Oh look at that, the death march has ended. Well, maybe it is just on hiatus. But out of the 8 hour planning meeting (I was begging for someone to kill me, or at least accuse me of molesting children so I could go to jail and get the shit kicked out of me by violent felons in Detroit) came a list of every task I am responsible for over the next two weeks, and a blanket agreement that all meetings that aren’t (a) a daily 30 minute status meeting or (b) scheduled in that status meetings are not valid on my calendar. So, amazingly, I am crushing it today at work since I can actually, you know, do the work. Somehow attending planning meetings about what work to do and how to do it diminishes my immediate productivity. I’m sure there’s a SCRUM fix for that. Alas, installing M$ Azure Tools for SSIS on not quite the latest version of Visual Shitshow has my computer DL’ing a 3 gig update file. So you get my links.
Big thanks to the people who stepped up for me last week. They bring the quality, I just bring quantity.
Get’cher moral panic right here: 1300 sex offenders’ addresses in MO can’t be verified! They’re probably rapin’ kids at a local elemetary! If anyone involved in this story had a conscience, they’d admit that the list does absolutely nothing and it should be dropped.
Today’s “Money wasted studying the obvious” winner: Lonliness is felt more intensely by the young!
I hope I get this guy as a driver when I’m transported to the camps.
In: The World is Getting Better News: Health officials openly and credibly discuss goal of ending HIV transmission in the US. One assumes that making PREP available OTC would be a huge part of this, but that may just be crazy thinking.
Thankfully, many of our Glibertariat has no reason to worry about “winter vagina” affecting their sex lives. 😉
Since I just came home from Motown, here’s a little throw-back.
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1300 sex offenders’ addresses in MO can’t be verified!
They probably lost Kavanaugh’s too
Maybe Maxine Waters’ aide will tweet them out.
From the Winter Vagina article, a link to:
“No more shaving or waxing, the full bush is back”
The fuck it is.
Hey, who here remembers Salon’s “Shave your bush to protest Bush” headline?
There’s an intermediate step missing there – a neatly trimmed landing strip.
I’m okay with my wife doing this for both weeks of winter, here.
Nature’s sweater?
You just have to get the summer air out.
“The temperatures have begun to drop, which can wreak havoc on parts of your body.”
STEVE SMITH WREAK HAVOC YEAR ROUND
STEVE UNDERSTAND THAT PROLAPSE AM VERY SENSITIVE TO COLD.
Geez – is that the Mirror or Teen Vogue??
I was hoping for a pidgin version of that article.
I wondered if the glibertariat had an opinion on this.
I’m always willing to donate saliva to the cause.
Awesome music selection.
Welcome back.
+1
I had forgotten how good this one was.
I hope I get this guy as a driver when I’m transported to the camps.
Was he a PETA plant?
Headline says: 11 cows killed, 77 rounded up
Definitely a PETA plant.
I think PETA would make it happen the opposite.
Yes. They love killing animals.
No chance he’s a PETA agent.
PETA isn’t remotely this effective.
Either way, that’s a shitload of cows for 1 truck.
They were traveling in cattle class.
*narrows gaze*
Just a narrow gaze? That was worthy of rotten vegetables. Frozen, so they leave a mark.
Or in Steerage.
*APPLAUSE*
That was some quality traffic.
First they came for the cows …
I wouldn’t want James Comey on my side any more than Micheal Avenatti.
Money quote: “We also live in a world where a sitting federal judge channels the president by shouting attacks at the Senate committee considering his nomination and demanding to know if a respected senator has ever passed out from drinking. ”
Yeah, because that’s totally what happened. Reality based community.
Umm… Is Ted Kennedy’s memory that far gone? Or his drinking buddy Chris Dodd?
amateurs
John Tower FTW
Somebody has the records of the Senate hush fund, let’s take a look.
“They also know that little lies point to bigger lies.”
So, Clapper, McCabe, Brennan, Ben Rhodes, Strzok, Ohr……
Like Mr. Comey’s?
Oh, I’m sure he didn’t mean it that way.
Well…. he’s lying in that statement right there.
If you didn’t watch the hearings, Comey would have you believe that Kavanuagh, out of nowhere, demanded to know if Klobuchar had ever blacked out from drinking. SHE was the one to ask HIM the inappropriate question, and he REPLIED “Have you?”.
Because Comey is a liar.
On the plus side, the shitheels are really showing their hand now.
See also, Trump demanded Comey’s loyalty, so obstruction.
“Respected senator”
We have those now?
The entire article is cringe worthy. Every single sentence.
I don’t exist in the same reality as these people. There’s no common ground. There’s no where to compromise.
LOLOOOLLLOOLOLOLOLOLOL
Awesome music! welcome back to the real scrum…
THIS is a real scrum…
Guy on the red team in the foreground. Wood.
That pic is too grainy to make out any details.
All this objectification of men! I can’t even…
“the great @jemelehill”
The Atlantic is a very serious periodical of the highest quality. That’s what I’ve been told in the past.
I’ve read an old scholarly book on the history of Reconstruction that heavily relied on reports in the Atlantic Monthly.
“Fables of the Reconstruction”?
+8 drivers
“no team nor party”
At one point it was, even during the first Obama Administration it was still pretty good. Then 2012 rolled around.
They still sometimes accidentally publish something worth reading, but 90% of what they churn out is indistinguishable from the likes of Vox or Salon now.
Then 2012 rolled around
Wasn’t that the year we all died because of the Mayan calendar?
Coincidence? I think not.
I would not like to subscribe to that newsletter.
Code name: Man Repellent
This is what an academic equivalent of self-immolating in protest is like:
Cern scientist Alessandro Strumia suspended after comments
Prof Strumia, who regularly works at Cern, was speaking at a workshop in Geneva on gender and high energy physics.
He told his audience of young, predominantly female physicists that his results “proved” that “physics is not sexist against women. However the truth does not matter, because it is part of a political battle coming from outside”.
He produced a series of graphs which, he claimed, showed that women were hired over men whose research was cited more by other scientists in their publications, which is an indication of higher quality.
He also presented data that he claimed showed that male and female researchers were equally cited at the start of their careers but men scored progressively better as their careers progressed.
It’s an equivalent of coming to an Ecumenical Council cca 850 and stating “God is dead, and The Emperor is naked.”
