What’s up, Glibs? I have an advanced case of ennui, and don’t feel like enacting anyone’s labor today, including mine. Also, I’ve been whistling the fucking M*A*S*H theme ever since I read Q’s article. I just want to take a nap. Its an easy fucking life I have.
Florida Man is fucking killing it with the crazy/stupid in my neck of the woods.
OPEC dreams of $100/bbl oil. Please. It won’t stay above $80 and WTI isn’t to $70 yet. Let’s not get overwrought. I continue to hear that there are plenty of proven non-producing wells that will fire back up if the WTI price gets over $75.
I’m not sure which part of this is the saddest. The fact that Olympic gymnasts can be had for a loaf of bread like a Venezuelan prostitute, probably. What a profoundly fucked up
And finally, Andrew McCabe’s day is getting worse. I’ll bet he never foresaw the day when he’d lose his pension AND have charges referred when he decided to help the new boss before she was actually his boss.
So here you go. The obvious song is obvious.
I’m at an airport and CNN is insisting that McCabe is being railroaded and is a hero or something. So your link is fake news
Is it possible for a news network to be mentally retarded?
If it’s run by Jeff Zucker, yes.
Are you going to believe your lying eyes?
Is it possible for one to NOT be retarded?
Evidence says NO.
Name a news network that isn’t.
It’s CNN, they could just rename it to retard network, but NYT is fighting them hard for that title.
Lately my favorite airport lounge stopped having CNN on at all times. A victory for my mental health.
TBS commercials for their rap battles and Samantha Bee show, and airport TV make me nuts.
Too bad Clapper the Perjurer isn’t headed for pound him in the ass prison.
We need more government prisons.
By government prisons, I mean prisons for the government to stay in.
I like this idea. We could just make them all like Bridge Over the River Kwai. That way they’d get to lord it over each other AND have their precious trains, and not bother everyone.
The first inmate to rape an incarcerated politician should automatically be considered for the presidential medal of freedom
High Five Day!
Deep six day
“Spider, the American people owe you a debt of gratitude for raping the shit out of Andrew McCabe”
On behalf of the American public, I award you the STEVE SMITH STAR for politician rape with extreme prejudice. Well done, lad.
STEVE SMITH ENDORSE MEDAL OF FREEDOM. AND BY MEDAL OF FREEDOM, MEAN RAPE WITH MEDAL.
Everyone who’s ever did or is doing anything that has the appearance of being anti-Trump is a hero. So I hear.
My dog ate poison last night.
I got home at 330, woke up at 5 to get to work.
Ready to get out of work and nap
She’s fine.
Dont know why I didn’t start with that.
Just load her up on vitamin K.
Oh good. Rat poison?
Ugh. I put the cubes in our camper when I winterize and missed one this past spring. Found our puppy newf nosing and taking a lick. Nothing hurt, but almost had a heart attack.
Oh my gosh. So glad to hear she’s OK!
Yes, neither do I!
But very glad to hear it.
Damn Scary, I hope She’s O.K.
Damn, Doom. Did your dog make it?
Yeah. It wasn’t like rat poison or anything. She ate some bird seed that can cause pancreatitis and some other organs to start to inflame. Too much fat in a few minutes.
They gave her bunch of liquid and some meds. We’re mostly concerned with blockage, so they took an x-ray. She’s feeling better now
By chance do you have an Australian Shepherd?
2 border Collies and a beagle mix now. One collie looks like an Aussie
I had an Aussie that ate mouse poison once. 2 of my friends had Aussies that got into poison too. Damn dogs are so smart they’re dumb.
My Aussie’s fav food was broccoli. I’m serious. He also loved beer and wine.
My greyhound has stolen beer before. She also likes carrots.
Border Collies are notorious for eating stuff they shouldn’t.
And Dachshunds.
Come to think of it, every dog eats a lot of stuff they shouldn’t.
Not my Sapsarees, or the Rottweiler I used to have.
I continue to be amazed that the Dean Beast, King of the Lizardkillers, never eats any of the snakes or lizards he kills.
Are you guys saying that if there’s a perfectly good pile of puke on the floor, your dogs aren’t interested?
Yup. Damn dog leaves it all for me to clean up.
I guess I’m fortunate in that my hound isn’t that aggressive about eating things. Hell, she regularly skips her morning food when it gets hotter. She’s a strange dog.
Uh, Briz certainly is interested. Who can turn their nose up at a free, hot lunch? Not her.
And Bella, the poison and Wallet Eating Wonder!
Aussies are notorious for herding stuff they shouldn’t. Mine used to herd my neighbors cattle, and his chickens. He herded the other neighbors kids. No one else seemed to find this as amusing as I did.
One of the renfairs I worked had a sheepdog demonstration. The shepherd would send out his border collies to herd a crowd to him.
My wife’s dog ate her prenatal vitamins a few weeks ago. We had to take him to the vet over it. That sucked.
“Well Mr. Lachowsky, your dog won’t develop spina bifida anytime soon.”
Wow! GBV this morning and the Clash this afternoon!
A little Replacements tonight and we’ll hit the trifecta of awesome.
Turn in your Minnesoda card Tundra
Background to that video.
Should have gone with this.
Here’s Minnesoda music
*barfs*
*pours bleach into ears*
Minnesoda Musik
Ahem. NoDak music by its #1 musician.
Without clicking; I predict some lovely champagne music.
Fucking beautiful.
*solitary tear rolls down cheek*
What,no Johnny Lang? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3tigVYfHVmQ
Damn. Good call Tulip. Although, it’s partly his fault; he said he was from Minneapolis once he started being successful.
*see Drew Carey Show episode with him and Joe Walsh*
Where’s my *Too Fat Polka*?
Also known as “The Pennsylvania Polka”.
The Justice Department’s inspector general has sent a criminal referral regarding former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to the US attorney’s office in Washington, according to a source familiar with the matter.
If the referral had gone to an office out in flyover country, I’d feel better. The USA in DC is bound to be just another swamp creature, all too eager to cover for his fellow swamp creatures. I’m not feeling optimistic that McCabe will actually be prosecuted-prosecuted, but I hope to be surprised.
The prosecutor is John Huber. He’s based in Utah.
I got it wrong. It was not sent to Huber.
I thought the IG referrals were going to Huber. I wonder why this one didn’t. Will anyone of them, or will they all stay in DC so the swamp can look after its own?
Its not just that the USA is in DC, that means the case will also be tried in DC. Much of my optimism that the IG/Huber/Utah connection might actually lead to people going to jail has been deflated.
People in the know claim it’s actually Huber.
Oh, I agree that he won’t actually get prosecuted. He might roll on someone important. But it does my tiny, Grinch-sized heart good to think that he got that spike of fear in his taint when he heard that the IG had referred him out as a possible criminal.
Huh…so I can access the site again.
Do any of you techno-nerds know why my workplace firewall would, 1) allow this site for months (started here in January), then 2) abruptly decide to block the site several weeks ago, and then 3) magically decide to unblock it? Fucking magnets, how do they work?
New libertarian it?
I’m not seeing the Family-Friendly badge anymore. Maybe it is set to block family-friendly sites?
