Moving slowly this morning after breaking my hip last night, stumbling around in an alcoholic daze. This will clearly disqualify me from being on the Supreme Court. However, my fingertips still work, so here’s links and snark for breakfast. Since I’m using the hair of the dog recovery method (because we have prodigious amounts of hair from the Wonder Dog all over the house), this post may get progressively more incoherent.
The best birthdays today are Ernest Walton, the physicist who not only split the nucleus, but was the co-inventor of the Cockroft-Walton voltage multiplier (a circuit I have used in many of my electronics projects), and Bruno Sammartino, the greatest wrestler ever. Don’t argue with me, you’re wrong.
The transformation of Whole Foods from progressive touchstone to Evil Empire has been a continuous source of amusement. Jeff Bezos is apparently less amused.
“DxE members have repeatedly entered our stores and property to conduct demonstrations that disrupt customers and team members by blocking access to our aisles, departments and cash registers, interfering with our business and putting the safety of both customers and team members at risk,” a Whole Foods representative said in a statement.
“We have been kicked out, we have had the police called on us, we have been ignored, and now there is [the Whole Foods] lawsuit,” said King, who was among those arrested on Saturday. “But Whole Foods just continues to escalate this rather than give us the answers to really simple questions.”
I always wonder where people who spend their time with this shit in ultra-expensive elite areas (in this case, Berkeley, where $3000 a month will get you a studio apartment in a crumbling building) get the money to support themselves. And since this protest is all about chicken rights, I am obligated to link this.
“Don’t let anyone fool you: If he decides to run, you will see a national infrastructure come together,” said the hotel magnate George Tsunis, an Obama megadonor. “In the past when he’s run, there has been a formidable primary opponent … If he chooses to run in 2020, he would be the Obama-Clinton-like candidate. I think people would feel his time is now, and I think a lot of the country would feel that we need a Joe Biden as president.”
Hat and Hair would be replaced by Tooth Caps and Hair Plugs.
In Chicago, protesters were all set for a “Not Guilty” verdict in the Jason Van Dyke trial. Imagine their disappointment when the murdering cop was found guilty, guilty, guilty. Well, no use letting that spoil the party, eh?
Demonstrators began peacefully protesting in downtown Chicago’s Loop area shortly after the verdict, chanting “Justice for Laquan, justice for all” and “The whole damn system is guilty as hell.” The crowds marched in the streets holding signs in support of Black Lives Matter and Laquan McDonald.
Scroll down for the photo of the protesters shutting down the street. Notice something interesting? Yeah, I did too.
And the next story also tickled me. Much as I virulently hate this guy’s politics, there’s no denying that Banksy is the real thing, a truly great artist. And here’s another example of why.
The ‘Girl with Balloon’ painting slid out of its frame, simultaneously shredding the canvas just as the final hammer signaled an end to the evening, according to international auction house Sotheby’s. It had sold for $1.4 million, matching a record for the artist first set in 2008.
The artist posted an image of the scene from the auction house on his Instagram account with the caption “Going, going, gone…”
Fuck, that’s wonderful.
Who was the presidential candidate who said, “Constitutional rights are subject to reasonable regulation” during the 2016 debates? Oh yeah, the Team Blue lady. Texas seems to agree and has invoked the FYTW exception to the First Amendment.
A campaign sign in Central Texas this week drew the scorn of an elected state official — and then it was confiscated by police. “I’m glad that I called out this offensive campaign sign and am pleased that hundreds of others did so as well,” [Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller] said. “It’s vulgar and just plain wrong and it had no place in someone’s yard visible from the street.”
A nice reminder that Team Red is just as happy to fuck with citizens’ rights as Team Blue.
In more sign news, there is a threat to the lives and safety of Minnesoda minorities. A teenager has vandalized an Arby’s sign!
The sign, posted overnight at the restaurant on Brooklyn Boulevard, featured the N-word and a derogatory term for a prostitute. Officers saw the sign at about 7 a.m. and took it down. The department says the sign is low enough to the ground that just about anyone can reach it.
Nazis preparing to storm the town, no doubt. It always starts with Arby’s.
Inevitably, Old Guy Music. And what better than having a Jew play Irish music? If you had been out with SP and me last night, you would have ended up at a cocktail emporium where this amazingly versatile (((guy))) held forth on pennywhistle, flute, guitar, mandolin, and violin, all with equal (and impressive) facility and skill. Irish music interspersed with Jethro Tull covers. I love America.
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The transformation of Whole Foods from progressive touchstone to Evil Empire has been a continuous source of amusement. Jeff Bezos is apparently less amused.
I thought whole foods was libertarian before he amazon takeover
Whole foods sucks.
Trader Joes > The Fresh Market > other grocery stores.
I’m a recent Trader Joe’s convert – surprised to find they are owned by Aldis. Damn good cheap beer there – and the two (well three) buck chuck.
I had been hearing about two buck chuck for decades, thanks to Consumer Reports. So when we finally got a Trader Joe’s, I bought a couple of bottles. I was really excited to have my bias that there’s not much difference in wines confirmed.
Now, I’m no connoisseur. In fact, I’m not really a wine guy at all. So take this with a grain of salt.
The wine I bought under the two buck chuck label was terrible. I mean, really, really terrible. As in, we didn’t’ bother finishing it. Two different varieties, both absolutely undrinkable.
