Happy hangover Tuesday. I hope everyone has been successfully pretending to work today. I bring you links.
I’m shocked… shocked! To find out that there was sexual exploitation going on by essentially all of the NGOs in West African refugee camps. Wait, no. No I’m not.
Billionaire George Soros outlines plan to save Europe. I assume this is a linked monologue from the British spy service, recorded as one of their top agents was surviving a blown-cover during a deep cover operation.
Oh look instead of $300/bbl oil, Russia and Saudi Arabia got to almost $80 and then decided to pump more.
I… What sort of moron do you have to be to start a wildfire? Oh one who burns an American flag blanket to protest Memorial Day.
Finally, the Little Rover That Could has learned a new way to drill holes on Mars. I’m just endlessly fascinated by the fact that the little fucker keeps working year after year.
For the Wile E. Coyotes of every era, here’s a little afternoon chill guitar.
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Wow, early and with nudity. Bravo.
I actually worked pretty hard today. Next is running errands for wife. Maybe beers after work tomorrow.
You need to plan better.
I just got out of a 120 degree attic, it’s Beer Thirty.
/Yes I Work
I always wondered what hvac people thought they were signing up for. And don’t forget the boiler rooms.
Oh look instead of $300/bbl oil, Russia and Saudi Arabia got to almost $80 and then decided to pump more.
Why, its almost like resource-based economies with governments dependent on oil revenue to stay in power can’t afford not to pump oil. Huh.
Venezuelans would nod but they don’t have energy.
Oh, nice…
certainly, not in perpetuity though, right?
I can’t imagine what it would be like to fix something that is so completely isolated that even communicating with it to do diagnostics or reprogram it has a roundtrip lag of over 20 minutes.
It would allow lots of time for screwing around on the internet.
Sounds amazing.
*Waits another day to hear back from the warehouse*
butt why?
btw – I thank the heavens I talked my wife out of getting a tattoo (the tramp stamp).
You’re going God’s work LH.
Every time I consider myself a civilized man, well-mannered with refined tastes, I remember that I like tramp stamps.
Its all about the chassis, IMO. Tramp stamp on a muffin top? Blecch. Tramp stamp on a firm, well-rounded torso? You go, girl.
I’m in the minority here, I know, but ink on chicks isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Its like leverage – a hot girl with good ink revs my engine. A hot girl with bad ink is just sad. The saying about lipstick on a pig also applies.
I’ve seen girls where the ink fits the overall facade well, but I’ve never seen a girl and thought “y’know what would make her hotter? A bunch of subcutaneous dye vaguely resembling a hummingbird and a flower”
A bunch of subcutaneous dye vaguely resembling a hummingbird and a flower
Also known as “not good ink”. Most people don’t have good ink, ’tis true.
I don’t think I’ve ever looked at someone and thought “They need tattoos”. But I have looked at people and thought “Nice tattoo.”
I have, some people just need a little extra flash of color and contrast.
Yeah, I can appreciate the skill and artistic merit of a good tattoo, and they’re not automatically a turn-off for me the way they seem to be for some people around here.
That said, I can’t recall seeing a tattoo on a woman that I felt increased her attractiveness/sex-appeal, but I’ve definitely seen some that have decreased it.
I can say both. More on the decrease side, sure.
trshmnstr nails it.
Remember this story?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/9491391/Elderly-woman-destroys-19th-century-fresco-with-DIY-restoration.html
No matter how good the before is, with a tattoo a few decades is going to give an after.
*looks at painting in story. Begins laughing uncontrollably*
Good ink requires a good design and skilled application. That can be found because its done by professionals. Its not universal, but you can get it taken care of without too much trouble.
The problem is that good ink also requires skilled placement and selection. Most people pick their own tattoos, most people don’t know the first thing about visual design, and so most people pick a bad tattoo and have it expertly applied.
A well chosen and well located ink can do a lot to compensate for a woman who’s not in love with the body god gave her even after she’s hit an ideal body fat % and muscle mass. I knew one flat-chested girl that got a fine-detailed pattern on her upper pecs to simulate the visual gravity she wishes her bust naturally had. A butter-face can draw attention to her better assets with ink on her wrists and forearms or lower rib cage.
I was jogging one time and saw the most stunning young woman standing in a yard. Blonde hair waving freely in the wind, the most lovely face, sparkling green eyes, and a nice sun dress showing off her smooth legs… And she turns around, and the whole lateral aspect of her right leg is covered with this tattoo of vines and flowers with thick black outlines. Horrid black lines colored in with a hokey, unnatural green and cartoonish bright red. Damn shame.
Still would, though.
A well chosen and well located ink can do a lot to compensate for a woman who’s not in love with the body god gave her even after she’s hit an ideal body fat % and muscle mass.
This is a good point, but properly selected and fitted clothing and hairstyle has much the same effect.
I don’t begrudge anybody their tats, but it’s a risky venture with (IMO) nearly zero aesthetic upside.
I don’t like ink, but last week on the bus ride home, I sat behind a cute young blonde woman with great skin in a sundress who and a lipstick tattoo on the upper back of her right shoulder. It took great self-control not to lean forward and giving it a kiss.
“Horrid black lines colored in with a hokey, unnatural green and cartoonish bright red.”
Pretty much describes my varicose veins
I’m a fan of ink, personally, but even those who aren’t might find this work kinda hot. God knows it gets me every time.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ae/6a/18/ae6a186799a37e7e98092275808a31d8.jpg
I too did not care for inked women, but after living in SC for awhile it has somewhat grown on me. It is more uncommon to see an un-inked female.
With the rain from Alberto we’re at about 20 inches of rain at my house in 2 weeks, which is a little less than 1/3rd of our normal yearly rain total.
We’d been in a minor drought. Guess we’re not in one any longer.
Hey, another 6 inches and you’ll be at what Harvey dumped on my neighborhood – in 6 hours.
That’s what Rose McGowan said…
*golf clap*
Would you say it’s a Final Solution?
Yeah, just get a marketing company on that to come up with a new logo and mission statement and you’ll be golden.
Don’t forget a spiffy uniform! What’s Hugo Boss producing these days?
So, change the wrapper without changing the contents? Yeah, that’ll work.
How long before they reintroduce “EU Classic”?
That’s the one with the walls and DMZs, yeah?
I wonder what Soros’s plan is here because this is a 180 from his previous position. He spent a shitload of money trying to get refugee promoting politicians elected in places like Macedonia and Hungary.
Maybe he actually sees the writing on the wall and figures it’s time to cut losses before it blows up in his face, a plausible deniability, as it were.
Member states should not be forced to accept refugees they don’t want and refugees should not be forced to settle in countries where they don’t want to go
Pretty sure you can’t do both. What if a refugee wants to go to a country that doesn’t want him?
Allowing to countries to opt out is just going to concentrate the refugees in fewer countries, increasing pressure on those countries to opt out.
It’s to get refugees in all the posh places to extend bennies.
Crazy preacher is crazy.
I drove down to Palo Alto last week to meet Stevens at a tony cafe, because I was curious about what he had seen that had so soured his views of the city, and about whether he had any ideas about what could ameliorate one of Silicon Valley’s most pressing problems: the stark income inequality dividing the haves from the have-nots. What I encountered was instead a tall firebrand with a blond beard who thinks that to change anything in Silicon Valley, or in the wider country, it’s necessary to tear down capitalism entirely, and build something new in its place. “I think the whole system is broken,” Stevens told me.
His radical approach to tearing down the system means he has very few tangible solutions to the inequality that plagues Silicon Valley. When I asked Stevens what Mark Zuckerberg or other billionaires should be doing to eradicate inequality, he said the Facebook founder should “transform” the way his business is structured, perhaps dividing shares among employees, maybe turning the company into a worker cooperative. Wealthy people in Palo Alto need to “join the revolution,” he told me, and engage in “collectivized participatory communal-type work.” Americans need to rethink the ability to patent ideas, and instead collectivize the process of patenting. “To me, that larger systemic critique is what we should be doing, because otherwise, we’re never really getting to the actual problem,” he said.
Yeah, okay. But he’d rather be in California than Venezuela. I wonder why that is.
engage in “collectivized participatory communal-type work.”
Hmmm… where have I heard of this idea before? Stevens should just call himself Brother #1.
You couldn’t have heard of this idea before. It’s brand new, some might even call it revolutionary.
Sounds like he’s full of fresh new ideas. This is like a story about a guy who has a radical new plan for a motorized horse carriage. Except that old idea was actually good.
Christ, what an asshole.
Patents ARE collectivization. It’s the exchange of limited monopoly for the eventual release of your idea to the collective.
oh, you mean that bag of manure really IS full of shit?
Americans need to rethink the ability to patent ideas, and instead collectivize the process of patenting.
I must have blacked out before I got to that one. Holy shit, a nugget of compressed derp. Not only is the process of patenting already collectivized, you can’t patent a mere “idea” now, so I don’t know if he mistakenly believes you can and we should stop that, or he believes you can’t and should be able to.
Technical aside: a mere idea cannot be copyrighted. Only a particular expression of that idea can be, with a penumbra around that expression so you can’t claim the Harry Potter books as your own by changing a comma. Most of the litigation around copyright has to do with whether a different expression of an idea is too derivative of an earlier, copyrighted one. I don’t know dick about the details of patents, but I would expect a similar concept there based on “prior art”.