HEY?! It is still there! We are abso-goddamned-lutely family friendly!
So now I’m A Lute? You’re a Lute? We are All Lute?
We went on a kick of posting massive amounts of hardcore porn until SP shut us down.
SP wouldn’t have shut it down if you guys hadn’t kept giving her home made pr0n clips one star ratings. Sheesh!
*slowly steps away from Jimbo*
*for the second time this week*
Wait. What other catt but transgression am I guilty of this week?
Not saying I am innocent, just admitting that old age is fucking with my memory.
Maybe last week? A comment about officers doing nothing other than credentialing camels.
I sort of remember Swiss bragging about the cute camel his unit used to have, but I don’t remember making any comments about it.
But it does sort of sound like me. Anyhow, I’ve moved on to new outrages and insults.
And when I gave SP’s videos a poor rating, I had the decency to blame it on OMWC, not her.
Even Dustin Hoffman couldn’t save Ishtar.
*narrows gaze*
My equipment requires wide-screen. Harrumph.
or it can’t be seen?
For the 10 millionth time: I DO NOT CAT BUTT. I have NEVER cat butted.
I banish! Forever!
Seriously, though, in spite of what some people here apparently think, I never do anything about commenter transgressors until instructed to do so by a consensus of the Founders (of which I am not one!). Every time it has happened, many hours of agonized discussions have taken place among them first.
If you get banned, look to your own behavior for the reason.
Hah! Mike is going to get catt buted for telling scurrilous lies about SP!
You mean we have to be responsible for our own actions!? On a libertarian site? *faints*
I don’t even know what scurrilous means! Joke’s on you!
Looks like we found the unnamed racist commenter…
He only stomps on Asians.
And my afternoon is made. Thank you, sir.
So much for former Glib
I admit it, it was Gojira. He would explicitly schedule his movie reviews 1 hour after any Thicc Thursday that featured a black woman.
Several weeks ago? Like five? Because that was the last time it used the phrase “cunt spittoon.” That might be the trigger.
Gojira? Gojira?
I guess that was it. See you in June.
Aaaaaaand Gojira is gone again
Site heuristics and category definitions updates.
A site with little traffic has a good potential for being misclassified, then misreclassified several times. They probably updated the forward proxy filter definitions.
“Do any of you techno-nerds know why my workplace firewall would, 1) allow this site for months (started here in January), then 2) abruptly decide to block the site several weeks ago”
Is your workplace be woke?
I continue to hear that there are plenty of proven non-producing wells that will fire back up if the WTI price gets over $75.
I know a bunch of people who would be thrilled if oil went back up to 70 or 80. They would be back on the rigs and in the money again immediately.
Wasn’t it someone around here that said that once it stays much over $60, the shale fields will go back into high gear?
At least here in NoDak, the exploration slowed considerably, but the pumping is still going on. If oil gets above $* pumping will increase some and exploration will fire up again. I would expect that to be the case in the other shale plays as well.
OPEC is full of shit. They lost the oil war once already. And we are only finding more oil with each passing year. And we are getting better at getting it out of the ground, so costs are going down.
*I hear different “magic” numbers, but it seems that it’s somewhere in the $60-70 range
Yeah, that’s pretty much what I am hearing. Shale and fracking put a firmish cap on the price of oil. It might spike above the $60 – 70 range, but it shouldn’t be for long.
I’m interested to see. There’s been some consolidation over the last 3 years, I understand. If there are only 5-10 hands controlling almost all of the spigots, they might let it run a little. If there are still a bunch of wildcatters, they’ll turn on their pumps as soon as they think they can produce at profit for 8-12 months. But the idea it would get over $80 is ludicrous.
consolidation of leases?
Yeah. Guys who have a well but couldn’t make money operating it and didn’t want to or couldn’t afford to wait it out. There’s at least 3 regions, so I may have been applying a narrow trend to a broad topic.
The oil boom and bust cycle is a thing. Small and mid companies have to borrow a lot to drill new wells, because its expensive. If the price drops soon enough after they drill, they can’t meet their debt service and go belly-up and the bigger more solvent players get their wells. As it has ever been.
That was certainly the case in the Bakken. I’m not sure how many players are left, but some smaller outfits certainly did get bought out.
As the price goes up the incentive for OPEC members to cheat becomes more realistic. Demand-supply. Even Venezuela would want to pump more if they had enough gorilla tape.
My understanding is $60 makes new shale wells (exploration) start to be profitable.
I really don’t know what the threshold is, but there is a number and when it gets hit, it puts a bunch of guys I know back in the money.
Yup. And instead of sob stories like this they will get back to printing stories about how evil it is to gouge all those poor workers in the man camps.
Does matter what the question is, boobs are the answer.
http://archive.is/6v4jd
29 and 31 por favor. Bunnies everywhere tremble with fear at 33.
THANK YOU
damn i needed that today. and will likely tomorrow pending tonight’s Caps/BJs quadruple OT result.
Holy smokes on 7 – those can’t be comfortable, bolted on like that.
Also, 13 is Kate Upton doing the Cat Daddy. NSFW, unless you have a cool office.
Hnnnng.
I’ll be in my bunk.
#1 drew on her eyebrows with a Sharpie. #6 works for me.
Hello fellow Glibs. I’ve had a few busy weeks so I’ve been doing more lurking than commenting. In TOK news, my sled hockey team went undefeated last weekend at nationals and we won our division. So did our A team. So there are SOME Blackhawks that are winning.
Also, I went on my second interview today with a company that makes the plastic in Tide pods.
Awesome on the sled hockey! Congrats on the plastics opportunity. I hear they’re the future.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a4/41/c4/a441c421555bf01c85e7f68b6b56ad6e–homer-simpson-chicago-blackhawks.jpg
Congrats, Kevin!
Did you bury any?
YES! 5 goals and 5 assists in 5 games. I had my first-ever hat trick the first game. Also, I played D most of the weekend so they were pretty much all longer shots. That’s not typical for me.
Damn. That’s some good shooting there
LouKevinSniper!
Where mama keeps the peanut butter!
Nice job, Kevin! What a blast!
Congrats. And that job sounds awesome. I’ve loved tide pods ever since I found out that millennials were poisoning themselves by eating them.
#godblesstidepods
“Missed it by that much”
That makes me the sensei. Bow before your sensei
They do make a food grade version that you could eat. Or that would dissolve in whatever you are cooking. So someone could pre-package spices for a recipe into a pod. They also make water soluble laundry bags for hospitals. Just throw the whole bag in the wash and the bag disintegrates.
Isn’t that what a Tide Pod is, water soluble?
Yes. It’s just water soluble film with detergent inside. Same as a dishwasher tab.
How good is that film for the water supply? I’m wondering what the Deep Tunnel Water Reclamation does about the stuff.
(Not that I expect you to know personally.)
OK, well here’s some FAQ’s from the company. I’m only doing this because most of the answers to the questions ARE THE QUESTIONS!
https://www.monosol.com/frequently-asked-questions/
Hmm. Maybe one of my jobs will be to finish the FAQ page.
It’s supposed to be environmentally friendly, from what they tell me.
Hilarious. I know exactly the company you’re talking about. The people I am dealing with there are pretty cool.