And my normal choice in a wine is “whatever they have in the sale bin just inside the door at the grocery store”.
So, take that for what it is worth. I’ll drink the $5 sale wine and not notice the difference. But I didn’t drink the Trader Joe’s.
I like ’em quite a bit – not the best wine in the world but no big sulfurous aftertaste that I get with some cheap wine. I would suggest trying them again or maybe you’re just a weirdo 😉
Dunno, their Merlot and I think Sauvignon Blanc were OK when I had them recently. Usually buy really good wine for a bit over $10 at Costco, not that I drink much alcohol.
PA TJ ‘s don’t have wine or beer.
?
Yeah, some people are privileged to be in a state where they can get wine and liquor at the grocery store.
They aren’t owned by Aldi, exactly. Way back when, in Germany, there was one grocery chain called Aldi. Two brothers owned it. When their business ideas diverged, they split the company between them into Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd. In the US, Aldi Nord is Trader Joe’s and Aldi Süd is Aldi.
Wegmans is the only good grocery store.
Mariano’s and Woodman’s would like to have a word with you.
All I can say is every supermarket in Wegmans’ home region was better when I was a kid than every supermarket where I live now.
the best is the one that has most romanian wines
I thought whole foods was libertarian before he amazon takeover
It was considered the height of progressive foods — high prices, lots of virtue signaling — until the founder said some libertarian-ish things, causing people like my fiancee to hate it good and hard.
You can’t be 95% prog. You’re either all in with all talking points, or you’re the subject of the daily Two Minute Hate.
Since Amazon bought it, the one next to me no longer has high prices and they have an excellent caliber of meats.
Oh, please please please please please!!!!! This will guarantee that SugarFree never runs out of material – wasn’t he e bit handsy with the females for the meetoo era?
I’d love to see Joe kick off the DNC convention with a couple of shot gun blasts to get everyone’s attention.
Demonstrators began peacefully protesting in downtown Chicago’s Loop area shortly after the verdict, chanting “Justice for Laquan, justice for all” and “The whole damn system is guilty as hell.” – I meam they are not wrong just their solutions would make things worse
Where is everybody? It is a beautiful saturday afternoon. The sun is shining the temperature is a pleasant 21…
Rainy and 62F. I have to go to a Crew rowing event today, so a little whiskey is coming with us – to Irish up the coffee.
It is raining like hell here. Again.
Voltage doublers were really popular in the late 50s/early 60s – off the top of my head seen ’em in H-K, McIntosh, and Acro amps.
I use ’em for 12V filament tubes.
Wohoo someone new it was getin weird
Whoo ! Romanian Vampire Party!
speaking of vampires:
VLAD THE IMPALER Russia’s first sex robot brothel opens in Moscow offering dolls with heated privates who’ll ‘talk dirty’ and ‘moan with pleasure’
But will they “leak” on you?
One would think the vampire jokes got old after the first coupke of years
I’ll put a stake in it.
For the most part they suck.
Things I learned today while searching for bad puns:
A nice reminder that Team Red is just as happy to fuck with citizens’ rights as Team Blue. – does anyone reallt meed a reminder?
It is easy to forget when team left are busy trying to tightly control every aspect of your life, in economics, child rearing, culture and language.
Every aspect? Nonsense they are all for freedom to obey the rules
You mean for the plebes to obey the rules… They are above that shit as Hillary & Obama getting away with serious law breaking proves.
I don’t know if this one from the UK was posted here yet.
Heh, cUKs.
I don’t bother getting upset about stupid stuff happening in Europe anymore, they deserve it.
Wow. So, the actual story is bad, but get a load of some of the replies. Apparently Trump has lost the north Florida furry contingent. Also, that’s a thing.
There’s also a Panhandle Florida furry thing, out by CrestTucky at least.
I’m surprised, but I guess I shouldn’t be, given that it’s Florida, home of the unexpected. But not unexpected like waking up to breakfast in bed unexpected. More like waking up to find a homeless guy naked on your front lawn unexpected.
As long as we are talking about things that both Teams agree on, let’s talk about when it became OK to lock up protesters at political rallies.
That mugshot is making it difficult for me to side against Trump’s goon squad.
Completely agree, but if I wanted to value principals over principles (or the other way, fuck it, I graduated from Memphis State), I would still be back at TOS.
Yeah, principles are hard.
/Barbie me
That bit about reasonable regulation annoys the crap out of me. When a law has absolute language…. “Shall make no law”…. You can’t just decide to ignore it because it is inconvenient.
Yet that is what we do. And that is how you stare-decisis your butt into wichard and raich and finally a supreme Court nominee who opines that the federal government has the power to order you to buy broccoli…. And still gets confirmed!!!!
Some say she was told to remove the sign or it would be confiscated. City officials said police visited Stanford’s home and she asked them to take the sign.
Yeah, I’m gonna need to see the body cam footage of that.
For those who did not bother clicking through to see the link, the sign is a hand-painted elephant sticking Its trunk under a girl’s dress. The caption is “your vote matters.”
Big brother needs a bitch slap
I second that notion. There’s a Big Bro that needs a slappin’.
I thought it was kind of clever.
If Sid Miller was involved, it probably happened. He’s a grade A asshole.
Holy shi-ite, I’m glad I don’t put out any yard signs.