Without even diving into the derp, one reason this guy is a complete idiot is that there’s an alternative. If you take away my patent monopoly, I don’t file the patent, and instead rely on trade secret law to protect the invention. We already do that on a daily basis with inventions that aren’t worth 5 figures of preparation and filing costs.
I thought that thing about Roseanne getting canceled was a joke. Silly me.
So did I at first. That was pretty fast.
I read a story that she tweeted the most racisty racist stuff ever but I didn’t see anything worth raising an eyebrow.
The ruling class just recognize her as an enemy for failing to demonize the cracker Trump voters. Even though her show was still full of leftist claptrap she had to be stopped.
Soon she’ll apologize and kneel before the king begging for mercy.
If there’s one thing the proggies hate more than anything else, it’s one of their own going off the reservation.
“Roseanne Barr’s TV show is CANCELLED and she is dropped by her agents following ‘racist tweet’ saying Valerie Jarrett looked like ‘the Muslim brotherhood and planet of the apes had a baby’”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5783595/Wanda-Skyes-quits-Roseanne-Barrs-TV-following-Valerie-Jarrett-tweet.html
It was stupid of Roseanne to tweet that. And I think it was stupid of ABC to fire her for it. Roseanne’s whole shtick is that she’s offensive. Most people aren’t on Twitter, and a week from now the SJW mob would have moved on to the next outrage.
They wouldn’t care if she said it about Clarence Thomas.
I’ll continue watching when netflix or amazon pick it up.
Was he petting a white cat?
You know who else liked to pet white cats?
Siegfried and/or Roy ?
Granny fuckers?
White Supremacy me?
If cat = pussy.
Speaking at the European Council on Foreign Relations annual council meeting Tuesday, Soros said Europe was in “an existential crisis.”
In a speech titled “How to Save Europe,” Soros claimed that the bloc’s pressing issues can be broken down into the refugee crisis, territorial breakups such as Brexit, and economic struggles brought on by austerity.
When does he give the speech about why the hell we would want to?
Well, he’s not entirely wrong… Jews and women are indeed experiencing crises from the influx of refugees.
A Unified Europe was always his boyhood dream?
economic struggles brought on by austerity
And what brought on “austerity”? Wouldn’t have anything to do with massive government debt and massive government regulation strangling the economies tasked with paying that debt, would it?
Without looking at the details of Soros’ plan, I’m going to go way out on a limb here and speculate that the plan would, if implemented, increase the net worth of George Soros.
He sketched out a plan to fund better education and unemployment in Africa at a cost of 30 billion euros ($34.7 billion) a year. He claimed this would stem those seeking refuge. Soros said the crisis is a European Union one and the financing could be arranged through the EU’s “largely unused” borrowing capacity.
Borrowing to fund potential solutions to the migrant crisis leads Soros to address the austerity ethos which he described as a “prevailing addiction” among policymakers.
He wants to lend them the ransom money. I never saw that coming. Also, “Austerity!”
the financing could be arranged through the EU’s “largely unused” borrowing capacity
Does the EU even really have any borrowing capacity of its own, or is it really the borrowing capacity of, well, Germany, maybe France?
the austerity ethos which he described as a “prevailing addiction” among policymakers.
Its always such a struggle to get governments to spend money.
Maybe he just wants to push yields higher on EU bonds. It is how he makes money after all.
Spend 30 billion dollars to start Wakanda. It’s a fool proof plan. South Africans and Rhodesians got their hands on a lot more money than that and still managed to become the sort of places that create refugees.
From the sidebar on the Soros story; ABC cancels Rosanne for her tweeting: “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.” VJ is Valerie Jarret from what the story says.
Her face frozen, a rictus of horror
Immobile but for darting eyes
that seek out the creatures capering
just out of sight
Kim Novak already played that part.
Argh! Kim Hunter.
Well that didn’t last long. I’d get worked up about it, but worrying about what happens on broadcast TV is like if they changed the formula for Ensure. It might make the product worse, but all their customers are old and will be dead soon so it doesn’t really matter.
It’s odd to me that when the left creates a link between apes and minorities in their heads it’s racist that nobody else found that connection enough to see an issue. “Making us think racist thoughts is to most racist thing ever!”
I know I’m guilty of badthink, but she does look like she could play a character on the Planet of the Apes TV show from when I was a kid.
It’s the hair.
I’d blame the bad cheek implants.
I don’t understand why Roseanne is so boothered by VJ right now anyway.
I’m always “bothered” by vj…
The NY Post is now fuming over the White House “dodging” questions about Roseanne. What times we live in…
Piers Morgan is easily the dumbest human being ever to have existed on this rock we call “Earth”.
https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1001471277704544256
…Yes
a KKK slogan
curious for any examples there. I feel like “Damn Niggers!” is too generic to be a proper slogan.
Trump 2020
NJR at it again
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/05/what-venezuela-tells-us-about-socialism
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After a period of lavish spending under the government of Hugo Chavez, “the greed and incompetence of the ruling party soon began to take their devastating toll” and Venezuela’s government is characterized by the “sheer greed and incompetence of a ruling party hiding beneath a veneer of Socialist ideology.”
Venezuela, then, can tell us a lot about “kleptocracy.” But it can’t tell us anything about socialism, unless we take the label for the thing itself. As I have written before, socialism requires equal participation in power. If there isn’t equality, there isn’t socialism, no matter what the country’s leaders may choose to call themselves. Dictatorships are profoundly unequal, and since my politics demand equality, you can’t indict my politics by pointing to a highly unequal society dominated by elites, a place where, according to Karmanaev, “the rich and politically connected siphoned up up to $30 billion a year of heavily subsidized dollars through shell companies.”
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I’d call this intellectual sleight of hand, but it’s more intellectual “got your nose”.
It’s easy to argue your pet political theory has never been tried when said theory requires conditions that have never occurred and are unlikely to ever exist.
As I have written before, socialism requires equal participation in power.
No, that would be anarchism. Socialism has a government, which means by definition an enterprise that holds power over society as a whole.
But it can’t tell us anything about socialism, unless we take the label for the thing itself.
At some point, you should have to admit that when everything that is done under a certain label follows the same path, that we can indeed take the label for the thing itself. Perhaps there is something inherent on centralizing power over the economy (and much of the culture) in the state that leads to extraordinary levels of corruption and incompetence.
Now, if you want to write fiction about alternate realities, go right ahead. But do us the courtesy of calling yourself a fiction writer.
Ducks, quacking, etc?
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I’m at a loss here. The tard is so strong that it overwhelms my senses.
Definition of faint praise…
– Designate all property and the necessary resources to survive to be under the control of a small group of people to distribute for the “people.”
– Act surprised that a small group of people who control all the resources have massive power.
– Act confused when the distribution of those resources serves only the small class in charge. Wonder why the “people” lost control and why the “people” totally dependent on the overclass for survival resources are helpless to overthrow it.
– decide it must have been bad luck that a few people got so powerful under this system. Too bad that happened before socialism was tried.
I know. Its frikkin definitional that socialism requires massive power imbalances, yet he says that it requires absolutely zero power imbalances.
I suspect he’s just an old school commie, who sees utopia after the Total State remakes mankind By Any Means Necessary.
I’m not sure he’s that smart.
So, probably wears shoes with velcro straps because he’s not smart enough to tie shoelaces?
Socialism works just fine in monasteries. Slave pens as well but that’s another story.
I saw a documentary once about a place where everyone had free food, housing, and healthcare.
I think it was called “prison”.
Monasteries, slave pens, and prisons all lack “equal participation in power”. So, not “real socialism.”
C’mon, what could be more socialist than getting raped in the shower?
I’ve always said that socialism only has a chance of working if you meet two conditions:
1) It is implemented among a small, cohesive group with an aversion to screwing each other over
2) There is a process for expelling the layabouts who want everyone else to do the work for them
Even where these conditions are present – such as the hippie communes that are periodically founded – there are still tons of problems. There was an interesting read about “The Farm” and all the things that went wrong there.
I visited a defunct Shaker community in Kentucky that fit those rules exactly, plus celibacy. Still couldn’t compete with the
culture outside the boundaries of the community.
I’ve been there. The celibacy was a bit of a death sentence for that movement. They said at a time when survival resources were scarce that life got some attraction. I think once getting well fed became common and easy the necessity dissapeared and only novelty was left.
Socialism works best in Gulags.
Hate, in two minute increments
I’d like to put forward a slightly different theorem to help explain these Trumpian times: Ivanka’s Razor. The principle that, when it comes to Ivanka Trump, you should never ascribe to stupidity or ignorance that which can be explained by malice.
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So, when Ivanka tweeted that photo on Sunday, I don’t think it was a gaffe – I think she knew exactly what she was doing. Which was playing to Trump’s specific base; reminding them that it’s white families like hers – like theirs – who are important, not the brown families who Trump is breaking up; using the image of herself as a loving mother to provide a human face to Trump’s inhumane administration. Ivanka is an important complement to Trump’s messaging. He does all the crass dehumanisation of immigrants, lumping them together with the gang MS-13 and calling them dangerous “animals” the US needs to protect itself from; she provides the aspirational imagery of the US that needs protecting.
The events of this past weekend have served to bolster my long-standing belief that Ivanka is the most odious of all the Trumps. While the entire family is morally bankrupt, at least the rest of the clan don’t pretend they are anything other than greedy narcissists. Her slimy brothers certainly make no attempt to appeal to liberals. Ivanka, however, seems intent on keeping up the charade that she is some sort of champion of women and families. It is becoming increasingly obvious, however, that the only family Ivanka cares about is her own and the only woman she has any interest in empowering is herself.