Thanks, it helps to know that!
I’ve worked with Kurary before, both as a customer and (now) as a supplier. Pretty decent place. Hope you’re honing your Japanese skills, that can help a lot there.
Those are some good eats!
I wonder if that stuff is the same as what holds together the flavor egg in Ms. Grass’ soup.
Congrats! We have our likely final game of the season tonight. The league shifted us up a division for the playoffs for some reason, so we’re playing against 20 year olds. Our bold plan is to meet 90 minutes before the game at the rink bar and get drunk before we hit the ice.
A solid plan. Just make sure you hit that sweet spot where you’re loose but not fall down drunk.
Totally disagree. Following down is probably the best way to defend those speedy little fuckers!
Or, you know, falling.
Will most likely be following most of the game 😀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPd0EtQ_1Ck
Nice! Congrats on the wins!
Thanks everyone!
a company that makes the plastic in Tide pods.
Cool Ranch Tide Pods
Loaded Baked Potato Tide Pods
Flamin’ Hot Tide Pods
Cinnamon Ice Bucket Challenge Tide Pods
ANy chance they can poison David Hogg?
Congratulations, TOK.
Congrats on the sled hockey team! And, good luck with the plastics company. The kids are hungry and need the pods!
Teen Vogue reporter: “I went out looking to get groped so I could write a story about OMG sex-assault is everywhere. I succeeded.“
And when she says “groped” she means “rolled hard on Molly then blew a dozen guys and regretted it”.
Editor’s Note: Shaking hands and platonic hugs were considered groping for this article.
Jesus titty-fucking Christ, what an asshole.
Lemme go hang with bunch of MDMA-fueled trust-fund douchebags and see what happens!
Holy crap, check out the video “Teen Vogue Take”. What a collection of misfits. It’s The View for drama club rejects.
btw, i used to spend lots of time going to big + small concerts, outdoors, indoors, festivals etc.
I definitely bumped/ground with some strange women, almost entirely initiated by them. Not once did i ever put my hands on another person with salacious intent.
Maybe once or twice i tapped people’s shoulders/hips to try and wedge myself past them (either to get a beer, or to relieve myself of beer-previously consumed), and some drunk chick gave me the gas-face like, “aint you go trying nothing with me” and I just went “sorry, seriously just going past here”-face in return.
My “reality-check” intuition tells me that, yes, there’s probably a handful of creeps at any large public function who play grabass. But it doesn’t ever happen 20 times to one person, and that Vogue bitch is cray cray.
Are you questioning the integrity of a Teen Vogue reporter?
Depends. Did she write the anal piece?
my claim that the author literally went looking to “get groped” isn’t really even an exaggeration.
Its in her job-title:
“Vera PapisovaVerified account
@VeraPapisova
Features Editor @TeenVogue — I run our award-winning sexual assault awareness campaign #NotYourFault. I cover stories about trauma”
The comments will make you pray on your knees for SMOD.
LOL
I’m shocked that her profile pic has a cat in it.
“Now I go to Safeway every day!”
i’m struggling with whether that is parody.
That reminds me of this joke:
A scam is being pulled, mainly on older men.
What happens is that when you stop for a red light, a young nude woman comes up and pretends to be washing your windshield. While she is doing this, another person opens your back door and steals anything in the car.
They are very good at this: They got me 7 times Friday and 5 times Saturday.
I wasn’t able to find them on Sunday.
“I am horrified that this is going on. What kind of person does these things to another human being. Men, we need a reboot on how we treat women. Porn is not real life.”
“Excuse me, “men” do not need to reboot. Don’t toss us all in your pathetic “look at me I’m a good male” post.”
” dude manages to accuse someone of virtue signaling AND drop a “not all men” without ever saying either phrase. Impressive trolling. But eff you YES ALL MEN. Unless you were raised in a cultureless bubble somewhere deep underground.”
I may have to reconsider my stance on suicide from the previous article.
I used to spend a lot of time in “the scene” and yeah, people are rubbed up on, grabbed and harassed regularly. I don’t doubt that she was probably grabbed multiple times by drunk/rolling guys and women.
I’ve had my ass and my crotch grabbed multiple times at various events over the year. I’ve had a woman just sit next to me, turn my head and start making out with me. One time, my then-girlfriend and I went to a party, and after I went to go to the bathroom – I came out and someone asked me if he could watch me and my girlfriend go to the bathroom together.
People. get. fucked. up — inhibitions go to the wind — both male and female. What’s the proposal? Ban guns? Forced “education” that will have the opposite of its intended effect? Unless you are talking about hiring millions of security guards — one for each person going to a festival everywhere in the world — you’re going to have some people be pretty rude to you. Get over it. Stick with friends at all parties. Don’t let open-top drinks out of your hand/sight. You can’t legislate away shitty/rude people.
Florida Man is also posting the links early!
The meth made him do it.
Actually, he consumed so much meth that he actually traveled 1 hour into the future.
Actually I don’t think I said actually enough in that response.
Literally
Flint mom giving Florida mom run for money.
At least Flint woman can blame it on the water.
Applause.
A new name for Asperger’s?
Hans Asperger, the Austrian paediatrician whose name describes a form of autism, actively assisted in the murder of disabled children by the Nazis, according to two sets of new research.
The claims have led to calls for his name to be removed from the syndrome that his work described in 1944.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/asperger-helped-nazis-kill-children-documents-show-djl26zpm9
I thought they had already declassified it as a syndrome?
They have. It falls under Autism Spectrum Disorder, which itself is nothing more than a description of symptoms.
Yep, DSM-5 rolled it in to autism spectrum disorder:
https://www.autismspeaks.org/dsm-5/faq#asperger
PDD-NOS: Pervasive Developmental Disorder – Not Otherwise Specified.
Seems like a wastebasket diagnosis for parents who don’t want to admit that their child is socially awkward and/or slow and/or weird.
This is my first time chiming in here, and I’m normally just a frequent lurker but I felt the need to respond here.
My son had this diagnosis right before they changed the DSM. He displayed most of the symptoms of Autism, but only had significant developmental deficits in some areas. The diagnosis let us get ABA for him, which was important to get him caught up. We’ve been able to slowly drop most services as time has passed since then.
But he is weird
Well, his parental unit *IS* a Glib!
And, welcome to the Light!
Thanks. I’ve been hangin’ around since the glibbening but I am always late to the threads.
Hi Tulpa
No no, Tulpa is my son.
The guy’s name is synonymous with “retard”. He’s not exactly being honored here.
This is kind of a perfect storm though. Its a condition that makes its suffers supper concerned with 1) being right, and 2) names
“” Olympic gymnasts can be had for a loaf of bread””
(gets “Baking Skills 101” from library, giant bags of flour)
You don’t need the flour for them, they’re really skinny.
I laughed out loud at this one. Nicely done; I tip my hat to you.
They might be skinny, but they’re strong
The nice thing about NYC is that each block has its own unique disgusting smell, so I could always find my hotel by just following my nose.
“Hmm. Dead rat, with piquant overtones of curry. Must be the next right.”
They call that “46th and Madison” in NYC. That’s what I learned
You couldn’t have picked a less-fragrant block in all of manhattan.