Politics is ruing everything — science, education, sports, comedy, etc.
HERETIC!
Or denying the existence of STEVE SMITH while going on a gentle hike in the woods
STEVE SMITH GREATEST TRICK – MAKE WORLD BELIEVE HIM NO EXIST.
I would argue it is not his greatest trick, and by trick mean…
Related, the American Historical Review is also partaking in struggle sessions:
“Let me offer two examples, from initial very crude data dives. To the consternation of some observers, all four of the “featured” book reviews in our April 2018 issue appraised books written by men. I retorted—correctly, I believe—that the demographic makeup of any single issue of the journal is a poor measure of anything. I would rather not have it turn out this way, but once we commission featured reviews, we have only so much editorial control over what is copy-ready in time for our publication deadline. The question is what books have received featured reviews over the longer haul. Anyone can go back and count, of course, but I felt an editorial responsibility to do so myself. I can report that of the last 100 books that have received a featured review in the AHR, 71 were written by men, and only 29 by women. To the degree that a featured review indicates that the AHR recognizes a book as “of particular interest” (as we say on our website), I would agree that this pattern is problematic and requires correction. Either what we deem to be professionally significant is skewed male, or there is something else about our selection process for featured reviews deserving of scrutiny.”
You would be wrong
Thank goodness for California, where women will finally have some representation.
Finally!
Obviously they weren’t smart or motivated enough to achieve it themselves.
**Ducks*
Maybe Papa John can mansplain to him where exactly he went wrong.
Obligatory.
There’s a dangerous menace lurking in American backyards: the lawnmower.
51,000 injuries over a seven year period, huh? So that’s roughly 7000 per year…..out of how many hundreds of millions of uses of lawnmowers in any given year?
My neighbor alone mows his grass hundreds of millions of times a year.
Ha. I mow my own grass and I prefer to do it in the evening with beer. Its really simple but to hurt yourself on a lawn mower. Stay out of the blades and keep the machine upright and you’re good to go.
I’ve mowed grass for a good chunk of my life. It became one of my regular chores around age 12. Continued to be one until I moved out of my parent’s house at age 22. At 30, bought a house with my wife and again started mowing the lawn regularly, so for 21 of my 41 years I’ve mowed the lawn. Estimating at once a week for six months a year, that’s in the ballpark of 780 times, not counting the lawns I sometimes mowed for cash in my youth. Not once have I ever injured myself because, as you said, I stay away from the blades and the engine when it is running.
I don’t believe an accident is possible with a mower built in the past 10 years. You would have to try to injure yourself (or someone else) on purpose. There aren’t any models that turn the blade if you’re not holding the handle properly.
Now if they’re talking about riding mowers, I bed injuries are from flipping them from being a dick while driving them.
Ah, yes, Harvey Fite.
I have been mowing the lawn at my house for about 50 years. Started doing it when the place belonged to my grandmother. That’s a lot of mowing.
NEEDS MOAR FUNDING
No amount of funding is going to fix stupid.
NEEDS MOAR SCHWENGEL
Stan Schwengel and Yosh Shwengel, that is.
“Cold weather causes ‘winter vagina’, midwife warns – and it could affect your sex life”
I guess they couldn’t find a witch doctor to ask. Vaginal dryness isn’t caused by weather.
Right? It’s caused by Brett Kavanaugh.
Dryness seems more like a problem for her. If it’s tight and warm, that’s good enough for me.
Dryness seems more like a problem for her.
Wrong. Unless you enjoy extended period of celibacy, then her dryness is also your problem.
He’s never had anyone want to do it a second time, so there’s that.
*rimshot*
Like I said earlier, Ford doesn’t know what exculpatory means because exculpatory evidence doesn’t exist in her line of work.
I keep hearing “I don’t understand” in a talking doll voice.
My first response to hearing her speak was “Is this a joke?”
It’s a joke, but not a funny one.
The punchline is coming next week.
“Vocabulary class is hard!”
I refuse to entertain this retarded conversation. No offense to you. She’s not delusional, she’s lying and people are too gutless to call her out on it. She was coached for her interview. Her attempts at tears were fake. Nothing demonstrates that better than her smile before her I fucking love science answer on memories. She’s a fraud. They know she’s a fraud, too.
This is all purely political.
The collective unwillingness to even broach the idea that she’s lying about the whole thing because muh abortions is the last thing that fascinates me about this piece of theater. Why would anyone continue playing by the rules where rule 1 is “you lose”?
That’s the whole point of the whole #believeher #believewomen thing. They control the narrative. The narrative is infallible. Anyone not in lockstep with the narrative is Not of The Body and must be purged.
She also didn’t know in 2012 that her house had two front doors for at least 4 years.
But my favorite is that she couldn’t testify on Monday because she couldn’t fly. So she flew in for Thursday.
Is that story about her house remodel being years before her “unloading” on her therapist legit? Someone linked it the other day but I hadn’t seen it anywhere else.
Seems legit.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/09/this-doesnt-look-good-business-was-listed-operating-out-of-christine-fords-home-would-explain-second-door/
I already made this joke, but she can only fly on planes with two front doors.
Cleveland has a very interesting Twitter rant (God I hate those multi-part twitters) arguing that Ford’s story has not only been shifting, it has been shifting in very particular ways designed to avoid being contradicted by information as it came to light, and to be made even more non-falsifiable. The handwritten statement (with many edits) that she was polygraphed on is particularly interesting, as all the edits were to make it less specific. I wonder, personally, if the edits were made on the fly to come up with a passing polygraph statement.
Apparently, her house may have had two doors the whole time because the prior owner used it as a home office. Which makes the whole two doors thing, which is central to the critical “corroboration” that she told her therapist about being assaulted because that is why she wanted two doors on her house, even more bizarre.
And by bizarre, you mean “suspicious as all fuck”
Alright, my timing is off. Apparently the house is now being listed as the office for a counselling business which apparently has nothing to do with Ford.
Which is strange. I wonder if she is allowed to rent out part of her house for business purposes under the local zoning code?
Linked to this on twitter a little while earlier. Guess the quake in Palu was worse than I heard initially. Blows my mind that the tsunami took so long to arrive with a comparatively short distance – esp with underwater wave speed.
Either way, that’s what you call a real hero. God Bless!