I can only imagine how distraught my wife would be at having to have a closed casket funeral because of all the bullet holes the cops put in me after I helpfully suggested where they could stuff their demand to take down a sign in my yard.
What kind of dunce thought buying a Banksy piece was a good idea?
Meh, he’ll be all right “You could argue,” he said, “that the work is now more valuable.”
Art ain’t about the physical thing or skill or talent anymore, since that asshole Duchamp art has been about “wouldn’t it be cool if…”
Oh yeah he will be, he was willing to dump $1.4 million for that shitpost.
I would argue that the contract had not yet been consummated.
Yeah, deliberately building a shredder into a piece of … art? … being auctioned seems like a breach of contract.
Banksy did the buyer a favor, the guy thought he had simply bought a painting of Banksy’s most famous graffiti, what he got was ‘The Banksy that got shredded at auction’, he could turn around tomorrow and sell the tattered remains and the frame for far more than the 1.4 mil. The physical painting isn’t what holds value these days it’s the “Idea”
Irony, it’s all about the irony.
It’s getting boring.
Getting?
Vox: A leading Holocaust historian just seriously compared the US to Nazi Germany
“If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell.”
We know what comes out of a colon.
Can you suspend a history licence or something?
Yes… People I disagree with having a voice is an existential threat to democracy….
Words and definitions are hard…
As I’ve said before, wake me up when Trump has set The Congress on fire and blames it all on the Mexicans, Chinese, whoever.
From what I can tell, the Reichstag actually was burned by a Communist. Just like 9/11 actually was Muslim terrorists, but boy oh boy Congress already had a long long list of security measures tucked in a drawer ready to label the USA PATRIOT Act.
Honestly, the biggest lesson I take from the rise of the Nazis is that if liberal democracy isn’t willing to suppress violent thugs in the streets, the people will elect a government that will, even if they are just the flip side of the same tyranny. It’s the same reason the commies won in Russia. The Bolsheviks didn’t overthrow the tsar, they overthrow Kerensky’s government of moderate democratic lawyers and activists, that wasn’t willing to kill the ragtag bunch of commies, even though they had the numbers.
You can’t run a stable and free nation if you’re unwilling to kill tyrants.
You mean, sic semper tyrannis isn’t just a catchy marketing slogan?
The Reichstag fire wasn’t set by Hitler or the Nazis but they, too, were never ones to let a crisis go to waste.
I should really refresh more than once an hour.
Should we call it Browning the thread now?
Its a case of Super TDS.
“privatized state propaganda office.”
You mean MSNBC et. al., right?
Wow UNC really went on a moron hiring spree since I went there
It’s pervasive and not limited to UNC. Over the past 30 years self selection by liberals have left most of these schools in the charge of some of the most stupid and ideologically left leaning retards you could imagine.
I notice these kind of articles a lot on lefty sites – a sort of appeal to authority / top man thing. “See, we found someone who is an EXPERT. An EXPERT! who believes crazy things so it must be true.”
I don’t read a lot of righty sites these days – a little Powerline – so maybe I’m missing the same sort of articles on the other side of the political spectrum.
Generally, the righty sites don’t need to speculate on the similarities. The leftists seem to be reciting the communist party platform word for word lately.
Yeah, the left is doing stuff in real life that the conservative conspiracy nuts would be embarrassed to make up for fear of coming off as unbelievable.
When you believe in a system where so called experts control everything, you tend to go for this sort of stupid shit. One would hope these idiots would instead wake up to the fact what they believe in is stupid.
Too bad about Browning. Ordinary Men is a great book.
Yeah, historians seem determined to confirm the worst fears that conservatives have.
His hot take here makes me wonder if the Nazis were really all that bad.
When Kavanaugh is confirmed, impeachment could follow. Here’s how.
Please keep talking this up in the media. Please please please
It’s like the evil party decided it would out-stupid the stupid party.
Several Democrats have already announced that they intend to use the subpoena power of the house to fully investigate all of the charges against Kavanaugh.
I think we can safely substitute the words “trump up” for “investigate.”
I just watches some skank that belongs to the group that started off telling everyone back when this began that no matter whom was nominated, they would oppose the nominee, in a fit of fury and fire, complain that the republicans didn’t fall for the shitshow circus the democrats had peddled, and all but admitted that the only acceptable outcome was a delay which coincidentally is a bar only reached when the republicans no longer have the votes to nominate anyone anyway because of vaginas!
She went on and on about how Ford was raped a second time, this time by republicans in congress, and that these old white men all hate women or some such nonsense. She demanded justice. More time to investigate. An investigation of every guy out there, cause they are all rapist or something. She wanted justice for Ford. Then, when one of the reporters pointed out to her that congress should investigate whom had leaked the paperwork on Ford and left her open to this whole circus, this idiot actually just stopped cold in her tracks, and finally shut her trap. It was obvious that she finally realized she had been backed into a corner there because it would only show that the democrats didn’t give a fuck about Ford and were just using her, she gave an answer that amounted to “I want none of that, I just don’t want anyone that isn’t a rabid marxist on the court”.
Man, I am going to enjoy their butt hurt.
Scroll down for the photo of the protesters shutting down the street. Notice something interesting? Yeah, I did too.
They are almost all white hipsters?
That’s what I got too, which seems pretty standard for protests. Am I missing something?