Its a fairly posh /boring business-area with office towers, the Roosevelt Hotel, and some men’s fashion (charles tyrwhitt and brooks brothers both within 1 block), 2 blocks from grand central
Watch out for the midtown gravy
This is my experience each time I’m up there as well. Richmond is the same way, just much smaller.
RVA? I haven’t noticed that, but maybe I’ve lived here long enough that I’m immune.
Belvidere S St wafts the smell off literal shit towards my friends old apartment pretty regularly.
Lol count yourselves lucky, I’m out in Midlo which smells of soccer moms and sadness.
Uffda. Our politicians are talking crazy in Minnesoda.
A few of them have proposed bills that would make it legal for health care providers to publish their prices for various procedures.
Any truth to the statement that healthcare providers can’t legally disclose prices? That seems extra stupid, but I guess that doesn’t mean it isn’t accurate.
“Violation of contract” and “illegal” are two different things, I think.
Not to Eddie.
Any truth to the statement that healthcare providers can’t legally disclose prices?
You’re not allowed to do disclose what the insurance company pays you to any other provider or insurance company. That’s in the contract, and/or its antitrust law.
The notion that you can’t tell a patient what you will charge for services that you provide to them is flat wrong, and is utter lunacy if you think about it.
You can tell uninsured patients what you are going to charge, of course, since you will have to tell them what they owe in order to get paid.
Insured patients see what their insurer negotiated on their Explanation of Benefits that comes from the insurance company after their visit, so there’s no ban on telling a patient what their insurance company will pay. And, since they generally have to pay the deductible and/or a copay that is a percentage of the charges, you have to tell them up front what the price is that their insurance company negotiated with you to see how much is their responsibility under their deductible and/or copay.
Not only that, ObamaCare requires hospitals to calculate a price based on an average of their insurance contracts and disclose it to uninsured patients who ask.
Thanks RC. The story didn’t sound right, but it was written by a credentialed journalist. It is astounding that they might get facts wrong or not understand the basics of the story they are writing about.
I may still believe them instead of you. I mean, what the fuck do you know about this subject? You don’t even have a journalism degree from any school, much less Columbia.
The dude is wearing a gold suit, a gold top hat and holding a bag of money — I think we can trust that he knows what he’s talking about.
You don’t even have a journalism degree from any school, much less Columbia.
*Hangs head in shame, notices crumbs on tie from lunch, picks them off and eats them.*
If I were on his jury, I’d be voting “Guilty” on Nasser. But what the fuck – if you’ve been diddled over twenty times and your thinking is “I guess that’s the price I have to pay for my dream” then you’ve got about as much credibility as one of Weinstein’s targets who kept coming back for more. I’d rather hear from the nobodies that decided their dream wasn’t worth the abuse and quit after one incident.
Lot of these claims remind me of this old joke, particularly in the Weinstein cases:
There’s a gorgeous woman at the bar. The place is the watering hole for a handsome rich guy, so he sees the woman and approaches her. His opening line, “Would you sleep with me for $10 million?”
The woman gives him a once over, and says, “Yes I would.”
So he asks her, “What about $10?”
She looks aghast and says, “What kind of woman do you take me for?”
He responds, “Sweetheart, we’ve already established /that/. We’re just haggling over price.”
If she breathes, she’s a thot!
(insert HM link here)
For the most part, these are kids that are trusting the adults. Add to that, they are under extreme pressure to compete and it’s a situation ripe for abuse. Nasser deserves far worse than prison time.
I agree. I coached Olympic women gymnasts back in the 70’s. I’ve worked with both of the Karolyis. And I am shocked by this. I look back at that time and think, “Damn! I had access to tons of bread!”
You know, I’d be pretty suspicious if I went in for an ear infection and my doctor tried to put his fingers up my ass. I’d be even more suspicious if it happened 20 times in a row.
Umm…how else is he supposed to check your temperature? Doesn’t everyone’s doctor do this? Oh God, please tell me I’m not the only one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fANwTBK3Ylg&t=0m42s
Red is for Rectal, don’t forget……
Its a finely calibrated medical instrument
That’s what she said.
Playa:
“On my last trip to the proctologist put his left hand on my shoulder and his right finger into my … No. Wait. He put his right hand on my shoulder and his left finger into my…. Fuck. No, now that I really am thinking about it, I remember both his hands on my shoulders.”
Do you want him to get a good measurement of your prostate or not?
My doctor is actually gay and has to check my prostate every couple of years – he’s made it clear that it’s not exactly his idea of a good time either. Slightly relieved, slightly insulted.
Maybe you just need to do a bit more manscaping to make it more inviting.
It’d take more than some manscaping, I think. Chunky middle-aged dudes apparently aren’t his thing.
How I ended up with him as my doctor is kind of amusing – many years ago I just grabbed the closest doctor from the directory. I was living in Boston’s South End at the time – it had a large gay population, still early-days of gentrification. I essentially have no gaydar and I did not really put two and two together – the Haring prints, the AIDS quilt prints, all just zoomed over my tiny head.
It turns out that my doctor is a specialist in HIV-positive patients – I think at a certain level he was happy to have me, “eat less, exercise more, drink less – now get out of my office, I have people with real problems to worry about”.
Yeah, that sounds like he is trying to spare your feelings. He’d be all over me.
I’d figure you’d get used to it after 20 times…
And it might be why you keep showing up.
if you’ve been diddled over twenty times and your thinking is “I guess that’s the price I have to pay for my dream” then you’ve got about as much credibility as one of Weinstein’s targets who kept coming back for more.
Except for the part about Nasser abusing children. Kinda makes a difference in my book.
I won’t shed a single tear when he gets beaten to death in the pen.
Me neither, but no need for the victim’s publicity tour.
^This.
“”you’ve got about as much credibility as one of Weinstein’s targets who kept coming back for more””
I was listening to Rogan / Bill Burr on the Louis CK accusations… and one of them made the point that, in these “pile on” situations? When one woman ‘comes out’ and confesses she suffered abuse at the hands of some slimeball like Weinstein?… and suddenly 6 more jump in and go, “OMG I AM ALSO A SURVIVOR”
…you’ve got to know that at least 1 or 2 of them *actually willingly fucked the guy just to get ahead*, and are only pretending ‘assault’ now because if the truth ever came out, they’d be branded a slut instead of a Noble Victim.
The point was that there’s every incentive in the world to turn “embarrassing truth” into “self-congratulatory victimhood”.
Its the part no one talks about – some people DO sleep with the boss to further their careers. and they do it, not because they were “pressured” to, but because they had been angling for years just to be in the position to do so.
I think there is some guilt involved like “I went along with this shit against my better judgment but maybe I just emboldened the bastard to do it to others.”
This story is fascinating in a morbid, rubber-necking past a crash sort of way.
I have no idea how two young gals were able to stuff so much stupid into one article. I’m going crazy trying to figure out what part of it to mock first.
Everyone is an expert. And all of us can get a cushy job working at a non-profit being an idiot.
Yep… totally not a religion.
I have no problem whatsoever with atheism, but stories like this seem to argue against it having very good results for the population at large.