Oh shit. He died?
I thought he was in the hospital with a broken leg!
That’s some toxic masculinity right there.
Uffda. There is nothing more embarrassing than having your tongue get stuck to a frozen winter vagina. Never accept a double dog dare!
I don’t know
but I’ve been told,
frozen Eskimo vagina
is mighty cold
Just how frigid was she?
You’ll shoot your vagina out, kid!
Sure, gynecologists have spoken out against the necessity of vaginal steaming
So if it’s frozen, you just steam it open?
Sounds reasonable.
If you have to steam a vagina to get it open, that’s gonna be a bad lay.
Maybe there’s a love letter inside?
Or you get to re-use the stamp?
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1046594628005363718.html
This whole thread by Seth Abramson is so unbelievably stupid that you have to suspend all logic to think that he’s making any sense.
He just basically take facts unrelated to Ford’s allegations against Kavanaugh and says “corroborated” as if that makes any sense.
From the thread:
“Did Dr. Ford know Kavanaugh? Yes. CORROBORATED”
Are you reading my comment? Yes. CORROBORATED
Did Kavanaugh deny the allegations? Yes. CORROBORATED
I’m not even going to click. There’s absolutely no evidence that before last week that Ford had even been in the same building as Kavanaugh.
“This whole thread by Seth Abramson is so unbelievably stupid”
I’m not sure if his numbered tweet storms are due to drugs or hypermania.
Corroborated means “there’s a possibility they had once met each other since they had overlapping social circles”?
I love how the responses are so taken aback by how profound this is and are tweeting the FBI and senators like it’s some monstrous revelation. They’re just so ready and waiting for anything to believe, a new set of talking points to disseminate.
Responses in twitter. I saw it there earlier.
WokeHat thought it was profound.
I took a look at the tag end of the last post, if anyone is interested.
TL/DR – weak sauce. Claims Kav’s sexual aggressiveness is corroborated by the dick-waver and the train-puller. Note: implausible or unbelievable testimony doesn’t corroborate anything.
I glanced it over and could only come to the conclusion that the author is a moron who sees only what he wants to see.
Is this big? AOSHQ seems to think it is-got the flaming skull and everything:
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=377362
Apparently Ford’s research included recovering memories and creating artificial situations using self-hypnosis.
“If you’ve never seen the great James-Woods-starring HBO movie Indictment: The McMartin Trial, Wikipedia sums up the real-life trial of a perfectly-innocent family running a dayschool based on “recovered memories” of kids who claimed they’d been sexually abused in Satanic rituals:”
It looks like he’s still banned from posting on Twitter.
He’s sorta banned-all he has to do is remove the offensive tweet to be able to tweet again and he’s refused to do so. Woods is one of the few who made Twitter marginally tolerable.
No, but I followed the Amirault case closely.
I can’t believe David Brudnoy has been dead for 14 years. 🙁
I went to McMartin Preschool. I was interviewed by those nuts.
Yes, it’s eerily similar.
There are still bumper stickers around town that say “I BELIEVE THE CHILDREN”. You shouldn’t, asshole.
Really, the psychologists? Do you remember much of it or were you too young?
All I remember is the toys. My parents were present for the entire ordeal, and after watching for about a half hour, pulled me out. They were so fucking pissed, and couldn’t believe what was going on. Most of the other parents had the same reaction. Since they were claiming hundreds of victims, they were able to proceed to trial with a handful of gullible parents.
Oh, and see below. I also remember the dolls, because they had GIANT dicks. So ridiculous.
What a mess…at least they didn’t manage to plant any false memories in you.
My parents saw me start to get really uncomfortable, because I really wanted to play with the toys, but I wouldn’t lie to them. That’s when they got really mad.
The interview started with me playing with awesome toys. She asked me what toys I liked. I said Transformers. She came back with Optimus Prime and Megatron. Exactly what I had asked for for my birthday.
I got to play for about 5 minutes, and then she took them away. Wouldn’t give them back unless I pointed to the ass or dick on the doll. I wouldn’t do it. So she told me I wasn’t being helpful, and she was disappointed in me. BOOM. Dad slams open the door, and takes me out of there.
Most of my friends have similar, if not identical stories.
The only parents who believed it were the ones who chose not to be present during the interview, and were shown selectively edited video later.
It’s a crime that Kee MacFarlane isn’t in jail right now.
You should write a book.
So you had to show them on the doll where you were touched. huh? Crazy.
Yes. I had to show them what they wanted to see, or they wouldn’t give me my toys back. I was 3 and a half.
#IBelievePlaya
#MeToo
The current level of proggie delusion pretty much walks this one off with nary an acknowledgement.
PSA: There are some America’s Test Kitchen Kindle books on sale today.
The Perfect Cookie
The Perfect Cake
How to Roast Everything
The Complete Make-Ahead Cookbook
Food Processor Perfection
Cook’s Illustrated Baking Book
Any new ones?
Would have helped if my stupid Comcast Internet hadn’t gone out in the middle of posting that comment. Corrected now.
I don’t bake, but I got the food processor and roasting ones.
Yeah, I got the roasting one as well.
Thanks, SP!
I can vouch for the Cook’s Illustrated Baking Book.
I dunno how I feel about kindle cookbooks. Not that this would stop me if I had the cash.
I just use them with my laptop. Works great.
#metoo
I don’t even know where to start with this shit.
For many free speech advocates, the answer is not just “yes,” but “hell, yes.” Nazi ideas are, supposedly, among the most despised ideas in the United States. It’s precisely because they are so loathed that Nazis must be vigorously defended, the argument goes. As the executive director of the ACLU said in a recent interview: “If we grant government the ability to deny people protest permits because of what they say or how they say it or what they stand for, that we’ll find then that speech in other contexts will be regulated and suppressed.”
If Nazis are silenced, other people will be silenced. You need to protect people who hate marginalized people, or marginalized people will be targeted next.
Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic of the University of Alabama School of Law reject this conventional wisdom. The two professors have collaborated on numerous volumes about racism and the law, including “Critical Race Theory: An Introduction” (2012).
In their new book “Must We Defend Nazis?: Why the First Amendment Should Not Protect Hate Speech and White Supremacy,” they argue that in fact regulating hate speech would make the United States a fairer, more equal and less hateful place.