White hipsters are protesting the conviction of a white cop who killed a black man?
It just goes to show, you can’t disappoint a mob who is ready to protest. They’ll just go ahead and be a nuisance.
Got it in one. And have an affluent air about them.
yeah, nailed it. I represented a protester recently- one of a bunch who shut down a main thoroughfare in the area for immigrant lives matter / marching to the local ICE headquarters, etc. Their bail was all paid by the same (I assume affluent white) lady.
City attorney treated all the (eight I think) cases the same, and gave everyone a reduced charge to “failure to obey” as reduced from “resisting /obstructing.” One of the protestors is insisting on a trial, as she wants to run for city commission or something, and hopes the trial will help the campaign. /facepalm.
Can’t be posted enough:
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/2018/03/16/the_ignoble_lie_how_the_new_aristocracy_masks_its_privilege_37883.html
I think a lot of the country would feel that we need a Joe Biden as president.
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
-Mencken
I think the US is past that point
The older I get and the more people I talk to, the more I come to feel that this whole popular representation thing is a big, big mistake. Who thought it was a good idea to put people who need a written warning to know that hot coffee is hot in charge of national policy?
And yet, what’s the alternative? Individuals tend to know their own interests better than anyone else.
Letters to the Local Rag: Speaking in Code Edition
+1 Not Gay Play with Trains Nude ad
Antique dildos?
Did somebody ride her bicycle past his window last night?
Skating on thin ice there
Say what you want, those key masters are always getting some.
What kind of superpowers do I get from drinking Jew Ear Juice? The ability to tolerate motherly nagging?
I don’t get how it’s Jew Ear Juice. It means Black Tree Ear Path.
Fetlocks?
Hear loss change falling from someone’s pocket two blocks away?
Montserrat Caballé, 1933-2018
BBC Obit
Here’s hoping Freddie and her are playing that together again up there.
So awesome and so very very gay
At issue in the small community of Hamilton was a homemade yard sign featuring an elephant decorated in red, white and blue with its trunk up the skirt of a female saying the word “Help.”
I laughed.
#MeToo
Letters to the Local Rag: This Is Getting Silly
Flamethrower.
Oxyclean
Vegetable oil
Put your head in the oven for 45 minutes at 375.
Methyl Ethyl Ketone. Ideally in a closed space.
A fifty gallon barrel of Astroglide.
Only keep bottles you appreciate the label on.
Mt. Olive Paint Brushes
As we speak Romania is fighting they gay mennace
Just surrender to the fabulous.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yyiSDKmesXQ
Back when comedy had an edge to it.
Sure enough, Simona Halep’s formerly-big knockers led to back problems.
Taste the rainbow?
Bruno Sammartino was my FIL’s favorite wrestler. He was an icon among the Philly Italian community.
Never heard of the guy. He was not a small man.
Dude was built like a brick wall
Heading to Charleston – so I hope everyone has a good weekend and week without me. Tra-la-la
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z4m4lnjxkY
Oh we certainly will. :-p
I knew it! ::runs off sobbing::
I have no complaints about Old Guy music today. I kind of enjoyed that.
If you’re over at YouTube, check out his version of Yellow Rose of Texas, where (like the rest of the album) he plays all the instruments . He really throws in the kitchen sink on that one- I never knew autoharp could sound that good. Oh, and Jew’s Harp as well.
Based on a sample of one Trader Joe’s store, in Indianapolis, I thought the inventory was pretty weak. Not a wide selection of merchandise.
Too many damn cookies at my local TJs.
They’re cheap, but I’ve found that their frozen prepared food is more packaging than product and a lot of their fresh stuff is like right up on the sell by date.
Yes. I don’t go there because I rarely eat prepared frozen meals and their produce is horrible. They do have a nice flower section, but so does the big chain grocery near me. Some people are almost cultish about TJs and I just don’t get it.
Yeah, I find they’re a little more overpriced than the nearby chain, with slightly lesser quality. If I’m going to bother going to TJ, I’ll just go to Whole Foods or Fresh Market and spend a bazillion dollars for air-cooled turbo chicken breasts or whatever.
We don’t have any of those chains here. Just the local Adams Fairacre Farms.
That’s another thing I don’t get. Air chilled chicken? Isn’t that….refrigerated?
Yeah, what’s the alternative? Slain underwater and immediately frozen? Air chilled could mean left outside, really. And, honestly, I for one don’t particularly care how my chicken came to be cold.
Someone from Berkeley will be right over to tell you how to care.
Snow Chicken
LOL @ Snow’s mom. I have Snow’s sister in a pot with celery, onion, carrots, garlic, bell pepper, and covered in cheap white wine as I type.
In my admittedly limited experience, I’ve found chickens to be not terribly bright and kind of ill-tempered. But delicious.
The TJ produce I’ve seen has been good quality but overpriced.
I used to get TJ pizza dough, but they changed supplier and it was crap, so we started making our own dough.
Melania Trump criticised for wearing colonial-style hat during Kenyan safari
Soldiers, guides and wildlife specialists replaced the pith helmet long ago with more practical and less controversial headgear, but they are still in ceremonial use in a handful of countries – and by tourists in Africa who have limited experience of local conditions and sensibilities.
Van Pelt, the hunter from Jumanji, hardest hit.