Paraphrasing Chesterton, when you believe in nothing, you’ll fall for anything.
These guys aren’t atheists.
They believe in a very angry goddess who is of the “Smothering Mother” Jungian archetype. They believe our prosperity and independence will anger or hurt their mother and want us to stop it.
It’s actually a primitive animist religion of the sort you find among stone age tribesmen living in Papua New Guinea.
Firearms must be like the evil eye or something.
About 1 meter below the eye. And it’s evil all right.
Steps to having a conversation about climate change:
1. Ask permission to talk to someone
2. Ask an open-ended question about the other person’s thoughts on climate change
3. Listen — do not interrupt
4. Repeat back to them what you heard vs. responding with your thoughts
5. Share your personal connection to the issue and your experience
6. Share a fact that helps ground your story
7. Ask: Would you like to know more?
8. Conclude the conversation; thank them for talking
9. Ask them to join you in a specific action
somehow #5 always devolves into shrieking that we’re all Gaia rapists and have the blood of future generations on our hands.
Additionally, #5 is utterly illogical, anti-science horseshit that has no place in reasoned debate.
I think #9 is a nice way to say “Why don’t you go fuck yourself?”
Thanks Raston. I wanted to post the rules too, but I didn’t want to be Eddie Jr with a WoT.
I’ve never known any Climate Believer to actually get past #3 successfully.
They might ask the question in #7, but a “no” won’t slow them down.
Same with #1.
“Would you like to know more?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdrjzE1SE58
They left out the step which says “Be willing to reevealuate your own position”
I’ve heard #7 somewhere before, just can’t place it.
The climate activists were annoyed when I clicked on their faces.
It must have been “The only good climate change denier, is a dead climate change denier.”
#7
How is this shit any different than, “Would you like to learn about the book of mormon?”
The Book of Mormon has an internal logical consistency? And people who buy into the crazy assumptions that underly it usually are very nice people who are easy to live alongside? For example, when I tell the nice young men that want to talk about Mormonism that I’m not interested, they thank me for my time and leave me alone.
Unless I’m raking leaves in my yard, then they’ll offer to help for a while without any proselytizing.
That may have come out wrong. I didn’t mean it as an indictment on Mormanism. I meant it as, #7 sounds just like a religious person interested in converting people. I picked the Mormans because that is one that I have heard personally.
Oh, shit! The Church of Latter Day Saints got to Lachowsky.
Muahaha. We’re everywhere.
The Scientologists are gonna be pissed when they find out.
You won’t believe #4!
Sounds like the same approach a Scientologist uses.
# 4 is the Cathy Newman “so you’re saying polar bears should all die?” step
“Yes. Polar Bears hunt humans. They can fuck themselves.”
Not all. The ones in the zoo’s and circuses are cool.
Frankly, I don’t know how any of warmistas get past Share a fact .
“practice how to talk about climate change.”
They are creating the curriculum for the re education camps.
Just add in #10: If they refuse, send them to the gas chamber.
Helium or Nitrogen?
CO2 and Ozone
Cow farts.
Methane
Governor Dick-in-pooper teases running for Prez.
https://coloradopolitics.com/hickenlooper-hints-at-presidential-run-after-d-c-award-ceremony/?tr_soc_t
Locals knew this already the moment he didn’t veto the spectacularly unpopular gun laws (which have now been largely invalidated by State Court of Appeals). He knew it was hugely damaging to the State Party, but he needed that sweet lucre from the National Party.
We takin’ odds now: HIckenlooper/Tester or Tester/Hickenlooper 2020?
If it’s Trump vs Hickenlooper, I will seriously consider voting for Trump even though I detest the man. Hickenlooper is a slimy shit and I want him nowhere near the White House.
When he signed those fucking bills, I developed an intense hatred of the man and his ‘I’m a regular Joe business owner type’ shtick, which was a substantial shift from my earlier mild distaste for him.
If it’s Trump vs. Hickenlooper, the name calling on Twitter will be epic.
Cosby accuser admits to making up her story to sell her book. Sidenote, how can Cosby be getting a retrial? I thought Double Jeopardy was illegal?
He wasn’t acquitted, jury was hung, which is a mistrial, which means no jeopardy, which means he can be tried again.
jury was hung,
A jury of his peers I guess.
winner
But did they give him Quaaludes before reading the verdict?
The fact that Cosby has been saving his ludes since the 70’s is absolutely hilarious to me.
Yessss, my precioussssses
Dickinson told a lie? But she’s so believable!
I thought the first case ended in a mistrial, so no verdict either way.
I can’t believe Bill Cosby did such horrible things to Colin Kaepernick.
You’d bust a 2×4 on that jaw.
And Caitlyn Jenner.
Caitlyn got a perm?
Nah. That’s an alternate Carrot Top from another dimension where the ‘roids and plastic surgery never happened.
Carrot Top?
“She continued: “I put my hand on the Bible and I swore. I wasn’t under oath when I wrote the book.””
So that makes it OK?
Did this go up an hour early?
Yes. I accidentally converted to Mountain rather than Central time.
Ah, okay. I sat down, saw over a hundred comments and wondered how they’d gotten so many in seven minutes.
Oh, we forgot to invite you? Honest mistake…really.
3pm is when I leave work. I also had to run an errand before I got home.
It’s always mountin’ time.
isn’t your nearest neighbor P Brooks, who is about a thousand miles further on up the road? No one lives in mountain time.
No, other than two NoDak Glibs, Tundra, Jimbo, et. al are closer. And I’m talking mountin’ time, not Mountain time.
I can’t spell, so obviously I can’t read.
How far from the border (Montana) are you ?
Almost all of NoDak is between Mike and Montana. He’s almost a Minnesodan. That is why Tundra and I have deigned to meet him IRL before (granted it was in the back of a dimly lit dive bar, but it was possible for the public to see us hobknobbing with him).
I’ve driven across North Dakota several times visiting my sister in Minneapolis – I don’t recommend it, particularly in winter.
I was married to a woman from ND (Devils Lake. I policy was never go to ND in months with the letter “r” in them.
What Jimbo said. I am approximately 12 miles from Minnesoda. Which is unfortunate.
For people who are soft, this is advisable.
😉
How far into Montana are you, Mike?
https://ssl.c.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000b1viOAQ6UME/fit=1000×750/WYYELLELKBC-15-Bull-Elk-Mating-With-Cow-Elk-Yellowstone-NP-WY-c-Gerry-Reynolds.jpg
Ugh, why did I even click on that? Q’s other links have me conditioned.
^ This guy gets it…sorta
Welcome to the One. True. Time.
It feels good no?
Hello. Lurker and occassional poster who tends to hang out in the Glib Discord nowadays, but I was wondering if I might draw from the Glib’s wisdom.
There’s a Korean kid I know with passable English who’s struggling through statistics. She’s motivated, but the problem is her English reading comprehension isn’t good enough to use sites like Khan Academy or Math Stack Exchange. I’d like to recommend a good free math tutoring site in Korean for her, but I know zippo about Korea and can’t read a lick of the language and don’t know where to start. Don’t suppose anyone in this wretched hive of scum and villainy could help me find one.