“The best way to preserve lizards is not to preserve hawks,” they insist in the book. “Our answer to the question, does defending Nazis really strengthen the system of free speech is, then, generally, no. Sometimes defending Nazis is simply defending Nazis.”
“Me today, you tomorrow”
More like me today, you today. If they are going to outlaw racist speech these stupid fuckers will be the first ones to have the hammer dropped on them.
But Delgado and Stefancic make a compelling case.
They point out, in the first place, that hate speech causes real harm. Free speech advocates will sometimes insist that words don’t cause damage. They disregard — or even mock — the concerns of students on college campus who protest speeches by controversial figures like Milo Yiannopolous, who has used his speaking engagements to harass trans students, among other marginalized groups. They argue that victims should toughen up and ignore hateful words, or accept them as the price of freedom.
Delgado and Stefanic, though, argue the price for freedom in this case may be higher than we think. For example, a John Hopkins study published in 2013 concluded that being exposed to racism can lead to high blood pressure and stress among African Americans. Similarly, according to research by Claude Steele at Cornell, negative stereotypes affect African-American self-perception, and can lead to lower test scores. More, the rash of recent stories about sexual harassment in the workplace provide stark examples of how hostile words or technically non-violent actions — like men exposing themselves —can create an intolerable environment, forcing women out of industries and leading to long-term stress and trauma.
Free speech advocates also overstate the benefits of free speech, Delgado and Stefanic argue. The ACLU and its adherents claim that marginalized people who ask for restrictions on hate speech don’t understand the importance of free speech to civil rights movements. But that argument is paternalistic, and also incorrect.
It only keeps getting worse.
“They point out, in the first place, that hate speech causes real harm. Free speech advocates will sometimes insist that words don’t cause damage. They disregard — or even mock — the concerns of students on college campus who protest speeches by controversial figures like Milo Yiannopolous, who has used his speaking engagements to harass trans students, among other marginalized groups. They argue that victims should toughen up and ignore hateful words, or accept them as the price of freedom.”
I’m so old, I remember when kids in grammar school would mock people who were so offended by words. We use to sing this archaic song that said “sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me”.
We need to stop raising soy boys and fast
I love how this guy rejects adult concepts like “don’t be such a bitch, it’s just words” with imaginary “science” like psychology.
If it weren’t for free speech, abolition would have failed.
If it weren’t for free speech private sector unions would have failed. In fact, our entire free speech jurisprudence during the 20th Century was based around the anarcho-syndicalist labor union, the Industrial Workers of the World, fighting for the right to give speeches on public sidewalks.
“More, the rash of recent stories about sexual harassment in the workplace provide stark examples of how hostile words or technically non-violent actions — like men exposing themselves —can create an intolerable environment, forcing women out of industries and leading to long-term stress and trauma.”
Well, by their logic, we should ban people from telling those stories. Problem solved.
Who determines exactly who qualifies as “marginalized”? What is the criteria here?
Free speech advocates will sometimes insist that words don’t cause damage.
Straw man alert.
For example, a John Hopkins study published in 2013 concluded that being exposed to racism can lead to high blood pressure and stress among African Americans. Similarly, according to research by Claude Steele at Cornell, negative stereotypes affect African-American self-perception, and can lead to lower test scores.
I’m guessing those studies are two of the multitudes that have never been replicated.
negative stereotypes affect African-American self-perception, and can lead to lower test scores.
If by “negative stereotypes” they meant along the lines of “academic achievement is for white people, you race traitor”, I could see the connection.
What these “progressive” idiots don’t seem to get is that any new or unpopular idea is offensive and crazy.
“They came for the nazis, and I cheered them on . . . ”
Hmm, doesn’t sound quite right.
Hmm, whose rights to speech should we start with first.
They know nothing of centuries of fighting and arguing for this right.
Nazi Ideas:
We demand that the state be charged first with providing the opportunity for a livelihood and way of life for the citizens.
We demand the nationalisation of all (previous) associated industries (trusts).
We demand a division of profits of all heavy industries.
We demand an expansion on a large scale of old age welfare.
We demand the creation of a healthy middle class
We demand a land reform suitable to our needs, provision of a law for the free expropriation of land for the purposes of public utility, abolition of taxes on land and prevention of all speculation in land.
The state is to be responsible for a fundamental reconstruction of our whole national education program, to enable every capable and industrious German to obtain higher education and subsequently introduction into leading positions.
The state is to care for the elevating national health by protecting the mother and child, by outlawing child-labor, by the encouragement of physical fitness, by means of the legal establishment of a gymnastic and sport obligation, by the utmost support of all organizations concerned with the physical instruction of the young.
You don’t defend Nazis but you should defend their human rights. I mean, they are human aren’t they?
1. Nazi’s aren’t human
2. Nazi’s are whoever we say they are.
3. Shut your piehole
Why not just substitute “law professors” for “Nazis” and see if they can spot the problem.
“The best way to preserve lizards is not to preserve hawks,”
Wait, so I’m a victim now? This is quite awkward
Anyone who objects to the lizard people taking over the planet are simply lizardphobes.
Just wait til the hawk people get here, then you’ll be pining for your lizard overlords!
“Nazi ideas are, supposedly, among the most despised ideas in the United States.”
I am two sentences in and hitting the brakes. Specify what those ideas are, ‘cuz I am guessing “You dont own yourself” is at the root of them, just like all socialist thought.
“The best way to preserve lizards is not to preserve hawks,”
So mice/rats run rampant?
Dumb fucking analogy.
The Women’s March Is Back, Baby
yay, anyway, this comment:
Question for the peanut gallery. My parents were very sexist, and it showed in their parenting. My brother was heavily favored and funded while I was not. Much like my father, he holds some pretty sexist views that he takes great pains to hide when his legit woke wife is around. So of course my brother marches in the Women’s March alongside his wife because “this is so important” whereas when I was complaining about my schooling not being paid for, all three of them told me that getting money for school is not an added advantage but just a life difference between two people. He believes Anita Hill but most women do lie.
Take my very liberal, allegedly feminist male coworker. He’s down with equality. He supports his breadwinner wife. He’s not insecure. He voted for HRC. Except when there’s some sexist politician my coworker loves or Aaron Sorkin or Bill Clinton. Then I get some condescending lecture about how politics “really” works and sometimes we have to align ourselves with bad men to get things done. And it’s no big deal if the sexist boss gives male coworker all the perks because “we’re all on the same side” and Juanita was lying anyway.