Is it their sensibility that they have better things to worry about besides what hat someone wears?
Also, would.
The woman simply cannot take a bad photograph.
She’s not even my cup o’ tea, especially, but god damn is she an attractive woman.
It’s the cheek bones.
I think you’re right. She is like the textbook definition of “statuesque”.
Oh man, if Trump puts a Melania statue on the Mall, I’ll vote for him.
It was, until they got woke totally on their own and without any outside advice.
Why isn’t anybody outraged at the bill that I’m sure she is running up over there? I’m sure her jaunts over seas are just as wasteful as those of Michele Obama’s.
I think it would be cheaper to ship a pith helmet to DC so Melania could pose with it on the South Lawn for all the white supremacists who support her husband.
Hey everyone, Pope Jimbo expects consistency from the political “Teams”, let’s all point and Nelson laugh at him.
*slinks off in shame*
You know if I had started drinking the moment I woke up, I wouldn’t have made such a rookie mistake.
It’s okay Jimbo, I’ll drink to your honor.
Smallest….Shot……Glass……EVAH!
While there is a bill, I think it’s less of a vacation and more of a FLOTUS/Public Affairs persuasion tour. Frankly we’re probably getting more mileage out of having her interact with the locals than some of the SOF operations we’re running – and likely still cheaper. Big points for her over the Chinese too.
It is one of the most knowledgeable people on Nazism alive using his expertise to sound the alarm as to what he sees as an existential threat to American democracy.
People who vote for the candidate I don’t liike are an existential threat to democracy.
Democracy, democracy, democrazy
What time does rape officially become legal?
I heard they’re switching over to Rape Standard Time on November 4th this year.
Not sure I can hold off that long.
Personally I think Rape Savings Time is silly. Sure on paper, it sounds OK. Switching from anal rape to vaginal rape in the summer would seem like it would save energy because it would keep men out lurking in alleys longer. Not to mention the wear and tear it saves on Winter Vagina.
In reality, though, has any study shown any savings?
PROFESSOR STEVE SMITH CONDUCT STUDY IF ASKED.
We’ve been over this time and again. You suck as a scientist STEVE SMITH!
How many times have we tried to explain to you that a control group is a bunch of hikers you don’t rape so you can compare them to the test group. You keep insisting that the control group is a bunch of hikers you tie up so you can rape them later at your leisure once you are done raping the test group.
a bunch of hikers you tie up so you can rape them later
You’ve got till then to compare the two arms, quit slacking.
Sorry straff, you’re too far into the future. It’s already raped where you are.
Gustave, since it has been a while, I did respond to your question on the adjustable bed. I’m not actually on here very often, so if you have any more questions, might be best to just email me. shedendblue(at)gmail(dot)com
I’ll go back.. appreciate that very much! I think that answers everything I had, and puts my mind at ease if we end up with one.
Melania Trump has prompted consternation, some anger and much derision by choosing a pith helmet – a symbol of colonial rule across Africa – as headwear for a brief safari in Kenya.
She should have worn a coonskin cap.
>>coon
Triggered
It would be nice to see any of the people hyperventilating over her haberdashery to just admit that she could wear pretty much anything at all and they’d bitch about it. Also, it’s a hat. Get over it. If this is a topic of concern for you, you desperately need to find purpose in your life.
Reminds me how the peer reviewer for the fake “Dog-park Rape Article” sneered at the usage of the word ‘Fronteer’ as racist, but had no problem with the ridiculous article.
I think if you’re complaining about the First Lady’s hat then you must feel like we’re in great shape as a country. Like there’s really nothing to complain about if the topic of the day is politically-incorrect headgear.
Since we’re nothing here if not pedantic, isn’t it really millinery, since she’s a she? I thought haberdashers just did mens’ hats.
Yes, or rather all men’s clothing and accessories in general.
In Britain, it means a person who sells sewing related items, like buttons, zippers and threads.
Huffpose headline:
Women Let Out A Primal Scream Over Brett Kavanaugh. It Didn’t Matter.
We threw a tantrum, but we didn’t get our way.
“This sucks. I hate you, Mommy and Daddy!”
My love shines on….
Honestly, the more I hear from the Oppressed Womynz Society of America, the more I wish Ted Nugent was the press secretary. At this point I’m actually in favor of oppression just because the people who aren’t experiencing it are so fucking obnoxious they’re making it seem like a great idea.
That’s interesting – none of the women in my life did any such thing
That is because they’re not ‘real women’. Someone should take their vagina away /prog
The presence of a vagina doesn’t matter anymore anyway.
I am woman, hear me REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I will not argue, but I will leave this here.
http://dz8z45gu0xcif.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/25071117/Andre-Giant-Princess-Bride-h2.jpg
Seconded
Ya know, thinking about Melania and her insensitive apparel, it made me think of my mailman.
Seems like the US Postal Service is about some imperialistic headgear too.
Now who is gonna point and scream at the USPS ?
Lysander Spooner?
-1 American Letter Mail Co.
Rape culture strikes back
#MeToo has grown into badge of solidarity among women. The irony, however, is that nothing could be more disempowering than to teach women that men are their enemy, and that a potential sexual assault is an unstated threat in almost all aspects of male-female interaction.