My wife is from Korea. I can ask her tonight. The problem is that she is pretty well convinced she is already the smartest human on the face of the earth, so she hasn’t felt a burning need to find online resources to learn new things.
Call the burn unit!
At least I can blockquote!
And that is my #1 argument that I use to try to bring her back down to earth when she is on one of her ego trips. Her inability to choose a husband calls all of her decisions into question.
One time we were discussing various things and she said that Asians were the best race. Then that Koreans were the best Asians. Naturally South Koreans were better than North Koreans. I kept egging her on and she got about two degrees away from basically saying she was the pinnacle of human evolution. Then she caught on and called me a name in Korean.
I kept egging her on and she got about two degrees away from basically saying she was the pinnacle of human evolution. Then she caught on and called me a name in Korean.
Was it the Korean term for Neanderthal?
At the risk of stereotyping (ok, flat out stereotyping) This attitude has been universal among Koreans I have know. Chiun from Remo Williams pretty well typifies Korean thought about non-Koreans.
Koreans are the Irish of the East. Drink too much, fight too much, have an insanely inflated sense of self-worth and blame everyone else for thing that don’t go right.
You are right, all the Koreans I meet are the same way. You can always yank their chain by talking about the importance of the Gutenberg press (but be prepared to listen to the story of how Koreans invented the printing press).
It’s no good to invent something if you then fail to do anything with it.
Ah, wedded bliss.
jesse.in.mb says, “if a math hagwon exists online like Khan Academy it’s available through NAVER. Alternately https://ko.khanacademy.org/“
Japanophile Glibs! Does anyone know if:
(1) Honest Abe’s stunning decline is likely to be terminal?
(2) Koike’s slightly older stunning decline, dating back to Abe’s apparent stunning comeback last fall, remains terminal?
I consider Abe, like the LDP in general, to be probably the least bad of a bunch of uninspiring options. I would take any news on his front provided it wasn’t good news for the Democrats or some other party (unlikely, I’m guessing), and that (2) remains as true as ever. I can’t fucking stand that bitch, and was so incredibly happy to see her ass put in its place. She’s a shameless, soulless opportunist, and the phoniest woman in Japan. And that includes all the ones that are actually dudes dressed up as women.
Abe seems to bulletproof, but this one has stuck around and has some potential.
I think Koike is toast. She burned too many bridges when she started Kibō no Tō and they completely flamed out in the last set of elections.
Posted in the morning links (thanks to Sensei for the reply):
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/failed-policies-and-costly-scandals-leave-shinzo-abe-on-the-ropes-dtvqqc2mq
“Wherever you hear the cry of a Boondoggle waiting for Govt approval, I’ll be there“
“He envisions motorists’ vehicles being lowered by elevators into tunnels and onto electric sleds that whisk them along to destinations”
California is just the right amount of stupid to pay for this. Musk sure knows how to get him some government dollars.
“What a profoundly fucked up…”
STOP THE SUSPENSE!
/looks at Glib elites about the riddle.
There was an alligator in the pool! My grandma dropped acid and hijacked a busload of nuns! My little brother microwaved his arm and hurt it really bad. Gottagobye!
It wasn’t my fault!
Isn’t this just opening the door to lawsuits over misgendering?
https://pjmedia.com/trending/california-bill-force-businesses-submit-data-pay-gender/
In Kali, I assume it’s a criminal matter in addition to a civil one.
Climate Generation is a local nonprofit empowering individuals and their communities to engage in climate change solutions.
Stop using up all the hot water. Turn the goddam heat down.
A friend noted that his teenage daughter thinks nothing of running her hair dryer for 20 minutes every morning, but lectures her parents about climate change, recycling, and proper supermarket bags.
What the hell? Today makes the fourth time in my life a black dude has called me ‘scary white boy’ to my face in those exact words. What is that? I’m not a scary guy. Am I? Do I strike any of you as scary?
I asked my wife, she didn’t answer.
Why would someone say that?
I dont know. He is a forester and we met so I could show him some timber he is going to cruise for me. Everything seemed friendly and business like to me. As we were leaving we did the usual ‘nice to meet you’ stuff and then as he was getting in his truck he laughed and said ‘You are one scary white boy’. I didn’t know what to say. I dont think he meant it as an insult. I dont know what he meant.
Sounds like it’s time to print business cards.
That is a compliment and you can expect honest dealings with him.
You probly done told her twice not to talk without permission. 😉
Too busy cowering, no doubt.
That happens when you stand up and say, “Well, we’re not just going to let you walk out of here.”
Did you say “thank you?”
Actual Picture of Suthernboy
perfect
And video…
If you would quit carrying that alligator around with you, you would be less intimidating. Just saying.
Especially when you keep that gator stuffed into your pants.
Man, these euphemisms…
I was saving this for part III of my soon to be award-winning series of articles, but it seems fitting here, Suthen’s theme
Had a buddy growing up whose older brother was into Alex Harvey! Also Root-boy Slim and The Rootettes! We used to get fried and listen to his LPs. It was a very eclectic collection.
She was too afraid to answer.
Were you wearing the hat or the hair?
It was the “boy” that has you worked up isn’t it?
A distinguished gentleman of your stature hates to be thought of as a youngster.
No! Not scary at all! Nope! Nosirree!
*looks for exit*
You’re white?
My guess is that you strike people as someone who is capable of dealing with a violent situation while not being prone to violence yourself. This used to be known as masculinity. It makes some people nervous.
Was it the white hood you were wearing?
I feel like there was a huge Black Panther co-branding opportunity lost here. I mean, the sequels are inevitable, buddy. You could have been breaking ground on the theme park.
How 90’s. It should be iSwatini or Swaziland 2.0.
Last African absolute monarch? I guess officially, but at what point do we call absolute dictators, monarchs. Kim Jung-un is third generation and in some sense he is an absolute monarch.
Stable succession.
Kim is King of North Korea, being a third generation absolute dictator.
King of the North.
+1 Ernest Borgnine
Jean-Bedel Bokassa changed the name of the Central African Republic to the Central African Empire when he had himself named emperor.
On further reflection I’m thinking it’s a matter of style than form. You can have an unstable succession and the person who ends up on the throne can call him/herself King, President(for life), or Leader just as long as you remember to bow and scrape.
FTA:
That’s even worse than the Austria/Australia thing. Some people are dumb.
I’m not a scary guy. Am I? Do I strike any of you as scary?
I asked my wife, she didn’t answer.
Were you tapping the muzzle of a large frame Smith & Wesson handgun on the window of your car to attract his attention?
Golf clap.
“He envisions motorists’ vehicles being lowered by elevators into tunnels and onto electric sleds that whisk them along to destinations”
“Where are you taking me?”
“Shut up.”
Anyone seen OMWC today?
Isaac Hernandez allegedly pulled up his pants, left the home through an unlocked window and then fled on foot.
Police sources say he left behind his underwear.
Perp: “i wasn’t there”
Cop: “yeah, well, the guy who was wearing your underwear was”
Too old.
too young
(((Isaac))), you say? Could be. 38 isn’t very old though.
Not by half.
I have been trying to compile a list of these sorts of “Everyday rhetorical devices used to spin perceptions” for …. well, forever. But its always been informal.