Much brave. How resist.
16 dimensional dog whistling chess from the whole Trump Klan!
>you should never ascribe to stupidity or ignorance that which can be explained by malice
How lucky are we that all the people who disagree with me are evil! Life is so much easier this way. Now if you will excuse me, I have some Nazi’s to punch.
The author of that is the creator of this little piece of satire.
http://rentaminority.com/
He does all the crass dehumanisation of immigrants, lumping them together with the gang MS-13 and calling them dangerous “animals”
Uhh, it wasn’t Trump who lumped all immigrants together with MS-13, bro. Might need to look a little closer to home on that one.
This author deduced all that shit from a goddamn picture of a woman holding her baby??
Haldol, people. It works.
“Planet of the Apes” is a movie about a lot of things, including prejudice and “racism”. The apes, themselves, are just a macguffin. They might just as easily have been sentient amoebae from Betelgeuse.
But the Book was completely different, closer to the 2001 version………………….
/Damn dirty Ape!
Really, I might have to check out the book. The 2001 remake and its sequel were far better than I was expecting. Still need to get around to watching the last one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes_(novel)
As I have written before, socialism requires equal participation in power. If there isn’t equality, there isn’t socialism, no matter what the country’s leaders may choose to call themselves.
“According to my model, my model is correct.”
On NPRavda today, I heard a report that more and more colleges are ditching the SAT and ACT scores as criteria for acceptance. The argument is that test scores are not a good predictor of college success and anyway, test scores disproportionately exclude poor and minority students.
I know there are plenty of people with lackluster high school grades who only got into college because of standardized tests. I also know that are plenty of people with good high school grades with mediocre test scores.
WaPo kicks the derp up to 11 with this article:
These four charts show how the SAT favors rich, educated families
There was a great SNL skit in the 70s with Garrett Morris and Julian Bond about how the SAT is supposedly culturally biased against black people.
When reality doesn’t align with your model, change your lens prescription until it does.
They’re just implementing a plan to reinvent merit. They fully understand that their policies of choosing color over merit is pretty much racist by definition. But if merit isn’t ever measured than it’s difficult to nail them down.
The relevancy of a college degree to anything out of college is widening.
This fits with my conspiracy theory that “progressives” will eventually come up with a scheme to take hiring decisions away from private businesses. I’m sure some grievance studies department will be glad to churn out a “study that proves that typical candidate selection favors white males from wealthy backgrounds”.
Yes, of course, and the employer is willing to pay them 20% more than females because “screw the bottom line.”
More Soros:
“I want to point out that the proposal contains an ingenious device that would enable the European Union to borrow from the market at a very advantageous rate without incurring a direct obligation for itself or for its member states,” he said, according to a transcript of the speech.
“An ingenious device” he says.
*reflexively checks to see if wallet is still there*
I think they call that
thefttaxation.Or maybe a penaltax, not sure.
So he’s going to give the lenders the authority to impose taxes as necessary to pay the debt?
That would indeed be novel.
I can’t wait to see the EU governments line up behind that one. “Sure, give third parties the power to set up their own tax collection agencies within our borders. No problem.”
Hadn’t thought of that angle.
Soros is such a villain that it’s not out of the realm of my belief that he’s just setting up the EU for fiscal disaster so that he can profit.
If the EU and the EU governments don’t have any obligation to pay the bonds, why would they spend their own tax revenue to do so? So, if taxes will be levied to pay the bonds, they would have to be levied by someone else.
That is exactly what he is doing.
How is this man still breathing?
without incurring a direct obligation for itself or for its member states
So who does have the obligation to pay the debt? Lenders tend to be pretty picky about that, George.
The obligation would fall on the countries that George would have the United Europe
conquererr… support and lift up.It’s the reich thing to do.
Those are sudentenEuros they’re just repatriating. Go fourth and spend away.
I’d like to be able to borrow from the market at an advantageous rate without incurring a direct obligation. Sounds awesome. “Here, borrow some money at a low rate. Pay it back whenever you feel like it. Or don’t.”
Was Brooks being clever?
Not bloody likely.
Speaking of paying the ransom, I guess I’ll go give the county some money so they won’t send the sheriff to kick me off “my” land.
– 1 heavily armed compound.
-86 Waco…….
No one owns anything. At best, you rent it from the govt.
amusing Bible stories
Peter’s vision of a sheet with animals
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According to the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 10, Saint Peter had a vision of a vessel (Greek: σκεῦός, skeuos; “a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners”) full of animals being lowered from heaven (Acts 10:11). A voice from heaven told Peter to kill and eat, but since the vessel (or sheet, ὀθόνη, othonē) contained unclean animals, Peter declined. The command was repeated two more times, along with the voice saying, “What God hath made clean, that call not thou common” (verse 15) and then the vessel was taken back to heaven (verse 16).
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Blessed are the omnivores.
I think he just liked saying no three times.
Heh.
“Thou art Peter, and upon this rock, I shall build my church.”
The apostles Scissors and Paper are lost to history.
http://williamgairdner.squarespace.com/journal/2012/3/28/how-canada-opted-for-libertarian-socialism.html
So by implication, for ‘private body libertarian’ to be an accurate description compared to ‘bog standard lefty,’ there would have to be at least one, and preferably lots of, examples where on a social issue he’s taken a position that can be called libertarian and not bog-standard-lefty. Is there any? I don’t know of any, but Canada isn’t really all that important of a country and as long as the
spicemaple syrup flows I don’t worry about its internal politics too much.Think of what is individual, private, and physical: your body.
That’s it, then? Just your . . . meat? Not your mind, your thoughts, your works?
He was a libertarian in that he believed matters of the private body are no one else’s business.
Why do I suspect there are plenty of laws on the books that prove this wrong? Laws about what you put into your body, the risks your body is allowed to take, etc.?
What kind of libertarianism?
Is “not libertarian at all” a kind of libertarianism?
“Why do I suspect there are plenty of laws on the books that prove this wrong? Laws about what you put into your body, the risks your body is allowed to take, etc.?”
The sounds you are allowed to emit with your body…
According to this Canadian Documentary, they seem pretty free with that.
*Cass Sunstein & Will Wilkinson nod assent vigorously*
Pierre if pushed, would have chosen the collective over the individual. Period.
Just watch me!
And the Tribune now owns both the major papers in my region.
I had no idea Tribune Publishing had renamed itself Tronc, Inc. That’s kind of a baffling marketing decision.
I’m pretty sure that’s wrong. Tronc, Inc sounds like an album Daft Punk would have put out in 2007.
Daft Punk would create a website that doesn’t suck like all of the
TribTronc sites.Turdeau Jr. nationalizing oil industry like his daddy. Where’s Cytotoxic?
I don’t know, but he’d love it here. So many fools he could wreck with his unbeatable “Bomb the brown people that stayed in their shitholes, let the rest of them into the country” philosophy.
But Trudeau Sr. didn’t nationalize the oi…
ah, I get it.
Long, very long, review of “Democracy in Chains” in an academic journal: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3175135
From the conclusion:
“MacLean does not provide convincing proofs to sustain the accusations she makes. Determined as she is to portray one man as the mastermind of her story, MacLean tries to make everything fit into that implausible assumption, no matter the cost. This gives an account marred by imprecisions, mistakes, distortions, unproven assumptions about the motives behind each character’s actions and sometimes a surprising lack of rigor. Sadly enough, it is only by misrepresenting her main characters that can MacLean construct the story she insists on telling and that, in the end, proves unconvincing.”
At this point, can we just skip to the chase and call MacLean the fraud and liar that she is?
Pretty much everyone with an ounce of dignity and truthfulness within them has been doing that since the book was published.
Unfortunately no amount of “facts” will convince the vast majority of reviewers here. For some reason.
I think MacLean was the one who said at some Q&A session that libertarianism has a huge amount of autistic people in the ranks.
That was hilarious to me because one of the things autistic people are known for is having very strong logical thinking skills. Whatever drawbacks there may be to autism-spectrum disorders, they’re not known for over-emotional decision making.
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Roseanne should host the next White House Correspondents’ Dinner
This fucking guy right here.
username checks out.
CBS morning show headline (not linking because it’s an idiotic Youtube video): Starbucks’ Howard Schultz: Anti-bias training “just a beginning”
Yes, struggle sessions are usually just the beginning. And we have Schultz previously publicly defaming the store manager as being biased (mostly as a defense & distraction of the company’s previous policy, I think) , so there’s the public denunciation and show trial phase. I hope the former store manager sues the beans of Schultz for his statements.
Starbucks corporate culture is all about the sort of touchy-feely PC shit you see in the stores. They’re also amazingly insular and rigidly structured at every level. I mean, they don’t use any products from outside of the store if they can help it, to the point where they actually make their own cleaning products for use in the store, including bleach. They track inventory down to the toilet paper roll, monitor how much of everything they have on hand, and order all of their inventory from Starbuck’s distribution network. The expectation is that if you work at Starbucks you march in lock-step with the ethos. It’s a little scary, actually.
The expectation is that if you work at Starbucks you march in lock-step with the ethos. It’s a little scary, actually.
Tbh, that’s the right way to run a franchise like that. See Chick-fil-A for a less creepy example.
Starbucks doesn’t franchise. Their stores are all company owned.
The standalone stores are mostly/complete company owned, aren’t they? Are there any franchises other than the grocery store & airport/concessions locations?