But the most pernicious effect of the Obama-era rules has been taking the accusers’ version of events as an article faith. Congressman Jared Polis (D-Colo.) even argued that college men accused of sexual misconduct should be dismissed without any corroborating evidence. “If there are 10 people who have been accused, and under a reasonable likelihood standard maybe one or two did it, it seems better to get rid of all 10 people,” he said. “We’re not talking about depriving them of life or liberty. We’re talking about them being transferred to another university, for crying out loud.”
Due process is just another means by which the patriarchy oppresses teh womynz.
‘Cause that will have no effect on the alleged rapist at all, and other colleges love to have people presumed to be guilty of sex crimes on their campus.
Sure, I worked hard to get into a top college with a scholarship, but doing my education by email at the local community college is just as good!
It’s not your right to study at that college, but it is that right off your ex-girlfriend to remove you at her whim.
The problem is that they want to apply this ‘guilty until innocent’ standard for only sexual crimes, which is completely arbitrary. Murder is worse, so it’s not due to the severity of the crime.
Also the logical reason for it being the other way is as has been pointed out. Lynching someone guilty is ‘ok’ because they’re guilty. But if only after they are shown to be innocent, then they will be already dead (ruined, etc.).
Akshally… murder is okay depending on the victim.
if you kill a Cishet white man(or a traitor white woman), you deserve a professorship. If you kill a trans black woman then that is doubleplus ungood, and evidence is not needed.
Polis deserves to be strung up for that one.
I heard from a friend that someone saw him grab a chick’s ass at a party in college. Prove I’m wrong, or resign.
I fucking hate that guy.
The scariest thing about that asshole is that he may very well become CO’s next Governor. Polis is the kind of people that win Dem primaries.
Great libertarian hope Polis? Say it isn’t so!
We all know that “progressivism” never stops where they say it will. Today he says this is just a matter of moving them to a different college; tomorrow it will be prohibiting them from owning firearms; the next day it will be throwing them in jail.
Slutty Saturday!
http://archive.is/jJxOd
Honestly don’t see a reason to go past number 1.
She looks high maintenance. I’ll go with 10 and her beautiful eyes.
Yes, I was stupid enough to go there .
On the upside, I have a handy list now that I can put to use.
I didn’t see “check yourself into an institution” anywhere. Fake news.
I didn’t see “Suck-start a shotgun” anywhere. Useless news.
I think they’ll skip all of those and go with “throw a tantrum”.
Have some buzzword salad
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It is important for modern manufacturers to actively engage with customers to ensure they are creating products and services that help them meet their sustainability goals, such as increased energy efficiency and reduced emissions and waste. For example, manufacturers like PPG are developing architectural coatings for homes and businesses that can improve indoor air quality, as well as automotive coating processes that require less energy and shorter cure times. In the future, electric and autonomous vehicles will be enabled by modern innovations in battery coatings and LIDAR-reflective coatings.
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Sustainability efforts must go beyond product innovation and operations and extend to employees, communities and customers. This can be achieved by strengthening philanthropic efforts, leveraging a diverse and inclusive workforce and supplier network, and maintaining health and safety as a top priority.
Our success depends on the success of our people – we must ensure they are safe, healthy, engaged and valued for their diverse talents. Through our people and products, manufacturers can make meaningful contributions in communities where they operate.
Brought to you by PPG. Now get out there and buy some sustainable paint. Save the planet.
“sustainable paint”
This paint has 1/10th the footprint of regular paint. You just have to paint 20 times as often.
Are these not the same dolts who made it so I can no longer use Red Lead, the most efficacious marine paint for below the waterline? I’m still bitter and I don’t care to heed their guidance any longer.
Whut? You cant get that anymore? WTF?
I can understand why OMWC is excited about a possible Joe Biden presidential run. After all, they are kindred spirits.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DwXweiRjckI
At least The Onion hasn’t lost track of Joe.
But the democrats totally care about women! They won’t tolerate creeps like that.
But the other Onion article is more relevant:
https://politics.theonion.com/senator-feinstein-wondering-if-now-a-good-time-to-discl-1829555909
Uffda OMWC, try to keep up.
We busted the Arby’s vandal a long time ago. You’ll be happy to know that our permissive society didn’t over charge him with a felony. Nope we only charged him with 3 misdemeanors (one gross): criminal defamation, disorderly conduct and public nuisance.
I actually feel bad for the kid. He didn’t even do this to stir up the outrage machine. He just did it because he was bored. He sent the pic of the prank to his girlfriend who posted it as a goof and then the Outrage brigade took it and ran.
The only people who should really be investigated are the morons who took the time to harass the employees as if the Arby’s was really down with the racist messaging.
There’s a rather nice community just outside town called Gingerville. There’s a big wooden sign at the entrance, and the letters are apparently detachable, such that they could be rearranged to form an insulting and yet humorous word, should any of the teenagers who live there care to do so. Ask me how I know this.
Ironically, it’s the whitest neighborhood on Earth.
Ginger haired people tend to have fair skin, so not seeing the irony. Its not like its Germantown in Philly.
The irony lay more in the name once rearranged. As in, nobody who might be offended by the revision lives anywhere near that community.
If you want current Minnesoda crime, let’s talk about dirty beavers found in Minnesoda hotels.
Don’t blame me, I was already 100 miles away and can prove ’cause I called a friend and asked him what time it was, thereby establishing my alibi.
