I don’t give a shit what he did. STFU bitch. I’m not married to you and don’t wanna listening to that wailing.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0e0b565533693678153f1a3690f68219639440e936483affbf0819edccdfdc63.jpg
Oh my God.
Eugh. Bubbles DeVere-level shit.
*reaches for bleach*
Yee-fucking-ikes!
Ovi. Damn.
Army/Caps. I can’t wait!
As if that’s not enough – former GM McPhee takes on his old team!
This is the best of hockey. The Caps were better than I’ve ever seen them.
To be sure, they were impressive tonight.
I have no idea who to root for.
East > West
easy
Erroneous. Except this year. I’d love to see Ovi get paid.
Army is gonna be tough for years.
I’m not talking about hockey skills.
I’m not wearing hockey pads!
I’m not talking about hockey skills.
Well, that’s just crazy talk. You need to go West, young man.
Close but misses the mark.
http://quillette.com/2018/05/22/jordan-peterson-failure-left/
The writer wants desperately to believe that the SJW, hashtag assassins are an extreme and unusual manifestation of the Left, she fails to understand that they are everything the Left’s cultural project has aimed for coming to fruition. The Left cannot respond to Peterson in a meaningful way because the Left is intellectually bankrupt. They know only absurd oppression narratives and authoritarian power appeals.
This is not the sort of conservativism that most Americans and Canadians think of when they hear the term ‘conservative.’ For example, it has no necessary connection to the sort of uncritical championing of corporate capitalism favored by conservatives today.
And I’m done. S/he’d just gotten through upbraiding leftists for being too cynical and simplistic in their critiques if Peterson, and then she drops that turd in the punchbowl. I listen to a number of highbrow conservative luminaries, none of whom fit that description—all of whom, in fact, reject corporatism outright. There’s no question about this: the State is a pernicious influence for spreading predominately leftists tropes into the corporate world. If s/he were being honest, s/he’d accuse conservatives of being partisans for prosperity, but since that clashes with the soft fascism narrative that conservatives are “uncritical capitalists,” s/he’d never admit it.
So RushIA Limbaugh and SATIN Hannity? Those are the only voices on the KoCh bought right/prog
There’s perhaps two or three avowed Trumpsters in my podcast rotation, and they aren’t MAGA-hat wearing retards. We’re talking NRO and Ricochet authors, culture commentators and businessmen and journalists, all of whom have an abiding faith in and respect for markets and liberty. Many of them are reluctant Trump supporters, a few of them advocates, and some still team #NeverTrump. They vary in religion and personal conservatism. Some outright reject the Republican label, many consider themselves more libertarian. It’s a diverse bunch of opinionists, and they’re all shockingly well-read. So to write off modern conservatism as nothing but capitalist partisans is arrogant ignorance.
Most people who I hear still calling themselves conservatives in the main stream ain’t much on that capitalist part.
There are some interesting splits in conservatism that I’m not at all qualified even to try to explain. Jonah Goldberg did an Remnant episode on the conservative intellectual tradition. A lot of Strauss, I gather, but I have no idea why. I think this person has her head up her ass of she thinks the movement is nothing but uncritical capitalist shills. Some of the most important debates, for the county as well as for conservatism, revolve about the question of identity politics and whether Trump answers or exacerbates the left’s gradual slide into identitarian madness. While leftists like this Carol woman are only recently coming to terms with their literal as well as figurative identity crisis, conservatives are speculating how best to bail water out of their movement, and worrying whether Trumpist populism, which makes a grievance class out of middle-American whites, might spell the end of the American experiment. These are weighty, worthy questions, which the left, because of the nature of their intellectual heritage, skipped over entirely. Now a few of them are waking up to that fact and beginning to make half-hearted defenses of center-right thinkers like Peterson, who are not, in fact, Hitlerian monsters, but they have the gall to cast aspersions on conservatives for thrashing these questions out in real time rather than waiting for their movement to be swollowed whole by the identitarian conflagration.
I didn’t RTFA; I’m just bustin your balls on the way ‘conservatism’ is seen these days. The face of it isn’t Goldwater or even Reagan, it’s neocons. Every political ad I see for a ‘conservative’ talks about how many jobs THEY will create by doing X,Y and Z. Not that them getting the government out of the way will create jobs, but that THEY will.
I myself have written an essay or two (that I’ve lost and can’t post here) about how I believe in less government, but think that can only work within a conservative society with set values. If you’re going to abolish the welfare state, people need to take care of their own shit.
There’s blame to go around, but it looks here like the Dems are the most consistent croniests.
https://spectator.org/michigan-think-tank-looks-into-scope-of-states-crony-capitalism-its-not-pretty/
Amash is the only consistently good guy here.
Love that guy. I wonder if he’d consider a move to Minne…
Yes, she gets a few things wrong. and even when she’s right, she manages some wrong bits.
e.g.
“”For example, Peterson is concerned with how postmodern anti-foundationalism undercuts longstanding cultural norms.””
not just cultural; he repeatedly notes that there are biological drivers of heirarchy, of gender roles, which inform ‘culture’. Her point may be sloppy, but its that sort of sloppiness which i think affects all the complaints you make as well. I also don’t think he’s “Classically Conservative” ; (liberal is what she means, because she’s a lefty, and liberal ideas of free-markets and limited govt is “conservative” to her)
but i think its silly to over-weight the flaws in her angle of approach; what i find far more reprehensible is the way people who should otherwise *know better* (like Reason) who come to a completely opposite conclusion; people who SHOULD understand the distinctions, but choose to ignore them
I have hearing problems, so I watched a lip reading of the Royal Wedding.
Needs the guy who signed at Mandela’s funeral.
Mandelas funeral is the entire obama presidency in a nutshell.
Favorite part – Charles asleep.
My favorite bad lip reading:
Don’t Fall Asleep
I’m not afraid to admit, I saw Lifehouse open for Everclear in the early aughts.
Worth sitting through that.
Well, it was the tour for this album, a lot less fun.
Yeah, that’s a nut punch, but still solid. I like Art.
When I saw Semi-Sonic The Getaway people opened, Limo was their single at the time; they started their set by saying “We’re the Getaway People, from Norway” It wasn’t a good set, but at least I remember that much.
Ugh, I hope there was decent booze until Semisonic went onstage.
I was a teatotling teenager at the time, so no such luck.
Trip Shakespeare, the band that spawned Semisonic.
They were a really fun band.
We have had this conversation before. I think we need more Cusack this time around.
OK.
Did you watch The Jackbull or Max yet?
Neither. Are they better or worse than Grosse Point Blank?
Different. Not comedy, drama. A cowboy movie and pre-WWII movie respectively.
You’re among friends CPRM. I went to an Alanis Morisette concert, because Garbage was the opening act.
Sounds like it was the main act, too.
Almost ironic…
I saw Squeeze because The Smithereens opened. No regrets.