You and Dean are right, I was under the impression it was more balanced between franchise and corporate locations. Turns out only ~5k of their locations are franchised. Either way, it makes sense to run a tight ship when you have 12k+ locations.
Used to be all the storefronts were company-owned, and they would license Starbucks branding and products to cafes, etc. that wanted to use it. Surprised they franchise anything.
The article I read may have used the word “franchise” loosely. They were describing the airport/grocery/hospital shops.
My understanding is that they have company-owned stores, but they also have an option where, as you said, entities can get the rights to use the branding and sell the coffee. For example, when you see a Starbucks in a supermarket, that’s not actually a Starbucks store – that’s a supermarket coffee shop that has obtained permission to sell Starbucks coffee, mount a Starbucks sign, and dress the employees in Starbucks uniforms.
That’s where this perception came from that Starbucks stores are everywhere: you can often see a corporate Starbucks location very close to a supermarket/bookstore Starbucks, which leads people to think that the company decided to build two establishments right next to each other.
“The restriction didn’t mean the case could not be reported at all – it just postponed reporting of the proceedings until there was no risk of his case prejudicing another trial.
Today LeedsLive successfully challenged the reporting restriction and it was lifted by the judge.
Unfortunately many publications reported the story on Friday, in breach of the reporting restriction – and these publications could potentially be prosecuted for being found in contempt of court.”
https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/leeds-news/tommy-robinson-jailed-couldnt-report-14704946
The consistency is pretty amazing.
I travel regularly and the ability to know what I’m getting in advance in random locations is priceless. Clean bathroom (usually, or at least before this latest kerfuffle) and a coffee drink that’s almost never going to be awful (but is not going to knock my socks off either).
I’ve drank enough all day truck stop coffee or random coffee shack’s watered down lattes to appreciate Starbucks for what it is. There’s a lot of chains/franchises out there that vary wildly in their quality.
Let me take a few minutes to tell you how wonderful my life has been since I discovered Amway!
Starbucks spokesman just on the news says the sensitivity training session is a “conversation.” Yeah, like what will happen to the barista who raises her hand and says “Is there any reason why white people assume black people commit a disproportionate share of crimes?”
They’ll say it’s from poverty. The fact that a simple look at a breakdown of poverty by race vs crime by race shows no relationship will not sway them. Egalitarianism is axiomatic.
Near my office there’s a Starbucks and a local chain (Gregory’s) across the square from each other when I get off the train to work. This morning I just looked over at Starbucks and chuckled, then headed into Gregory’s.
Why is there not a major Starbucks competitor? How hard is it to make slightly-less-shitty-slightly-less-overpriced coffee?
Dunkin Donuts?
Jesus. Don’t even go there.
Best known for staying open to serve the pigs in BOSTON WEAK.
February 24, 2017: Russian Journalist Arkady Babchenko posts about the campaign against him for daring to report anything negative about Putin, and why he had to flee Russia
May 29, 2018: Russian Journalist Arkady Babchenko murdered in Kiev, Ukraine. Shot 3 times in the back.
Sounds like a suicide.
Or a random stickup up with nothing taken.
There was a KGB defector in the 60s whom the Soviets poisoned with irradiated thalium. They really wanted him dead and wanted the world to know it was the KGB. Less important people got pushed out of windows or an ice pick to the brain.
Sometimes they used a special gas gun which would cause an instant heart attack. That was for cases of plausible deniability. Prussic acid, also known as hydrogen cyanide, is an odorless, colorless, tasteless gas that causes near instant death upon inhalation. The Nazis used the same gas to kill Jews.
I love the headline here:
BREAKING Russian journalist and Putin critic Arkady Babchenko ‘is shot dead in Kiev’
Yes, the scare quotes are in the headline. And from later in the article:
It is thought Babchenko had been been living in Ukraine for several years.
They didn’t know when he fled Russia? Or do they just not want to say who thought it?
shoplifting is a capital offens?
Everything is a capital offense. Nothing can also be a capital offense, if someone calls the police for no reason.
Also, they tried to charge the two women in the car with felony murder?
Goddamn. I’m generally not surprised by anything police do nowadays, but it actually surprises me they’d go that far.
CYA.
Shooting a man in a mini-van in a parking lot has optics issues.
I’m probably wrong, but if they charged the women with murder and the judge threw it out.
Shouldn’t the charges then go to the
BRAVE MEN IN BLUEblue thugs?I must be more cynical than you – that seems like standard cop practice. I was surprised that a judge kicked the charges out before a trial.
Used to be that felony murder was used when the offender (or an accomplice?) killed someone during the commission of a crime, it was automatically first degree murder. Under that definition, this ain’t even close.
Florida Law is broader. It still requires the perp to do the killing to get first degree murder, but when someone is killed by someone other than the perp “during the perpetration of” certain crimes, that can be second-degree murder.
The only problem here is that the cops can still only charge the person who did the underlying crime (no reference to accomplices or co-conspirators). The cops would have to show that the passengers were the ones who actually committed one of the listed crimes. The charge should have never been brought, and the judge got it right.
I have no problem with a narrowly construed felony murder law. Killing somebody while being a felonious thug should come with trumped up charges.
This broader attempt to sidestep proximate causation and get one’s pound of judicial meat is dystopia.
The Florida law is actually not terrible. I’m not crazy about their list of crimes that can trigger felony murder, but at least they limit it to the perpetrator of those crimes.
Without reading the law (maybe I should), the felony murder laws that pin the bank robber with murder when the getaway driver gets spooked and runs over a pedestrian strike me as dubious. The ones that allow the bank robber to be charged with murder when the cop shoots somebody else who vaguely met the description of the robber are evil.
Just in time for my Netflix pitch of Wongshue & Abreu, Extreme Buddy Cops!
Hm, sounds naughty.
Yeah, THEY KILL PEOPLE!
Not the kind of naughty I had in mind 🙁
So “culture War”. Don’t libertarians have their own culture wars? Guns? Free Speech? Yutes moving out? Q’s posts? Are they really that neutral in culture war issues? And how can people be neutral once they get attacked by culture warriors? Or how the term was coined by classical liberals who hoped that public schools would save us from the Pope?
Depends on the definition. When I think culture war, I think of two types of statists battling over which vices should be illegal and which virtues should be mandatory.
To the extent that libertarians engage such issues, they tend not to care for making things illegal nor mandatory.
The last Glibertarian meet-up:
https://twitter.com/Chromakaze/status/1000777980778565633
The culture war matters more than arguing about policies. You aren’t going to convince hardly anyone to change their politics on something like guns, but you may convince them they are in the wrong tribe. However few people will stray far from the cultural tribe they were born in, so demographics matter more than culture.
Sad, but you will probably create more people with your politics by screwing a fertile woman than by writing a best selling book.
Sounds like a terrible fate, especially because I’m way more likely to mate with a beautiful, fertile, young woman than write a bestseller.
What have YOU done for the cause lately, hm, Bob?
Is it bad I found the picture of the crushed man in Pompei funny?
Too soon!!
Was he still wearing the rocket skates?
Laid out with a boulder on his head? Yeah, I lol’d.
The original ‘d’oh’!
Lesions on the skeleton’s tibia are signs of a bone infection that probably hampered the man’s escape attempt
I laughed even harder knowing he was hobbling his best to get away, It’s Monty Python joke zero.
/pounds table giggling.
I’m sure he’d find humour in it too.
Like watching old ladies struggle to get into a bath tub in those commercials that specialize making showers/tubs for the elderly.
Or the medic alert one with the woman lying on the floor.
I love this country.
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/05/29/do-not-roast-marshmallows-over-erupting-hawaii-volcano/
“Here, hold my mai tai…”
Can the last person in Ontario turn out the lights?
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/the-independent-has-made-sure-that-justice-is-seen-to-be-done-in-tommy-robinsons-trial-a8374436.html
So, the Independent thinks that contempt laws and state control of media need to be expanded to deal with the looming peril of . . . Twitter. There’s a “to be sure” paragraph about, gosh darn it, we want to report on the totally justifiable jailing of someone for speaking their mind, but they move rapidly on to how social media is a threat to, get this, due process! In an article about a man who was effectively disappeared, banana-republic style, off the streets of London by the British government. And they are worried about due process.
So close, but missing the other elephant in the room. Secret trials for the rape gangs, which is also counter to traditional English legal principles.
Obvious music for today
“Beyond arming Ukrainians with lethal weapons (which Obama wouldn’t do) and bombing Assad’s assets (which Obama wouldn’t do) and sanctioning key Putin-allied oligarchs, Trump’s officials continue to use their officials accounts to post statements highly critical of the Kremlin:”
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1001576869920235520
Yea, Obama only engaged in arms trafficking with those “moderate” Syrian rebels (because picking out the “moderates” among religious fanatic militants has always worked so well in the past).
Obama played chess like a retard.
Michelle would just knock over all the pieces with her massive cock and declare victory.
*sigh*
*applause*
No. She would just make her opponent give up or have their arms torn off.
See, the only reason the Trump administration kills Russians, thwarts Russia’s foreign policy, and sanctions Russia’s economy, is to throw you off the scent of Russia hacking the election to get Trump in office. Naturally the Russians are on board with Trump killing Russians, thwarting Russia’s foreign policy, and sanctioning Russia’s economy because they know he will have, what’s the phrase, “more flexibility after the election investigation“.
Mueller: “Aha! Saying your not a Russian spy is exactly what a Russian spy would say!”