Sure you have an alibi, but I’ve got a gnawing suspicion….
I actually feel bad for the kid. He didn’t even do this to stir up the outrage machine. He just did it because he was bored.
I have tried to remain resolutely oblivious to this. Did he rearrange the letters already on the sign? It’s challenging to make effective use of a pre-existing set of letters. He should get some credit for that.
Yup, just re-arranged what was already there. He was waiting for a bus.
In other words, he did what every stupid bored kid since the invention of the alphabet has done. And like I said, he didn’t run around pretending to be outraged. That was all the result of the usual morons.
Theres his mistake, he should have said he wanted to start a conversation, then all could be forgiven.
A zombietime update! Started reading this site back in ’04. Every time Zombie still updates is an auspicious day!
(yes I know it’s 3 months old…I don’t check legacy sites that frequently).
Also plan on catching the Fathom Events 50th Anniversary screening of Bullitt tomorrow afternoon.
Hey LT Fish… I saw your name on the latest Nerkish video. Very cool!
His twitter feed is tied for the second best on that platform. The first being, of course, Thoughts of Dog.
Is the Skittle still under the fridge?
yes, fren. it is. and i. will keep watching it.
Ha!
I’ve never seen that one – it’s funny.
Me too, doggie. Me too.
Yeah, I back him and a few other comics folks on patreon – Rags for one – now that their uncensored comic has been pirated on a few sites and 4Chan, it’s definitely gonna be the only way to free da tiddies!
I’m waiting on a furniture delivery. I’m stop number 6 and they are at stop 5. I love delivery tracking.
It’s indeed wonderful. We can even track our pizza and grocery delivery. Life just gets better and better.
I could even track my appliance repair dude, so I could leave my office when he was finishing up the job before me. No more waiting around for four hours!!
The cat is freaking out, of course. OMG, YOU MOVED STUFF!!! What’s this?! AAAAAHHHH!
If Soros financed commies can’t win in Berkeley, that’s quite heartening.
Adam Serwer goes spelunking in the history books, doesn’t like what he finds.
The lesson of the post-Reconstruction Supreme Court is that a determined Court majority can prove stubbornly resistant to short-term swings of political fortune. Even if Democrats win the next election cycle, and the one after that, an enduring conservative majority on the Supreme Court will have the power to shatter any hard-won liberal legislative victory on the anvil of judicial review. It will be able to reverse decades-old precedents that secure fundamental rights. It will further entrench the rules of a society in which justice skews toward the wealthy, and the lives of those without means can be destroyed by a chance encounter with law enforcement. It will do all these things and more in the name of a purely theoretical freedom, which most Americans will never be able to afford to experience.
Feature, not bug. The nation was never intended to be governed according to the whims and manias of the mob.
Also- There were no federal hate crime laws in the 1870s? Outrageous!
which fundamental rights are we talkin bout
“It will be able to reverse decades-old precedents that secure fundamental rights. ”
My question too. I am guessing not negative rights.
Abortion. The expansion of accommodation laws.
Because real freedom means not having to make economic decisions because the government makes them for you.
I think it would be cheaper to ship a pith helmet to DC so Melania could pose with it on the South Lawn for all the white supremacists who support her husband.
Sloopy could rent her that stuffed tiger.
Bruno Sammartino, the greatest wrestler ever. Don’t argue with me, you’re wrong.
Milo of Croton wants a word with you!
Question for the Glibs:
Who is a bigger group of hysterical sissies who are convinced everyone they meet is out to kill them? Cops or Women?
Minnesoda Public Radio puts forth a compelling case for women being more paranoid than cops.
Um, I’m going to put that into the “Things that didn’t happen” file. Yeah, you were allegedly grabbed while on a run and the rapist was only prevented from pulling you into the woods by your dog and you didn’t think it was worth reporting? Suuuuuuuuuuuuure. And if it did happen, you suck as a human. What about the next gal running by?
Yeah, I’m gonna go with bullshit as well. Dogs are the second best asshole repellent available.
This need for attention is really getting pathetic.
Not only that, but how stupid is she to be unable to figure out which station to call.
She’s full of shit. Call and the dispatchers will take care of everything. Also, the cops I know are pretty good about protecting women from freaks.
No shit. Attempted grabbing in a park? I bet officers from either jurisdiction would be showing up if she called right after it happened. Four weeks later? Yeah, here’s a form to fill out.
I’m just gonna go ahead and say that while there are certainly bad cops and plenty of lazy cops, most are people who are generally trying to do their job, and that job entails stuff like making a phone call to the neighboring jurisdiction if someone has reported a credible attempted assault and isn’t sure about who would be in charge of the investigation. Also, rapists are like most criminals in that they’re looking for opportunity, not challenge, and a dog of any size is going to deter them right off the bat.
The Atlantic takes on the academic hoaxers.
Yet another paper has a rather more sinister hue. In “Rubbing One Out: Defining Metasexual Violence of Objectification Through Nonconsensual Masturbation,” the fictitious author argues that men who masturbate while thinking about a woman without her consent are perpetrators of sexual violence:
By drawing upon empirical studies of psychological harms of objectification, especially through depersonalization, and exploring severel veins of theoretical literature on nonphysical forms of sexual violence, this articles seeks to situate non-concensual male autoerotic fantasizing about women as a form of metasexual violence that depersonalizes her, injures her being on an affective level, contributes to consequent harms of objectification and rape culture, and can appropriate her identity for the purpose of male sexual gratification.