This video provides a nice summary of “how 8 commonly used words manipulate your perception of events“
Neat.
Thanks.
Is ‘Just’ on your list? “I just” predates a true but obfuscatory statement of what someone did wrong. “You just” predates a completely ignorant statement that totally elides over all the difficulty and complexity of the situation (E.g., “You just install this linux distribution on your raspberiPi and you’ll get component out.” “You just talk to her with confidence.” “You just eat less.”)
that’s good, but i think its more of a subtle qualifier than proper misdirection. (at least in the examples you give)
but i think it could certainly be applied in ways that mislead. sort of like the first example in the above vid, “Refused” – implies a person’s choice is contrary to some obvious better-idea – “Just” could be thrown in to make obviously complex issues wrongly seem stupidly simple,
e.g. “We just need to teach men not to rape”
As tho ‘problem x’ has some simple solution when it obviously doesn’t.
“New York Gov. Cuomo grants 35,000 paroled felons right to vote; GOP sees ‘power grab’
In an executive order signed Wednesday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo granted some 35,000 paroled felons the right to vote. The move by the second-term Democrat came after state Republicans blocked a bill in the state Senate.
“I’m unwilling to take no for an answer,” Cuomo said at the annual convention of the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network in New York City. “I’m going to make it law by executive order.”
The new directive includes New York in a list of 14 states and the District of Columbia that allow felons to vote in elections after serving their sentence.
“It is unconscionable to deny voting rights to New Yorkers who have paid their debt and have re-entered society,” Cuomo said in a statement.””
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/19/new-york-gov-cuomo-grants-35000-paroled-felons-right-to-vote-gop-sees-power-grab.html
I don’t think the law gives the governer that authority.
“Other rights, they can go fuck themselves.”
At this point I wouldn’t be surprised to see the governor appoint his horse State Senator by executive order. I’ve been shocked by all the things he can apparently do, and wonder if the progs are right to blame him for anything he fails to do via magic wand.
In any case, hush. I wish Cuomo as much prog showboating success as possible with things like this that are good to only slightly bad. I don’t want him to sweat about Sarah Jessica Parker or whoever it is breathing down his neck, and do a bunch of things that actually hurt the state. I want that motherfucker good and cocky.
Didn’t Hitler do that, too?
Since he didn’t give them any of their rights back except for voting, then yes I agree. This was just vote buying by a different name.
He only gave them the right to vote one way.
“I’m going to make it law by executive order.”
Someone doesn’t understand what words mean…
His big goal is to make “the Empire State” a literal descriptor.
In his defense, in legal jargon you call it “law” whether it is case, regulation, or statute, right? (Or custom, as it applies.) It’s not an inherently legislative concept.
Doesn’t go to whether or not the man can actually do what he wants, of course. Just pushing up my nerd glasses.
Voting rights and gun rights should be coincident. If a citizen is responsible enough to vote, they are responsible enough to purchase a firearm. If a felon is too irresponsible to purchase a firearm, they are too irresponsible to vote. Has Mr. Cuomo restored these felons’ gun rights as well, or is this not an issue of rights at all but rather a crass play for votes? I think I know the answer.
Their gun rights were restored too, right?
Should have refreshed before posting. Thinking about it, yes their gun rights are restored to the same as other New Yorkers, which is absolutely no rights other than on the sufferenace of the state.
Kirk Schichter goes on a great rant about the fake Republican Never Trumpers.
Kurt.
Only Kurt Eichenwald prevents Schlichter from being the dumbest man named “Kurt” in the United States.
Russell may be one of the smartest.
I didn’t read that shit too well, but in general “Never Trumper” is not a helpful term of course. They can range from the Ben Shapiro type, who does a better job defending Trump from bullshit attacks than the people who actually support him, to the House Conservatives who do tricks for MSNBC and so forth.
What classic GOP policies has Trump tried to enact? The only one I can think of was the tax cut, but that wasn’t coupled with any meaningful decrease in spending.
There’s the protectionism. Can’t get more classic than that.
That’s true, but that would have required Kurt to have once read a book. And we all know that reading is gay.
Those two are just friends! They’re reading a tablet and a paper book, both of which are acceptable. Kindles are fucking gay.
*lights Jesse signal*
The only one I can think of was the tax cut, but that wasn’t coupled with any meaningful decrease in spending.
Sounds like a classic GOP policy to me. Practically Reaganite.
Fair enough.
Anyone on anti-anxiety meds that’s had more trouble with pharmacies lately? Tried to refill my two scheduled meds (Klonopin and Temazepam) and I thought CVS was going to do a full body cavity search before they filled it.
If you don’t mind my asking, what is the process usually like vs “lately”?
Usually it hasn’t been any different than picking up any other prescription.
I didn’t know you could refill scheduled meds.
You can refill Schedule III and IV up to 6 months (original scrip + 5 refills).
The WOD drugs has lots of collateral damage. You being hassled about your meds is just one one tiny part of it.
I haven’t seen any issues getting Adderall prescriptions filled.
I know someone who used to get 3 months of lexapro at a time. Now they’ll only give her one month. Kind of a pain.
For an unscheduled, non-addictive drug? Fucking petty dictator bureaucrats.
Big brother just wants to make sure you check in every month. Embrace him!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/04/17/the-most-important-equation-in-the-universe/#79c54e60da5c
I’d still go with Maxwell’s Equations for overall impact on our everyday lives.
The anti-life equation. For when Darkseid comes to kill us all.
Absolutely Maxwell’s Equations are more important. Without Maxwell, there would have been no Einstein, and probably it would have taken decades longer to get to modern physics in general. Maxwell kicked off the modern era.
The expansion coefficient of the universe is not something that will affect any of our lives.
There’s a Poincare joke in there somewhere, surrendering to the Germans.
“What about the simplest equation of all: one plus one?”
–the writers of Star Trek: Voyager (“Virtuoso,” January 26, 2000)
Hiw old were ya’ll when the music you like started being played more and more on the classic rock stations. Sheesh, I’m only 30 and the classic rock station has more of the stuff I like than any other.
A lot of the stuff the “greatest hits of all time” [sic] station around here plays is stuff I don’t care for. I reach for the presets any time an Eagles song comes on.
I listen to the classical music station a lot, but they’re having one of their beg-a-thons right now.
You will know you are really old when you hear a muzak version of your favorite song play in the supermarket.
Stop reminding me how old I am, Tonio!
Delta plays muzak version of Sweet Child O’ Mine…
Axl has a tremendous vocal range.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/10848713/Axl-Rose-has-a-larger-vocal-range-than-Mariah-Carey.html
Don’t feel old, some supermarkets are hip and play new stuff muzak. Six years ago I noticed a new Australian band on the radio… in Australia. They never really made it in the US, though once I attended their performance in Boston. Then about two years ago I heard their best hit in a grocery store in San Diego.
I felt old when I went to a Billy Idol concert at Wolftrap. http://www.wolftrap.org
I have records older than you.
My new music is going on 20 years old now.
Just wait until what used to be played on classic rock stations starts to get played on the oldies station.
That has already happened.
You know it’s almost over when Huey Lewis is on the classic channel now.
mental sandbox time
A thought came to me today: a limited war can only achieve limited objectives.