Oh my God this Roseanne is even more verbal diarrhea than Kanye. How old is she? You know you don’t call a black person an ape, you just don’t! There’s a line! Even if they look like it. Unless you’re the editor of Ebony and Leslie Jones did a skit you found politically incorrect. Then go to town.
Actually truth be told Valerie Jarrett does look pretty Planet of the Apes. I was expecting to see a super ugly broad but it turns out, no, she just looks like Planet of the Apes. And I realized there’s actually not that much relationship between attractiveness and looking (lower) simian than you’d expect, with the exception of attractive women (which it’s pretty hard to be both).
Wanda Sykes may be the ugliest broad ever to walk the earth, almost awe-inspiring in how far out of the park she manages to hit that one, but she looks nothing like a (lower) ape. On the other hand, Josh Hartnett (the turn of the century gonna-be-the-next-Tom-Cruise of the moment) looked like he had a real shot at being the first person to be on the cover of both Tiger Beat and Smithsonian. Chris Kattan looks like so much like a monkey it made his career. Ben Stiller is somewhere in between; if the monkeys really took over could he really become a male model? (Nope. Too short.)
I’m not seeing the ape thing in Valerie, maybe I need a side by side with Vera or whatever the chimp doctor’s name was. Someone set that up and tweet it under your professional name for me, Thanks,
Looks more like it when she takes off the glasses. The glasses are a good move for her; she looks a bit like a less hot-granny Rita Moreno.
Way less.
OK, so here’s my best shot:
Is it live?
Or, Memorex?
It’s kinda hard to defend Roseanne for making the claim that the movie made the kid, and not just saying the character…because that would have been extraspecialraycis, and she knew it.
Oh, the new movie, never saw that one. guess there’s some resemblance but I’d imagine you could say the same for any woman with a similar hairstyle.
Did we already do Volokh’s history of the gun control movement? Best I have seen by a longshot. Everyone should read it.
Bah. Bit of a Gilmore there.
Sykes has gone SJW like Sarah Whatshernameberg.
Ahem, that is Sarah Silverman, you anti-Semite. I am contacting your employer!
Also, since you are Canadian I am having you imprisoned because I’d be surprised if I couldn’t.
I identify as Muppet
I get tired of politics being shoehorned into everything, but when she’s not being political I find Wanda funny. And that humor equals intelligence, which shows in her expression. Said intelligent expression, and fascinating smile, makes her more attractive, regardless of her actual features.
Similar to somebody’s post about properly used tattoos.
Is she black?
I have the same question, I thought she was Persian, or at least partially so.
They’re pulling her repeats too. The unpersoning is nearly complete.
The problem is the idea that calling a black (is she black?) person racist is a high crime. The left defines morality and then we have to follow that morality to get our policies. They are setting the rules to the game, we cannot win.
Freedom of association will remain verboten as long as anti- “lefty chosen group” is equivalent to pedophelia on moral terms.
Jarett will not die because someone compared her to an ape. Even if she said “all black people are apes” it’s just words. Nobody gives a shit about white racism. Tweet all white people are apes, or kill whitey will die nobody cares. You can say worse as a professor. That’s because white racism is in its correct moral place somewhere between farting in public and petty theft where as all other -isms create totally ridiculous and phony gasps of shock. I just don’t give a shit if someone hates a group, I hate plenty, plenty hate me. Without physical harm it’s meaningless.
God damn it, I just hate you sooo fucking much Bob!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paologaudiano/2018/05/29/meritocracy-is-a-chimera/#78ee20a760ac
What the fuck is it with meritocracy this past week?
I know, let’s promote people based solely on superficial characteristics like skin color, sex, and/or how they like to get their jollies. That will be great.
Well, I mean it’s not like that would be the downfall of civilization or anything. I don’t have any problem with gender studies grads building planes and bridges. No siree, because it feelz good! I mean until the bridge falls down and the plane crashes. But that’s just the price we have to pay for equality.
Bridges and planes sound like something only white makes find important. Most future construction will be of safe spaces.
But, those are the ones we need to be the strongest, Bob!
If I was conspiracy minded I might think it was a corrdinated campaign. Anybody see (((them))) around?
Well meritocracy as it defined now isn’t giving them the results they want so they want to redefine it till it does.
I explore the complexities of diversity & inclusion
In other words you’re a second rate mind palming off a third-rate identity politics grift.
Another the results aren’t perfect or at least what I want them to be, so I’ll define the word to mean what I want it to and argue against that strawman thereby”proving” that the concept is invalid
Oh, and I wont propose any meaningful alternative approach. Unless you call flinging buzzwords at the wall meaningful..
These “takedowns” are all the same. You could replace “meritocracy” with, say, “grammar”, “whiteness” or even “Jordan Peterson” and it would work just as well.
https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1001504140512710656
SMDH
Ah yes, Andrea ‘Mrs. Federal Reserve’ Mitchell.
I don’t give a shit about Rosanne, but I applaud her for having the nerve to insult someone’s looks. Pot..kettle…oh, hell that joke is probably racist now.
Weren’t the ratings of the show very strong?
In any event, this political meshing with humour crap has gotten absurd.
Fuck you Meyers you fag.
First show, crazy ratings. I think they fell off pretty sharply after that.
Ah. I didn’t watch it in the 80s and didn’t watch it now.
From what I read it was still the top rated show it just wasn’t the 20 million or whatever the premier was, but that was unsustainable.
Yes. Still doing quite stunningly well, one of those things where it was doing better than anyone thought a show still could do. I can’t believe ABC would do this voluntarily, especially making a decision so rapidly; I think maybe the show was starting to fall apart behind the scenes with talent declaring they would leave.
They would do it voluntarily. Politics is paramount. Humanizing Trump voters was unacceptable. They were just looking to drum up a reason, they wouldn’t stop until they found one.
What? What color is it? Its right there at the tip of your tongue….. JUST SAY IT
Monkey see monkey do!
Oh, crap. Now some people I don’t know are going to tweet some things I won’t read.
Tommy Lee has a Starbucks in his house.
There, I Brooksed my Gilmore.
Does that mean I can waltz in and use Tommy Lee’s bathroom?
“Happy hangover Tuesday. I hope everyone has been successfully pretending to work today. I bring you links.”
Links and tramp stamps, not necessarily in that order. I’ll apologize in advance if someone has already posted the following, but I just got home from pretending to work.
I solved the paradox!
Meh, well he may have, but it’s about as likely as it is that I just solved it. I call a whole lot of bullshit here, maybe derived by the same sort of self loathing that progs so often exude.
No, and just my opinion, but the reason Fermi’s Paradox is a thing is because of the extreme, mind boggling vast distances between stellar objects. We haven’t seen ET yet because he’s too damn far away. We’ve only even been able to detect an alien presence of any sort for less than 100 years if it flew right over our head. The nearest star to us is 4 light years away. Let’s say that 10% of the universe has star systems with planets that have intelligent civilizations. That would probably make the probability of the nearest one to us, hundreds or thousands of light years away. We don’t see ET because he’s too damn far away and we don’t even know how to achieve anything near light speed travel, let alone some exotic technology that would let us get around it.
Then again, it’s looking increasingly likely by just observing our own, that first world problems have probably rapidly outpaced technology and doomed the fuck out of any potential star faring civ long before they get off the planet.
To me, Fermi’s paradox turns on the possibility of FTL travel.
If its simply not possible, period, then the paradox is as you say.
If it is possible, then the paradox has some legs.
I believe, or maybe I just like to believe that it’s possible. After all, a lot of the tech we have today was impossible just a couple of hundred years ago. It would have not been believed if witnessed by most people alive then and would have been attributed to some sort of magic of witch craft. That being said, WE have not achieved it and the likelihood of someone close enough to have achieved it close enough to us to have found us yet, seems pretty remote to me. Possible, just not likely given the odds.
It’s not.
IMO It wouldn’t be worth the trip. Alpha Centauri (IIRC) is the closest star at 4.3 lightyears.
Thats 4.3 years of food, water and fuel…one way and with no knowlege of what you’ll see
when you get there. Rinse and repeat for your return. Granted that is at LS perhaps someday FTL
will happen. But at what time frame to make it worth the trip?
4.3 light years for us here on Earth. For the people on the ship, if they’re traveling near light speed, almost no time will pass.
4.3 years isn’t “almost no time”.
4.3 years objective, significantly less subjective time (for the folks on the ship).
Assuming this can be believed, 1.3 years at .95C:
https://www.quora.com/If-traveling-at-0-95-C-95-light-speed-how-long-would-you-perceive-the-journey-to-alpha-centauri-as
AFAIK, the paradox covers speed of light; a huge number of Sun-like starts are billions of years older than ours and, even at sublight speeds, it only takes millions of years to cross the galaxy.
“a huge number of Sun-like starts are billions of years older than ours”
Are you sure? Most stars that are that old are not sun like stars, I think they are red or orange dwarfs, which can achieve life spans of trillions of years. Just not sure how many of them are older than our sun now. Those stars are also very unstable in their early days. So the paradox seems to center itself on our own observations, which are what? A hundred years that we have even been able to experiment with radio signals? If I were an ET that flew by earth a few thousand years ago, why would I even slow down? To observe the hairless monkeys flinging their own poo at each other?
IANAAP, but I believe the point is that even if they’ve hit later stages of life, there are older Sol-type stars where life as we know it could have already evolved far enough to hit the spacefaring stage, so there has been time for that life to cross the galaxy even at sublight speed.