What do we do with men whose successes and existence wouldn’t be possible without sexism yet want to participate in the Women’s March? They get to benefit from the Donald Trumps and the Gloria Steinems of the world.
Man, talk about your winter vaginas…
“when I was complaining about my schooling not being paid for, all three of them told me that getting money for school is not an added advantage but just a life difference between two people. ”
Let me guess. 1.9 GPA in the humanities and on the 7 year plan. It’s totally sexist for her parents to refuse to pay for that.
If her twitter feed is any indication, she’s lazy as fuck.
Stupid and lazy is no way to go through life.
Except it kind of is.
Do any of you work?
I just did the dishes, how’s that?
It sound like her whole family hates her. I can’t imagine why.
I paid for my own schooling. It was because of systemic sexism. I just know it.
winter vagina with severely chapped lips
So, I have two weeks free to myself, though not really planned. I want to spend it doing something interesting, thought. A trip somewhere, preferably cold. My own thought is Alaska (the most libertarian place on Earth, outside the poles or Siberia, I believe), and I plan to spend the next day or so looking into different trip ideas. I don’t want to do something overly touristry. I’d frankly prefer to be on my own for much of any stay anywhere. If anyone has anything to offer.
Starting when?
Within several days, I’d want to leave. Be back in a week to a week and a half.
If you’re traveling before ski season starts, most ski resorts should be almost empty right now. Summer activity season is over, winter hasn’t really started yet. Should be extremely cheap too.
How about Alyeska?
https://www.alyeskaresort.com
I was thinking along the same lines, but Val Gardena (Dolomites) or Garmisch (Alps).
Along those lines, I’d suggest any alpine village with a cog train.
Every time I see the word Dolomite the only thing I can think of is Rudy Ray Moore and Avenging Disco Godfather.
If you really want to get away: http://www.tuk.ca/
I’m banned from Canada. So, unfortunately, not an option.
Canada is the Twitter of countries.
Tell the story
smuggling temple oranges; fine: 300 CAD
Did you insult our Glorious Leader, The Hair That Walks Like A Man™?
I’ve always wanted to visit the Orkneys
They are gorgeous. And stuffed with amazing neolithic sites to boot.
Oh, and the seafood? And the whisky? Don’t get me started.
Earl Thomas did the links today?
He will be paid $8.5 million to play 3.5 games. Somehow most think this supports the idea that he should have received a new contract.
Pay him off, at the end of he season, drop his ass.
That was funny yesterday.
Things are surreal now in this world.
winter vagina
KY already solved this with warming sensation lubricant.
I’ll do you one better.
Yes, but can you buy it in a 55 gallon drum?
Note to self: save this gem the next time ‘what are we reading’ comes around.
Alt title: “Intolerant Lactose”
Nice.
Breast milk isn’t a big deal, but there’s no reason to write a cookbook about it.
*sets Sloopy Signal full ablaze*
Why do I get the feeling that Trump is playing a game of Rope-A-Dope?
I’m starting to think they’re paying out rope and Dems are tying the noose.
My wifi router at home is dead. Any recommendations?
Get an Asus router and put either DDWRT or Tomato on it
https://www.flashrouters.com/blog/2018/05/14/best-open-source-asus-routers/
Ubiquiti or GTFO.
Separate the gateway and the access points.
Not everybody wants to deal with the complication
Yeah. You’re right.
Then the Asus is the way to go.
My last Asus looked like an octopus fucked a stealth bomber, but it worked really well.
” I dont know either, but boy should you see it pick tomatoes!”
/racist punchline
These days, the config should be minimal. Heck, setting up my old router as an AP was as simple as checking a box in the config and plugging in the cat 5 cable.
Bureaucrats always gotta bureaucrat .
Sorry, I don’t have the score of the Cal game.
…beat me to it
Cal lost 42-24.
To clarify, I have DSL. The phone company provides a modem. I need ethernet and wifi to the house. My old one lasted 13 years.
To clarify, I have DSL
*Beavis and Butthead-style laughter*
^
DSL was a step up from Excede satellite which was a step up from 900 MHz radio on the top of the water tower three miles away.
yea for country living.
DSL
Was ist “urbandictionary”?
It’s like a Nubian, only more so.
Are you Amish?
Iowa. Is that close enough.
How much do you want to spend?
I’m very happy with my TP-Link Archer. It’s the Archer C5. I’ve had for over 3 years and it’s been a solid, reliable performer.
A hundred bucks is a starting point.
I had no further suggestions other than noting the router I’ve been using. I thought the $ question would have teed up some more suggestions. I was wrong.
*shrug*
I thought that was the Amana colonies and not Amish.
What’s a phone company?
You’re never going to get that subscription to 2600 with that attitude, pal.
Phreak
What’s a phone company?
The people who supply you with internet.
DSL? That shiznat is straight outta the stone age.
I think that means Kinnath is living with the “Uncontacted” tribe.
Enough with the DSL shaming. We’re in Iowa, have DSL, and it’s fine — we can both stream stuff simultaneously with no problem.
Iowa here too.
Cable was giving me periodic bouts of packet loss for a month or so, along with 3 or 4 outages of 2-5 hours, so I switched to DSL from Cable about 3 weeks ago.
Its been rock solid, and even with only 20Mbps, two HD streams is easily doable.
Honestly I wish I hadn’t waited so long.
It would be fun to build a solution that could be deployed over and over around the country, little internet co-ops with stand-alone infrastructure.
My guess is the tech and band-width norms change so much you can never figure out how to recover your investment while offering an affordable service.
It would be fun to build a solution that could be deployed over and over around the country, little internet co-ops with stand-alone infrastructure.
Back to the future? Because that’s how a lot of people got internet access for the first time. I recall when these mom n pop ISPs were being bought up. Some people made nice coin.
(Raises hand)
Ran a dial-up service from around ’96 to ’06. Took awhile but we finally made more than we put into it.
… Hobbit
The issue is the core routing infrastructure. The money to be made is in commercial implementation, which doesn’t mesh will with a decentralized mom N pop model.