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Like just about everything else in this depressing national moment, Sokal Squared is already being used as ammunition in the great American culture war. Many conservatives who are deeply hostile to the science of climate change, and who dismiss out of hand the studies that attest to deep injustices in our society, are using Sokol Squared to smear all academics as biased culture warriors. The Federalist, a right-wing news and commentary site, went so far as to spread the apparent ideological bias of a few journals in one particular corner of academia to most professors, the mainstream media, and Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
These attacks are empirically incorrect and intellectually dishonest. There are many fields of academia that have absolutely no patience for nonsense. While the hoaxers did manage to place articles in some of the most influential academic journals in the cluster of fields that focus on dealing with issues of race, gender, and identity, they have not penetrated the leading journals of more traditional disciplines. As a number of academics pointed out on Twitter, for example, all of the papers submitted to sociology journals were rejected. For now, it remains unlikely that the American Sociological Review or the American Political Science Review would have fallen for anything resembling “Our Struggle Is My Struggle,” a paper modeled on the infamous book with a similar title.
Not all academic journals are cesspools of imbecilic hogwash. Your culture war is fake.
Now can we please get back to painting every white male over the age of six as a sexual predator?
the science of climate change – whats that got to do with it?
dismiss out of hand the studies that attest to deep injustices in our society, – those studies are bullshit
There are many fields of academia that have absolutely no patience for nonsense. – yes and no one claimed otherwise
While the hoaxers did manage to place articles in some of the most influential academic journals in the cluster of fields that focus on dealing with issues of race, gender, and identity, they have not penetrated the leading journals of more traditional disciplines. – but that was the point wasn’t it?
Are they wrong?
On the off chance there is a grain of truth to that statement:
“Workin’ on it!”
/the left
to be fair when they did a survey of professors the % of Marxists in engineering was 0 compared to 24 in grievance studies
Yeah, and a week later some grievance group starts a protest because the engineering department doesn’t have the “correct” number of “victims” and a paper is published stating that math is “partriachal”. Enough of that shit and the insane are running the asylum.
From the Portlandia sketch:
“I drove here way too slow, didn’t I?”
“Yeah.”
“I’m so weird with that gas pedal. The thing just moves the whole vehicle forward…”
OMG
Yikes!
Lets be careful out there, Glibs.
That whole article is hilariously deadpan:
“Stop Rubbing Toothpaste On Your Boobs, It Won’t Make Them Bigger”
https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/stop-rubbing-toothpaste-on-your-boobs-it-wont-make-them-bigger/
I just do it cause it feels sooo good.
which fundamental rights are we talkin bout
The fundamental right to cake. They all want it.
It was posted yesterday, but I’m still seething about this.
Lawyers, isn’t this a lawsuit just waiting to happen?
Yup. Defamation per se, no CDA immunity, no Sullivan “actual malice or reckless disregard”.
Sure, the little dears are judgment-proof now, but that’s why God invented garnishment.
I’d think the college is liable too; make them hand over their endowment.
Not seeing how hook the college into this – its not the college’s website, I don’t think, and the students running it aren’t doing it on behalf of the college (as employees or agents) as far as I know.
I sort of wish I lived on the wrong side of the river, now that I see how close St. Paul is to bringing forth a utopia. All they need is a little more money. If all the levies and fee hikes pass this year, the average homeowner is going to have about $350/year added to their property taxes.
Yup, that is right. One of the things that the new progressive mayor of St. Paul is going to use that money for is to eliminate library fines. So you cynics can’t say that there is nothing left to cut.
LOL the giant tax increase required to replace all the stolen books is totally going to take everyone by surprise.
$350 a year per HH? Apart from technical/reference/textbooks or first run hardcover, that’s more than most households would spend if they just bought the books they borrow.
Those poor, helpless Democrats
For all the chaos of the Trump White House, the GOP remains adroit at using the levers of power in our modern political system. Senate Democrats and Republicans are not even playing the same kind of game. The GOP comes to work ready for full-contact boxing while Democrats were setting up for a friendly game of checkers.
The Democrats just want what’s best for the country, and those mean old Republikkkins trampled them underfoot as they stampeded their chosen sex criminal through the confirmation process. Oh, perfidy!
What color is the sky in that person’s world?
At least that title points out that the democrats had a dirty play they pulled and got outplayed. Oh, I am gonna be collecting and drinking proggie tears once this is all done.
I’m a little fuzzy on the rules of checkers, but does it usually start by accusing your opponent of being a sexist, misogynist, rapist, boozehound, out-of-control partier?
“Stop Rubbing Toothpaste On Your Boobs, It Won’t Make Them Bigger”
But they smell minty and taste yummy.
Yeah, I told my ex to rub toilet paper on her boobs if she wanted them to grow bigger. When she asked how that worked I pointed out she had been wiping her ass with it and that thing had gotten as big as a house…
Chef John’s latest is a really tasty looking black lentil/sausage/kale stew.
But it’s 80 degrees here now so maybe next weekend.
way to ruin some perfectly good sausage.
WTF is The Jews Ear Juice? I have consulted all manner of decoders and can’t find anything. Can someone hepl me!!!1eleventy!!