Your point about poo-flinging monkeys is a common objection, as I understand it – there may be plenty of life, but there’s nothing saying our timelines will overlap in any meaningful way.
Yeah, but even if they could cross the galaxy, there is very low probability they would ever find us. Crossing the galaxy in a straight line is a lot different that charting out every star and checking it out. The galaxy, let alone the universe, is just so vast it might take dumb luck just to run into anyone else, ever.
But let’s try a different angle. Let’s say that the universe is actually like a simulation and that everything it data, not actually physical locations. That puts things more in play in terms of just jumping around from point to point. Or let’s say in a few trillions of years, civilizations are actually extremely advanced around dwarf stars that been stable for trillions of years. Then again, we have the inflation theory problem where the universe is expanding and we keep getting farther away from potential neighbors. I’ll just leave this here, wedonknownuffin.
Yep, “too big” is one of the answers – wiki seems to cover them well:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
“too big”, “too spread out in time”, “civilizations always destroy themselves” up to more out-there ones like “they’re all hiding”, “they’re already here”
We’ve only “advanced” due to the constant struggle and warlike attitude we have. Other civs may not have had that circumstance.
“wedonknownuffin
As ever, the correct answer.”
I mean, seriously, until just a few hundred years ago we were pretty damn primitive. We had agriculture and language, sometimes even written, but besides that, not much. A civ just a few thousand years ahead of us would be so advanced that their technology would seem like magic to us. Well, not really, but you see what I’m saying. If we meet a civ capable of interstellar travel, it would be like the Spanish Conquistadors meeting the native Americans and their cotton armor and obsidian tipped weapons. x1000. They’d just kick our ass all sorts of Sunday however they wanted. We’d best hope they’re nice.
They’d just kick our ass all sorts of Sunday however they wanted. We’d best hope they’re nice.
Heck, even this assumes that they’re animalian aliens. They could just as easily be a sentient sludge trying to find fresh water to purge their cell waste osmotically. Too bad for us that they’re releasing highly toxic compounds into our drinking supply, but they’re impervious to our weapons.
Good video on the Fermi Paradox.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJONS7sqi0o
tl;dr: you need at least two generations of star formation to build up heavier elements. We might be the first ones.
some of the intelligent lifeforms must have developed interstellar travel – because humans are working on it
Are we, though? We seem awfully stuck on electric cars.
We are not working on it and, assuming FTL, it also impossible.
I don’t think know nearly enough yet to say its impossible. Seems the way to bet, but . . . .
I would definitely not be making the statement that it’s impossible. It’s impossible right now. Cell phones were impossible a few decades ago. We’re sort of working on it, the problem is first world problems. NASA is really not working too hard on jackshit other than getting a bigger budget to study global warming or outreach to peace loving Muslims. SJWs and all leftists need to be pushed out of the way, hard, right under an oncoming train, for the good of humanity.
Cell phones were impossible a few decades ago.
Reminds me of a relative of mine. She was my grandfather’s cousin, and was the first female EE grad from Ohio State. She designed radio communication systems during WWII. During one of her less-than-lucid days, she asked “what are all those strange radio towers all across the countryside?” referring to the cell towers. Upon explaining the tech to her, she responded with “hmmm, good idea!”
Cell phones were impossible, but not particularly mind blowing to somebody with a WWII radio background. FTL travel would be a revolution on the scale of giving a 787 to king Tut.
Correct – known principles, just miniaturization required (mostly?).
FTL would require a change to physics as we know it.
(waits to be corrected by an actual physics type).
No, you’re right. FTL is impossible unless we are much worse at physics than we think.
Sure, but what do you think cell phones and the internet would look like to someone living in the 15th century? It would be just as mind blowing. FTL may or may not be impossible. Even if it’s not possible, we could still colonize the starts, just going to take a very long time, during which, I still think it very unlikely we ever encounter anyone else.
“stars”
“SJWs and all leftists need to be pushed out of the way, hard, right under an oncoming train, for the good of humanity.”
If not for them and their ilk we probably would have spanned the galaxy a thousand years ago. Wedonknownuffin is right. In all of the speculation here there is something not figured in. Evolution does not occur at a fixed rate. Evolution does not move in a particular direction other than adaptation. Once a critter is clever enough to become social the sophistication of their societies does not happen at a particular rate.
They are out there and hopefully we will be also one day. I think interstellar travel is possible but not in the conventional sense. Our chances of running into others is pretty slim, thank god.
The paradox is explained by observing an exprapolation from one data point does not create a paradox.
I would agree that there is no paradox.
I read that today and there was no place to comment. It’s late and I havent read all the comments, so maybe someone already said this. He’s right that one possibilty is that we are first. The article does not explain how that means we are fated to kill everyone else. Perhaps the author has it backwards, and the professor believes any civilization colonizing the galaxy has to kill everyone else, but we’re here ipso facto we’re the first.
In any case, a machine intelligence, or meatbags that could hibernate, naturally or artificially, could colonize the galaxy in a million years or so.
However, it’s not just space that is deep, so is time.
And what of intelligences that can’t leave their world or even know they have the option? Planet-wide hive minds, water dwelling creatures under miles of ice, hominids evolved on a planet with no heavy metals?
This article doesn’t even graze the depth of this subject.
“Ivanka Trump is facing backlash for posting this photo of herself embracing her 2-year-old son amid reports of families being separated at the Mexican border”
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1001181816278147075
Leftist journalists post stupid tweets in response to a perfectly normal picture, then turn it into a story. It’s the same as that headass hit-piece on Musk the Dailey Beast retweeted a dozen times.
Gotta love CNN for attacking Trump by making sure as many people as possible see a heartwarming picture of his daughter and grandchild. Frikkin geniuses, they are.
Trump is very fortunate to have such stupid enemies.
Gotta love the contrast between the two pajama boys.
That old Bonaparte quote just keeps coming to mind. “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” CNN are doing it right and they need to double down.
“Tone Deaf Tweet”. Why won’t people live in the reality CNN created?
Reminds me of when the ACLU had to apologize for posting a picture of a baby… they was white. Oh the horror.
I’ll take “Sentences That Sound Perfectly Fucking Normal in Northern Ireland, Alex.
What are we three years into “Brexit.” The votes have no meaning.
They are talking about the recent so-called danger of a so-called “hard border” between ROI and NI. Completely overblown. But here I’m just talking about the bizarro world in which the pro-abort, pro-gay marriage and pro-transgender quasi-retired Marxist terrorists are what you vote for if you are an “extremist Catholic,” especially a working-class one, and not the working-class party that Catholics from everywhere else in the planet (including England, where the Catholics have long been more English than the English; they were eager soldiers for Unionism during the Troubles) would vote for in droves, the DUP (UUP if you still cared about the weird “whore of Babylon” shit, which few do these days).
Here it’s being asserted, “How long will the Catholics put up with abortion restrictions?”
NZ government: “Third-hand meth” is a myth.
However, they can’t bring themselves to compare it to the similar myths about tobacco. Instead, it’s all the fault of those mean private-sector meth-testing companies.
wait, wut.
I’ve been told i had a third arm, but not 3rd hand.
Does your dick come out of your chest like Tommy Wiseau’s?
No, but that doesn’t make my innovative juggling routine any less impressive.
::Thunderous, three-limbed applause::
I agree. It’s a human life, whatever the details. It’s in poor taste. So yeah, I’m gonna need more time. Sue me.
You can have a laugh and still feel good about yourself while doing it. Enjoy a good old fashioned knock-knock joke. Or a Seinfeld routine. Or this. The classics.
I’m not gonna judge you. To me, the thought of running for your life while school bus size burning boulders are being hurled through the air, doesn’t really tickle my funny bone. But, it’s all in the context I suppose.
You never read my links, Hyperion, and it hurts me!
Nobody reads the links around here.
Click on a couple of HM links, and you learn your lesson.
Drinking two glasses of beer or wine a day healthier than daily exercise, study claims.
I drink 3 or 4 a day, so I’m TWICE as healthy!
Compare your lives to mine and then kill yourselves!
And if you don’t waste time exercising, you’ll must be even healthier.
You’ll notice that most people famous for exercising are dead: Charles Atlas, Jack LaLanne, Joseph Pilates, Mama Cass…
You forgot my favorite Jim Fixx, wrote The Joy of Running (or some such nonsense) Died a few years later while…running.
Can’t deny he died doing what he loved best… gasping for air.
I was a Jim Fixx fan ’til I read his book and he said one does not need a shower after running, just wipe off the sweat with a clean towel. I ignored that part of the book and most of my friends were probably grateful that I took a shower before I went to work or play.
Compare your
liveslivers to mine . . . .Studies are like opinions. If you don’t like the current one, just find another one that proves just the opposite. There won’t be any lack of those.
Stupinions must be a real word, no? If not, I claim it.
Some guy has it as his twitter handle. Would make an awesome blog name.
Everything has been invented. Darn. Close the patent office.
Except he never said that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Holland_Duell#Everything_that_can_be_invented_has_been_invented
“Dennis Crouch saw a correlation between the expression and a joke from an 1899 edition of Punch magazine.”
Crouch a relative, Winston?
Craunch the marmoset?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_As_She_Is_Spoke
I’m gonna assume a “whoosh” over my head. Still, looks like a funny book.
I was surprised to find I had a fatty liver. I’ve been working that fucker hard for decades. Seriously, I should have the LeBron Fucking James of livers.