As a rough analogy, people’s houses work fine on residential wells, but a waterpark would drain a residential well dry.
ugh, Cubs lost.
Inconceivable!
Love me some Motown. And Vagina, winter or otherwise.
here’s a little throw-back.
in 1986, I had the privilege of shaking Melvin Franklin’s hand.
I started life as an embryo sometime in January 1986. But I wasn’t a human being till later that year.
Oh. My. God. This is too good.
Warning: Fox News
Now, have a look at her twitter feed. Profile pic:
She’s a true team player! #RESIST
It gets better:
“Shame @CLFSuperPAC who took my story & weaponized it WITHOUT my permission and victimized me all over again. Take down your vile ads immediately.”
How are you victimized all over again if you were never victimized in the first place?
Because shut up, shitlord!
Recanting a lie and righteous indignation within five minutes’ time. Bravo.
Maybe she got an email from the DNC that just had “Seth Rich” in the subject line.
My guess is she just found out he’s a Democrat.
FTA, she knew he was a Democrat all along (the alleged assault happened at a party convention she, a Democrat activist, attended), but what has changed is she found out he was at risk of losing to a Republican. Sometimes one must take one for the team.
He paid her off, a la Trump.
Both of these people make me want to puke.
Wait, isn’t that gaslighting or some shit?
Interesting tidbit:
So, a person who accused a Democrat of sexual harassment has been threatened? By who? Presumably not Republicans.
I wonder what inducements were offered to clear up this misunderstanding.
Republicans’ misogyny is unrelenting that they’ll cross party lines to attack alleged victims of Democrats.
Even their bipartisanship is violent.
Can’t even #believeherself
Wow.
Whoops….that belongs down here. Take #2
Bureaucrats always gotta bureaucrat .
A Good German.
Emmanuel Macron is hugging young bare-chested guys in Saint-Martin.
Ouh la la
My russian is long out of practice, but I do think I saw #FullHomo in there somewhere.
I was gonna be like, “Well, it’s the Caribbean, there’s the French angle, the 80s kinda never died down there…” but, yeah, no, some of those dudes are pretty damn fabulous.
Fabulously sweaty.
I love how totally serious and confused Macron and the one guy look in the first picture. Like they’re both really serious about learning how to samba or something.
Ha now that I look closer, that’s quite a gaze on the dude on the left. He looks like he’s got more on his mind than “samba”.
Where’s Ted to help with the back story. I get something like “scandalous photos of Macron” out of the headline but that’s about it.
Here’s the background in English. I went with the Russian link because it had more sweaty bare-chested guys.
You did well, son.
Also… these are just some randos he happened to visit?
*adds Saint-Martin to vacation list*
COL@LAD
very very rare half inning by RHP 48Marquez
/IBB to 14Hernandez
/gives up two runs (2run homer 35Belinger)
/records four strikeouts
“current no-contact policy for isolated indigenous groups.”
What the hell kind of policy is That? They’re not zoo animals.
https://www.foxnews.com/science/inside-the-amazons-worlds-most-endangered-tribe-who-bathes-with-turtles-and-and-eats-armadillos
But, but, you’d spoil their stone age existance with your filthy technology!
Also, since one of those guys is wearing denim shorts, I don’t think they’re “Uncontacted”
Or it could mean that denim shorts truly are a “timeless classic” since they have obviously been around since forever.
(Athens) cutoffs are back….oh my
They’re the NEVERNUDE Tribe.
Levi Strauss, the first cultural appropriator.
Please let the record show that today I learned armadillos live in the Amazon.
#TheMoreYouKnow
You can find anything on amazon. Not all of it is eligable for prime delivery, though.
They live in Florida too. They’re aka alligator snacks.
I wonder whether they’d consider it ethical to force this tribe to remain in indigenous squalor against their wishes. If they’re threatened by disease or starvation, would they hold it ethical to permit their extinction?
The sad part is, they’d say it’s perfectly ethical because it keeps them pristine and untained by modernity.
But these are the same people wishing for billions of people to hurry up and die already for the sake of the planet.
It’s like you don’t even ST-TNG.
Prime Directive Much?
I made a Wesley Crush joke last thread! But tbh I haven’t actually watched most of TNG.
So long as you keep it that way, you may retain fond memories of the series which you’d never have if you watched it.
Especially any episode that had Wesley Crusher in it.
I wouldn’t get too worked up about that. At some point someone is going to want the land they are on for timber, mining, ranching or oil and then no one will pay any attention to that.
“What the hell kind of policy is That? They’re not zoo animals.”
But to the woke researchers and assorted nut cases, zoo animals is exactly what they are.
I recall a documentary series from a few years ago, made in the Peru/Brazil border region of the Amazon, an area where there are still a few tribes living in basic isolation from the rest of civilization.
Some members of one of the tribes were coming out of the forests and stealing from a local Brazilian village. People were scared and basically the government was not sure what to do about it. They sent in some people to try to deal with it, among them a couple anthropologists and experts on the native languages of the region. Basically, it turned out that the remote tribe were curious and wanted some of that stuff you guys got over there that we ain’t got. Some of them refused to go back to the forests and were granted the right to stay.
Once the language barriers were mostly down, they told a story. And it was not one of living in paradise. Their life, as you can imagine, basically sucked. They were constantly living in fear, they never got much sleep because they were bitten by insects and living in fear of being killed by wild beasts or other primitive tribes. There was nothing back in the forest that they wanted to return to. Now they had clothes, a constant supply of good food, and a life mostly free from constant fear. Oh yeah, and none of them died, they were given medicine to protect them from modern day diseases.
This bullshit is one of the biggest frauds ever created by the eco-Nazis.
I have a buddy from high school who’s been a missionary with SoBaps for almost 15 years now. He’s been living/working down in that region with his family working with local folks to try and get in contact with one of these tribes. The problem is that they’re so far out in the middle of nowhere, it makes Heart of Darkness look like a walk in the park. His place is a couple days downriver from the final outpost (which is all “locals”) – but in the 21st century, communication is getting better. The problem is, there doesn’t seem to be any real way to communicate (compared to the 50s/60s when the Aucas killed those folks in Ecuador – not much has changed). When the folks are at the outpost (mostly solar powered), they hear “animal” noises all night and find footprints the next morning. Then when they head down river for supplies and come back, all their animals are killed and half their equipment is trashed – and now apparently the tribe expects “retaliation” because of what they did…for no apparent reason.