“Ignoring health advice from experts increases your lifespan by a decade”
Speaking of goofy health advice:
I was out jogging today in my Xero sandals, and some man with a cigarette in his mouth points down at my feet and says, “that’s bad for you!”
Had a chief master sergeant in the air force that liked to do the 1-1/2 mile fitness run while smoking a cigarette.
Our First Shirt had to light up immediately on finishing – to catch his breath.. It realy seemed like the smoke helped him breath.
I could do that, too- in my twenties. Keep smoking for twenty more years and see what happens. Quitting was the best decision ever.
“Be careful reading health books, you may die of a misprint.” – wain
Well, my dad is 91 and I’m pretty sure he has had one beer a night four as long as i have known him.
The late Thomas Fleming, who wrote an excellent book on Wilson’s entry into WW1 which everyone should read, praised History News Network, which he contributed a few pieces to, in the early ’00s.
If so they must have gone rapidly downhill when they left George Mason for George Washington University. Because this, from a man who brands himself online as “The Progressive Professor,” is typical of their quality right now.
Looks like trash to me. And they are linking the History Channel. Ancient Aliens anyone? SCIENCE, WE FREAKING LOVE IT!
Also there’s this, from a so-called “keen amateur archaeologist” who “is passionate about history, usually preferring to champion the underdog.” It not only embodies a mythical trope so long ridiculed among English historians that it has a name–“The Norman Yoke”–but also repeats as fact the “no thicker than your thumb” story that is one of the most widely cited examples of “urban legend” in works written for children. What’s next, “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge”?
Conquest’s law, skinsuit, etc.
“Hello, have you met the Internet? Everyone gets harassed regardless of gender, especially if they say false things. Saying I’m against science is like saying Beyoncé doesn’t know beats. Blowback from latter (all genders) would make my comment stream seem like Socratic dialogue.”
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1001507474946560000
Oooh, now he’s done it. It’s a matter of religious conviction that women suffer more abuse online, and that such abuse comes primarily from men.
It’s adorable that you think little snowflake men get more abuse online. Many women have to fight like banshees to keep shitlords off our platforms.
I don’t think most men consider anything that happens online to be in the category of “abuse.”
Women and snowflake men probably have the lions share of abuse by virtue of defining it uniquely.
If you can look past the prog angle that mars them and appreciate their observations from our angle, there is a lot for folks likeminded as us to appreciate in a couple of pieces on the late great Richard Pryor. This one on his decline…
…and this one on his Hollywood Bowl “meltdown.”
Have we covered this latest from King Andrew?
Rufus you should sue their asses for using a unit of measurement you cannot understand.
Don’t they mean the “Royale”?
And it’s not .30 to .90 cents, unless the price difference between the two items is less than a penny.
Baby, you are so money, and you don’t even know it.
Surprised the coin makes them look like they’re the same height.
See? The information revolution is already reducing health care costs.
Incredibly, the mum of three felt no pain due to severe nerve damage she suffered having the implants put in.
Jeebus on a cracker. They were cartoonishly huge, too. I don’t know how she didn’t just bleed out.
She wouldn’t have been able to do it if the knife had a round end instead of a point.
“14 years ago, when huge boobs were in fashion”
So that’s why Q isn’t here. He’s working on a time machine.
I literally just laughed out loud
Who the hell writes this shi…stuff.
Seriously, though: If you think this, I’ve got some bad news for you about the reality of life.
Surprised no one did this for the Obama administration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC1mabrcIOc
My god, how many times are you going to post this?
It’s getting to be a habit with me….
From the thing I brought up a couple weeks ago about employee ownership…
Other People’s Money–the movie where Danny DeVito’s corporate raider made that awesome “buggy whip manufacturer” speech–filmed its scenes in an actual New England wire factory. This is what happened to them almost immediately afterward.
Are there any ESOPs that haven’t ended in Hindenburg style implosions?
New Belgium?
Winco.
That’s a great scene – my finance professor rolled in a TV & VCR to show us that.
The un-Gilmored (and unsurpassed in quality) Volokh piece on the history of the gun control movement.
Eat your hearts out, subsidiarity fetishists.
Also, most people are too stupid and ignorant to even know what a noncommunicable disease is. How can you expect them to make decisions about their own bodies themselves? This is why it is the new frontier in the fight for a truly public health.
Government can help improve the lives of citizens by getting the hell out of the way.
“help cities collect data that proves policy innovations are working”
Kind of begging the question there, aren’t they?
Who am I to argue against the man pissing away his billions on such… uh, successful initiatives.
Cleavage.
http://thechive.com/2018/05/29/dr-downblouse-says-your-vitals-are-ayyyy-ok-41-photos/
Number 3 is enough for me.
Thanks. Love going in to work with boner.
I think 1 just pooped in her pants a little.
Trump in Nashville…
Actually pretty entertaining.
You Know Which other Republican went to Nashville.
Elvis?
The California primary election is soon, so there are lots of “I can out-prog you!” ads.
my current favorites:
– Current state controller intones very seriously that he will balance the budget *and* bring health care to all. Sure you will, dude, pick one. though you do get at least one cookie for mentioning the budget at all.
– Kamala shilling for some chick running for Lt Governor who will apparently be the second coming of Jesus for immigrants from a position with no power whatsoever!
– Democrats who are receiving tons of out of state billionaire money complaining about out of state billionaires funding their opponents
– Newsome being the only person to even mention the Republican candidate, including the republican candidate himself.
it’s just hilarity all around, really.
” Current state controller intones very seriously that he will balance the budget *and* bring health care to all. ”
Yeah, right, besides the already discovered fact that socialized healthcare would cost more than the entire CA GDP. Which is why they quickly scrapped it and shut up about it. You have to be incredibly stupid to be a Democrat voter. They don’t even try to hide their lies anymore, they just depend on you being that dumb.
This Canadian will tell you that it doesn’t work that way…
Which Canadian?
Me…
Health”care” for all is easy enough (and cheap): you apply for aid, you’re put on a list. You will never, ever receive your procedure, but since you’re waiting, you’re technically covered.
I once had a discussion with a supporter of “universal” healthcare, and I pointed out the fact that people frequently die while waiting for treatment (which creates the illusion that it makes healthcare cheaper – if the cancer kills you first, the cost to the state is very low).
The response I got was, “Well at least they’re ON a waiting list!”
Fuckin’ bread line jockeys.
If you followed any Canadian election then you would know that funding healthcare is always an issue…
“It’s never enough, but don’t you dare raise my taxes”?
And they are all running against Trump. It’s like a drinking game.
What is the difference between California Dems and Ontario NDP?
We’re American and you’re…………..not
/We still have Guns in Cali
Why the preoccupation with interstellar travel, anyway? Seems like our first priority ought to be a solar diaspora: moon colonies, Mars colonies, O’Neill cylinders.
First priority should be orbital construction facilities. Once you have that, the rest comes much easier.
And what’s the preoccupation with colonization?
IMO, there is no need or value for us to colonize anything in our solar system at all.
Colonization makes sense for 2 reasons:
1) redundancy in case of global cataclysm
2)lower cost to orbit from places like the moon and Mars than earth.
1 doesn’t really matter. 2 is the motivation that would spur on colonization.
Why do you say 1 doesn’t matter? We’re one stray asteroid away from global cataclysm.
Because nobody is dropping hundreds of billions of dollars on an europan colony for redundancy’s sake. The motivation for colonization will be shorter term and profit driven
Oh, agreed – redundancy is a necessary, but not sufficient reason. Profit will get us there.
(also, I read that as “european colony” about 3 times – very confused by that).
ahhhh, Europa…
Don’t you piss on my dream of a libertopia space habitat with blackjack and hookers.
No piss hookers in space, too messy
You’re thinking too small – there’s spin-gravity on libertopia.
I saw Piss Hookers in Space open for The Genitorturers back in ’96.
Did you ever see Who is Jawn Galt play in some dude’s basement?
I think the point is to search for something useful. Thus far there ain’t much more reason to go to mars than there is to to to the top of Everest. You can do it to say you did, but not because you want to live, or hang out there. Potentially other stuff more interesting exists.
Hey Bob! I’m Bob, Fuck off!
/Welcome?
Sure, for things like colonizing mars. But to utilize resources, like mining astroids or skimming hydrogen from the surface of jupiter, you need to send ships from outside the gravity well of earth, which means at least stations in a LaGrange orbit. A rail gun on the moon could be useful, too.
Of course, what we really need is a space elevator.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/neoliberalism-colonised-feminism-metoo-sheryl-sandberg-hollywood-a8367326.html
I’m not even going to try to unpack that nonsense.
What dressing is on that word salad?
RUSSIAN!!!
“Incessantly inciting women to accept full responsibility for their own wellbeing and self-care, neoliberal feminism ultimately directs its address to the middle and upper-middle classes,”
The horrors, the cruelty. Expecting women to take care of themselves.
I wouldn’t mind having enough money to move away from the Scum of the Earth, I could separate my Wimmin folk from the Trash of life
Spoken like a true shitlord.
Fuck Yea!
https://www.alternet.org/how-replace-neoliberalism-caring-economy
Starbucks sensitivity training leaked:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuHmFkbuihc
Lisa – would.
“The Truth About LGBT In The Middle East”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPcHKyCL7DA
Worth reposting, since the American left like to claim they are pro-LGBT (even though they were too cowardly to do anything), and support radical Islam at they same time.