Never mind that it’s a migratory tribe and they only get signs of them every few years – really, really crazy stuff.
Any bets on how long until this tireless media ploy is called total BS ?
And then nothing is done.
there should be a law against this. It goes against my libertarian instincts to say that, but this shit is getting out of hand.
You’re too cynical Tres. Got a link to her GoFundMe page?
“Boone, who is also a teacher and president of the Hardin County Education Association”
QED
I would like to give her the tip – just sayin’ (after a few beers)
I like her mom’s kitchen. That shit ill af.
Yeah, I would.
What do you call a receipt with a racist slur in lieu of a tip?
A conversation starter.
I mean, I know this sounds cynical, but actual racists wouldn’t say, “black people” in order to offer a racist insult, they’d use a well-known derogatory slur that is used in regard to black people instead. Seriously. If you’re going to go so far as to leave a note, you’re going to say “nigger”. And not “nigga” either. You’ll spell that shit all the way out.
Also, yeah, she is kinda cute. I would, for sure.
actual racists wouldn’t say, “black people”
Probably not.
would, for sure.
Something something sticking it something something crazy.
I mean, in the fantasy world in which I’m running around romancing strange women I happen across via the Internet, the grocery store, what-have-you, they’re also not at all crazy and/or have gotten better.
Anybody check the handwriting on the napkin compared to the waitress’s? /cynic
Believe in something, even if it’s racist?
Looks like a chicks handwriting. . .
4 year old is sick, so working from home today.
I throw on a Netflix “original” cartoon for him. Story Bots.
First episode, and Snoop Dogg is in it. WTF?
Yeah, dude is everywhere.
Story-dizzle Bot-Vizzle, in DoggVision
I really should offer my services as an editor to the Dayton Daily News.
I dont think Id let that headline go.
“Lucas Bryant, a player the Covington Pee Wee team, has a feeding tube and is unable to tackle or be tackled”
Did anyone tell the teammate who tackled him in the end zone?
“Oops. My bad.”
Kinda like this girl, amirite ?
No. That is a disqualifying health condition.
Nah, as long as everyone is in on it, I’m good.
When I was in school, we had a kid who was probably disabled in some way – very awkward, thick glasses, just really odd. He was on our basketball team, and I’m pretty sure we treated him like shit, because teenage boys. During one of our intramural basketball games, the coaches got together and said “we’re gonna let this poor kid score a basket”. Everybody got on board – we passed to him, he kinda dribbled it down the court, the other team kinda made a show of guarding him and trying for rebounds when he missed, we rebounded and passed it back to him. He scored, finally, and just lit up, and you know what? So did everybody else. I wonder where he wound up, anyway.
Odd how I hadn’t thought about that in years. It was a Good Thing we did. One of the few, really.
That kid grew up to be Bill Gates.
Here’s another interesting story (WSJ so I’m just copy/pasting) – https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-and-eubut-not-germany-support-land-swap-in-balkans-1538226000
TL:DR – Merkel against peaceful resolution because FYTW.
Kosovo might slide into criminality? Hell, they are already there. When I lived in Europe the Kosovars were the biggest drug traffickers in Europe. That’s how they funded the Kosovo Liberation Army, but that was hushed up because the US sided with them. That said, if they want to swap land, they should be free to do so.
Why on Earth, other than because she is an evil commie, would Merkel oppose that?
I’ll play devil’s advocate. Once you start redrawing borders in that region, it is difficult to stop. Serbia could use the precedent to turn to Bosnia and say, wanna swap? And if Bosnia doesn’t want to play along, fighting could break out.
There’s also the fact that Germany knows a tiny bit about being on the wrong end of border “adjustments”….
Georgetown was good enough for Bill Clinton
““The views of faculty members expressed in their private capacities are their own and not the views of the University,” the university said.”
Im sure that would hold true if she went on a Coulter-esque tirade calling Ford a dopey cunt. They’d totally have her back.
I took two courses at a LaSallian school once (everyone with a map can probably guess which one), and my experience was quite unpleasant. The professors were extremely competent, seasoned professionals, who had zero federal censorship
and, it turns out, they were assholes. I really don’t care for my engineering courses to be peppered with misogynistic soliloquies. It was very paternalistic and unpleasant. This was over twenty years ago, before everyone bared their souls on twitter and facebook, so I was shocked that grown professionals could be so mean and proudly harbor such fierce and childish notions.
Can you imagine saving your whole life to attend that school and being greeted with such a rude atmosphere? It was nothing to me: I booked my credits and transferred to another grad school nearby.
My son recently matriculated at a Marianist institution, but I haven’t heard any complaints.
I don’t care what they do at Georgetown, but it’s hard to imagine that an egalitarian like myself would ever be happy and learn well in a contentious classroom atmosphere. I doubt someone can be a dick all day except that they behave well the two hours I’m in class with them.
“Look at thus chorus of entitled white men justifying a serial rapist’s arrogated entitlement. All of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps. Bonus: we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine? Yes.”
https://twitter.com/CChristineFair/status/1046126201771872256
“Scholar of South Asian pol-mil affairs, inter-sectional feminist, pitbull apostle, scotch devotee, nontheist, resister. Views R mine. No rubes. RT≠endorsement.”
Of course, the shitstain has a blue checkmark, and Twitter will do nothing.
I wish someone could change to avatar to the face of Bill Clinton, with Linda Tripp’s ass on his back.
That’s the lunatic from Georgetown. I cannot believe she’s still employed there
The mind boggling part of her political stance is that she’s pro-droning and has claimed that no bystanders were ever killed by one of Barry’s drones
Something like 17,000 middle-easterners would like to have a word…if they werent dead
Those brown fuckers were probably Trump supporters anyway
/Fair
“The views of faculty members expressed in their private capacities are their own and not the views of the University,” the university said. “Our policy does not prohibit speech based on the person presenting ideas or the content of those ideas, even when those ideas may be difficult, controversial or objectionable. While faculty members may exercise freedom of speech, we expect that their classrooms and interaction with students be free of bias and geared toward thoughtful, respectful dialogue.”
Wonder how far that would get you if you expressed something against the narrative in as stark terms?
That was supposed to be a reply to Don above.
More #NotMeToo.
Also, “In an interview, Stewart said her organization is spending less than $100,000 on the commercial.”
OK…so where is the rest of the money coming from ?
“A sex offender who claims to be transgender has been jailed for 11 years after pretending to be a boy to try and groom a girl.
Jacinta Brooks, 41, asked a 12-year-old girl to send indecent pictures of herself – the third time she is known to have targeted children.
Brooks, who identifies as a woman and was previously known as Duncan Smart, has previously faced the courts for having sex with someone who is underage and child abuse.”
https://metro.co.uk/2018/10/01/trans-woman-41-pretended-to-be-a-boy-to-groom-a-girl-7994533/
OFFS
Boy pretending to be girl pretends to be boy to molest girl.
also, third time? Maybe i’m confused about the timeline of it being “known”, like, all 3 times became knowledge simultaneously? it’d have to be, right? Can’t bring myself to click, sorry.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
“Contaminated bootleg alcohol kills at least 42 in Iran
At least 42 people have died after drinking contaminated bootleg alcohol in Iran, a government spokesman said.
Health ministry spokesman Iraj Harirchi said 16 people had gone blind and 170 had undergone dialysis after trying the tainted drink.
In the past three weeks, at least 460 people across five provinces have been hospitalised, with the youngest victim a 19-year-old woman.
Alcohol is illegal in Iran but bootleg booze is widespread.
However, ethanol is sometimes reportedly replaced with toxic methanol in the contaminated drink.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-45709203
I think the US gov’t scored a WAY higher body count during alcohol prohibition, with denaturing alcohol.
They need to up their game.
https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1046873618247049217
Why the long face?
Sarah Jessica Parker is out in public again?
Fine. I may as well .
likely NSFW language
That shit makes me kind of sad. You can tell the horse is freaking out.
Speaking of death marches, the Bataan Memorial Death March registration opened today. Judging from the photo, they even allow raggedy assed old men to compete in Civilian Individual Heavy Division.
Joking aside, I feel horrible that I haven’t written a BMDM post yet. It literally changed my life. Consequentially, describing it in words is intimidating. Someday I’ll sober up and write.
You know who else had his life changed by marches ?
Louisa May Alcott?
Since its dead now, I was actually hoping for “John Phillips Sousa”.
Well done though.
I’ve spent time in Bataan and Coreggidor growing up – really need to make time for something like this in the future. (I’d get a heckuvalot more outta this than any normal “race” – although I don’t think I’d be going for speed. ) Like the military option, but since I’ve been in the Navy – I’ve yet to break in a better pair of boots for something like this. Thanks for bringing this up.
IANAL. But this guy is. Lawsuit from Diversity & Comics against Mark Waid for interfering with his publishing contract with Antarctic Press this year. We knew it was coming, but it’s nice to see some progress.
He’s gonna get crushed. No fucking way can he beat Marvel’s lawyers on this….
…is what I’d say if this wasn’t One True Autistic God of Turning Things around. He fucking somehow had a late night “comedy” hit piece on him turn to his advantage. It’s gonna end up fully retarded and he’s gonna win somehow.
It’s a pretty specific charge with documented statements – and fairly limited/reasonable damages. I think he’s got a pretty good shot – esp when you’re talking Texas vs California.
I listened to that all the way through (on my crappy DSL line).
Awesome stuff.
“The largest newspaper in Puerto Rico has apologized for running an opinion column that said Jewish people control the U.S. Congress and want to punish the storm-ravaged island for its debt because they care so much about money.
In the Spanish op-ed last week from El Nuevo Día, whose title translates to “What Does ‘the Jew’ Want With the Colony?,” columnist Wilda Rodriguez justified her assertion that Jews run the government by pointing to an alleged Israeli article published in Hebrew 20 years ago that recognized Jewish power in Washington. “For Israelis,” she wrote, “recognizing Jewish power over the United States is no offense. It is the victory of their diaspora.”
https://www.newsweek.com/puerto-rico-jews-op-ed-781912
You know who else wanted to punish a storm ravaged island?…
Prospero?
Mr. Roarke and Tattoo ?
STEVE SMITH?
Godzilla?
Godzilla.
I was expecting BÖC
I know.
If the Jews had sense, they wouldn’t want such a dysfunctional hellhole.
“What Does ‘the Jew’ Want With the Colony?,”
Man, I’m really glad Shatner toned the question down for Start Trek V.
Huh. In my experience, “Winter Vagina” means I get laid more.
OK, so given the Neil MacDonald Rule of He’s Always 100% Wrong, Trudeau apparently just schooled the Americans.
With its new trade deal, Canada surrenders sovereignty to a bully: Neil Macdonald
“This is all about the Americans laying down a marker,” says a Canadian lawyer who’s been inside the NAFTA renegotiation. “They are effectively saying ‘We are going to control North America.’
Has that ever really been a question ?
Not since the War of 1812. Since then we’ve tolerated them because we’re nice.
I dont have the statistics on hand, but if pressed Id happily make the argument “OK….so how many Canadians have moved HERE and how many Americans have moved…oh, I dunno…..THERE?”
Nope. We just have to remind them from time to time.
We?
During the Civil War the British couldn’t too openly support the Confederacy. If they had tipped the scales and the South won, Lincoln could have just ordered Grant and Sherman to take half a million men and secure Canada. Wouldn’t have been a thing the British could have done about it.
Other than a loss of pride, would that really have hurt the british all that much?
“Going to”? Not to in any way throw shade on our North American neighbors, but we control the most useful part of the continent in terms of international trade, natural resources, strategic location, etc. And it seems to me that Mexico hasn’t been able to get and keep its shit together long enough to control Mexico, never mind the rest of the continent, and Canada seems, like Europe and the UK, content to let the US take the lead in the relationship in terms of geopolitics so that they can get on with providing free Internet access and a four-day work week to their citizens.
Id gladly trade you Florida and 3 states on the west coast for your Yukon and NWT.
For exactly the reasons you cite.
Is the moral panic over yet? No? *Ducks behind innocent, but scuzzy swamp creature*
Nice headline..
I hate that site. Every time. https://japantoday.com/category/rugby-world-cup-2019/rugby-all-blacks-looking-to-'right-a-wrong'-against-south-africa