Also, anyone who doesn’t support this:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bi7gNdADGhO/
Is just un-American, a needs to go back to Saudi Arabia.
The fruits of freedom: a total package! There’s something for everyone! For Q, for HM, for Rhywun…
and plastic surgery fans…
How’d I get dragged into this?!
Diego is Tulpa………..
Dammit! He look like a Girl! a patriot Girl but still…………..
Meh.
I was always more of a Bailey Quarters guy than Jennifer Marlowe.
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Udv9t4EyQNw/WULVUcWXaVI/AAAAAAAAOZQ/kLHpxNkmXGEiFEf4GpdOO4IE-0UUCE4gACLcBGAs/s1600/jan%2Bsmithers%2B1966.JPG
Don’t tell me she has a dick too!
I’d like to thank whomever recomended and #metooed Citizen X. I watched it last night and it was great.
Citizen Kane and American History X,
A mishmash of Great movies, based on your Comment
Good movies
So… the dude he curbstomped was named Rosebud?
American History X is meh as fuck and even Capt. Sisko could not save it. I think you mean Malcolm X.
But if it were based on American History X, I think at least Citizen X’s xenophobia toward Visitor Q would be justified.
Regarding Valerie Jarrett, the first time I saw her picture, i said “right out of Planet of the Apes” her Nose doesn’t look natural, like a make up shop would do, She Weird lookin……
Robby is at it again.
http://reason.com/blog/2018/05/29/roseanne-barr-valerie-jarrett-cancelled
Well, he’s right about that.
I will. And it looks like I’ll be buying the box set now that the entire history of the show – second only to Seinfeld in its day IMHO – is being disappeared.
I hate everyone.
FUCK. YOU. MICROSOFT! QUIT AMBUSHING ME WITH AUTO UPDATES! QUIT FUCKING RESTARTING MY FUCKING MACHINE BEHIND MY BACK! QUIT BREAKING MY FUCKING NIC TO THE POINT MY MOTHERBOARD DOESN’T EVEN RECOGNIZE IT’S PLUGGED IN! QUIT FORCING ME TO ROLL BACK EVERY. FUCKING. UPDATE. YOU MOTHERFUCKERS PUSH!
Let’s play what or who does Jarrett look like?
The progs are feasting on this idiocy. ‘Everyday racism in America’ led by Al Sharpton. Awesome.
Roseann has a point.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133152/mediaviewer/rm2388498432
For you New Yorkers. Watching Pix11 and they’re reporting on this yellow cab protest and the string of suicides. One of the demands is they want the government to provide financial relief for struggling yellow cab owner-drivers and raise fare rates.
I don’t know much about this but if it’s like Montreal, who forced them to pay for the permit to be cab drivers and the problem is there’s too much regulation. They don’t operate in a normal market environment.
I meant to ask: Thoughts?
The city has operated a monopoly for decades, and kept the supply of cabs artificially low – that is the only reason the medallions cost over a million dollars. So yes, in a sense, the city is directly responsible for those deaths. Do I want to pay for it? Fuck no. It’s not my fault people got suckered into this scheme.
We ain’t got cabs n Ubers nor Lyfts in these here parts. If you want a ride feller jus call a friend.
I’ve never ridden in a cab in Wisconsin despite living there 20 years.
I rode in a handicap taxi once when my dad’s handivan croaked; but never a regular taxi here, but I’ve seen them around in towns bigger than mine. I have no idea about what regulations are in place for them.
when my dad’s handivan croaked
Your dad is OMWC?
Suicides, or not able to make the repayments?
Pretty much every mid to large station here has rows and rows of Taxis sitting there all day. No way that happens in a free market. The min taxi fare has doubled over the past 15 years. Set by law. Ridiculous govt meddling.
FWIW, NYC figured out a way to fuck users of taxi alternatives, too. I paid 80 bucks for an Uber from LaGuardia to Brooklyn the other day. OK, my company paid for it. Free market my ass.
It’s wild that for some reason the laziness that usually accompanies market capture doesn’t happen with the Taxi drivers here. They are spotless and the service is great. The drivers spend all that open time by cleaning their rides.
They’re just scouring the backseat in hopes of finding lost panties.
That’s pretty good.
I meant to add that while I get “surge” pricing – it was a busy time – I also noticed that our NYC Uber drivers are actually TLC folks (Taxi and Limousine Commission). IOW, they’re not moms ‘n’ pops looking to make an extra couple bucks in their free time. In fact, they’re all existing limo drivers who partner with Uber now. I am certain the rates they charge are jacked up by city regs.
Yeah, the whole ‘gig’ economy thing was all about using idle resources for extra cash. Then people thought not just that they could, but should be able to make a whole living off of it, and governments thought they could use it to expand their influence. People are idiots.
I just saw the commercial for the all female remake of the Oceans 11 movie. WTF
I think it’s about time to remake 9-5 with a male cast. 3 dudes being kept down by thier touchy feally female boss, that kidnap her and transform the company to a well oiled machine in her absence.
Staring Vince Voghn as the newbie, Channing Tatum as the pretty boy, and Bill Burr as the grizzled veteran.
As long as you can get Kanye to sing a cover of the title song.
Or how about we make movies that are about telling a good story, not about pushing identity politics?
Fully agree. I’m just making a joke about the current ridiculous nature of the ideas Hollywood producers have been greenlighting for the past few years.
Yeah, I’m with Timeloose. Oooh, check out Mr. Industry Professional over here, getting all serious! Don’t step on his joke dude; see if you were a dilettante you’d have known that from improv class.
I never took improv class; I AM A CLASSICALLY TRAINED ACTOR!
I don’t think Vince Vaughn can plausibly convince anyone he’s a “newbie” at anything at this point. Otherwise, solid idea.
True. I’m imagining Vince Voughn in 1996.
Newbie doesn’t have to be young. His character is a chronically underemployed older white male with a college degree of more importance than that of his new boss. But he keeps getting fired because he is a bit too rowdy in the office. Sounds like a perfect Vince Vaughn character actually.
No way this guy holds steady employment.
This is real? Never heard of it.
It is real, and this happens.
Sounds like me in a couple years.
Here is a grizzled veteran.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U38af8UjJ6s
OMG so problematic I can’t even.
I aspire to be a stay at home dad; but shockingly potential mates don’t find that a desirable career path for their men.
I’d watch the hell out of that movie, man. Who plays the boss though?
Drew Barrymore?
I see more Jennifer Aniston from Horrible Bosses.
She needs to be believable as being stupid like Dabney Coleman and not as attractive as she thinks she is. Jennifer Aniston fails in that last regard.
Then go whole hog and get Melissa McCarthy or Rebel Wilson. Them Hollywood writers love them some fat jokes.
[Also, I know I’m a straight man, but Dabney Coleman isn’t attractive? Maybe I need to rethink some of my style choices.]
I think Gavin McLeod if you have to go with suave funny bald guys from 40 years ago.
Maybe they work at the headquarters of some online retailer.
Judith Light?
Well this pretty much nails it:
Waste Of Time: Starbucks Closed Down For Anti-Bias Training Today Even Though We’ve Moved On And Are Mad About Other Things Now
Heh it’s like The Onion still lives.
I think it was National Review that praised the Onion recently in contrast with other left-leaning humor sites, and it alerted me to ResistanceHole’s existence. Seems hilarious from what I’ve seen.
This is the problem I’m having with the Hat and Hair cartoons. By the time I conceive, find audio for, write, animate and have the site publish a cartoon the outrage against Trump has moved onto another thing. And I’m not even talking on a timescale usually it takes to make a cartoon, just my quick one’s that I make in a day and the site publishes a few days later.
Is this you providing the commentary for your edit or is it someone else?
This may be a stupid question, but I haven’t watched it yet.
No, as I explained in my article about my fan edits, the Phantom Edit was it’s own thing.
Oh so that is not yours? I didn’t know there were multiple fan edits; seems like an enormous project. Well, I suppose I’ll get filled in soon enough. Where is your article (assuming you have a link to your edit there)?
It was right here on the site, I assumed that’s what you were referring to.
Naw; you talked about having a fan edit last night I think; that’s why I knew you had one but not that it wasn’t Phantom.
Thanks though! Looks good!
Lots of people do fan edits.
Question for classy types like Gilmore, or anyone else who might know the Buckleys: is it possible for ashes to turn over in their urn?
I don’t know, but I know you can go from Autumn to Ashes.
Great piece from The Federalist on something I’d discussed a couple weeks ago: clinical psychology’s politicized, hypocritical fixation with gay conversion therapy (of which, indeed, there is currently no effective treatment paradigm); and the morally reprehensible, also hypocritical, essentially anti-science-in-spirit government oppression of it.
Few mild surprises with the Roseanne coverage. National Review runs two pieces tearing her a new one; Robby Soave goes far easier on her than them, and certainly far easier than most had expected. Slate (i.e. The Root lite), of course, never changes. Author was preparing an essay on the show’s “immorality” when the story hit. Now she takes the opportunity to say it was only cancelled because the ABC chair is black; a white person would have just given Roseanne a slap on the wrist.
That don’t look like no fucking clown to me.
Top comment:
Nailed it! Seriously, I felt like the right analysis was on the tip of my tongue; I just couldn’t get to it. This is exactly correct.
Twitterverse:
A small victory. Just a bit of Debra Messing’s pain eased.
Burn!
Also check out first reply, from a Millennial who apparently thinks this man is in his 70s.
Awkward!