It’s a simple idea with some profound implications. What I mean is, if a nation decides in advance that there are various things it won’t do in war, that sets a limit on what kind of wars it can win.
It seems that absent a massive attack by a foreign military, the US will not use nuclear weapons or engage with large numbers of ground troops.
For all the small wars, our bag of tricks is limited to:
-propping up a friendly govt or insurgent group with money, weapons, training, and small numbers of troops
-overthrowing a hostile govt by giving money, weapons, and training to the opposition together with limited air strikes
-air strikes and cruise missile attacks on countries with weak militaries
-direct action raids by SF units
If that’s as far as the US is willing to go against an enemy that poses little to no threat to the US, there is not much hope of defeating an insurgency.
Most insurgencies succeed if they are not suppressed quickly with overwhelming force, which most govts are unable or unwilling to mobilize.
TE Lawrence calculated the Turks would need 600k troops to defend their territory in Arabia. They only had 100k.
On a side note, even successful insurgencies often lead to a bad result. Having large numbers of people accustomed to violence and theft makes it hard to restore law and order. Spain went through 50 years of chaos after the guerrilla war against Napoleon.
This wisdom brought to you by Tautology Theater.
Is there an example of a limited war that achieved the unconditional surrender of one side?
Total wars end with unconditional surrenders. The rest end with armistices.
In my view, anything less than an unconditional surrender is a limited objective.
That’s Swiss’s point about tautology.
Limited war = limited objective.
Unlimited war = unlimited objective (i.e. total surrender)
A limited war could only ever be used towards an unlimited objective if the attacked party were pussies and the attacking party knew it.
OK, let’s see if I can find an example for each combo
LW and LO: US in Desert Storm
LW and UO: UK in UK-Zanzibar war
UW and LO: The Japanese in the last stages of WW2
UW and UO: US in WW2
The point I was trying to get at is the US appears to have an unlimited objective in Afghanistan- the unconditional surrender of the Taliban. Trump said the official objective is “an honorable and enduring outcome”.
Or according to this army Col in 2010:
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Thinking historically, the war in Afghanistan is stalemated somewhat like Vietnam was after the Tet Offensive [in 1968]. We can stay there for a long time. Certainly the Taliban, our chief enemy there, doesn’t have the capacity to throw us out. We can accomplish President Obama’s political objectives to disrupt, disable, dismantle al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. But for us to accomplish our military’s operational objectives–which is nation-building, euphemistically called counterinsurgency–that’s not going to take eighteen months. And I don’t think it’s going to take only three to four years. It will be a generational effort. History shows the kind of commitment that’s required to accomplish that kind of objective. The problem in terms of strategy is that we have a mismatch. The president’s political objectives are actually quite limited, but his military has offered up really a maximalist operational method of nation-building to achieve those very limited political objectives. That’s the stalemated nature of the situation in Afghanistan.
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I blame the Catalan separatists.
The war may be limited and our goals are, therefore limited, however, Pvt your contribution has no limit. Sorry.
Ennui you say?
Ennui or Innuendo? The question that has caused more fights between Italian optometrists and proctologists than any other.
Get thee to a punnery!
Something only people who were once teenage males can appreciate.
https://local.theonion.com/mom-makes-sure-everyone-has-masturbated-before-long-car-1825386152
I eagerly await the pornhub skit starring Jody West.
I cant keep up today. Just finished making some delicious dirty rice and now this scary white boy (who also happens to be a fanatical believer in the NAP) has to go milk a goat. No, thats not a euphemism. An actual goat.
Maybe the scary part about you was watching you drink that fresh glass of goat “milk” that you just milked from that prize billy you own? (that and those Popeye-like forearms on you).
And now the goat follows him everywhere?
https://imgur.com/kxkdYCb
That’s dinner from last night, there’s quite a bit left for when I get home tonight. I’m looking forward to it.
Also, dirty rice is great and I never much cared for goat milk.
British man gets life sentence for deliberately infecting men with HIV
Christ, what an asshole.
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Rowe’s attorney asked Judge Christine Henson QC for a lighter sentence so as not to stigmatize HIV infection.
“This is not a terminal illness,” the attorney said, according to the Telegraph. “Those who live with HIV have good and high life expectancies.”
She added: “There really is a need for therapy and not incarceration.”
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[head desk]
It’s attempted murder. I have no sympathy for the bug-spreading buggerer.
If they can prove it was deliberate, he deserves it. That’s sick.
WTF?
It’s a dirty job, but somebody has to do it.
A dirty Sanchez job.
Sounds like Columbine Shooter syndrome: guy pissed off at his own lot so he rebels against the World by exacting indiscriminate vengeance.
That, or maybe he’s just an asshole.
3 in National Guard disciplined over use of dinosaur hand puppet during oath ceremony
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Army Maj. Gen. Terry Haston announced the disciplinary measures in a Facebook post and criticized the airmen.
“I am absolutely embarrassed that a senior officer and a senior NCO took such liberties with a time-honored military tradition,” Haston wrote. “Not taking this oath solemnly and with the utmost respect is firmly against the traditions and sanctity of our military family and will not be tolerated.”
“The Tennessee National Guard leadership as a whole is appalled by the actions of these individuals which do not represent our nation’s service members nor the Airmen and Soldiers of Tennessee,” he added.
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I’m thinking of a quote from Stripes involving Francis.
An America in which this puppet story does not dominate the 24-hour news cycle is not an America I want to live in. I damn well hope this is all over the place.
I love how serious the NCO looks!
Are you running a “Best of The Morning Links”?
Forgive me, I wasn’t around to read them.
Comment first, read articles later. Stop acting like the other way around is how it’s done, contributors. Saying it over and over again enough times does not make it so.
*braces for cowbutt*
I’ve heard all kinds of crazy stories about reenlistment ceremonies: in a gas chamber, in free fall, underwater…
This guy did it underwater at the wreck of the USS Arizona:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56voxid47xA
But publicly announcing disciplinary actions on Facebook is the height of professionalism. SMH.
I am so glad I got out. The sock puppet isn’t any worse than these:
https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/what-is-the-most-unusual-reenlistment-ceremony-you-have-seen
And that’s just tip of the iceberg.
How ’bout we dispense with populism and return to a Constitutional Republic founded on principles of individual liberty?
https://www.hoover.org/research/dueling-populisms
Oh right. That’s lame and too complicated for the great unwashed masses to understand. And the authors were white slave owners or something.
Fuck the unwashed masses, because I went to college. And fuck reading because both HM and I know that shit is gay, so I always just look at the pictures. It would appear from my elite experience that the two types are prep populism (possibly prep male cheerleader populism, given the megaphone) and fratboy jock populism. The choice is going to involve dueling values and inevitable tradeoffs in social benefit because the latter pull more sloots but the former probably higher quality, especially post graduation. I’d be interested in hearing everyone’s thoughts.
I always just look at the pictures
So I hear you saying that Q hasn’t posted enough pictures today to sate your appetite.
There’s an intersection point between quantity and quality of pussy that you should always strive to achieve.
https://www.andrewheiss.com/files/images/supply-demand-ggplot/supply-demand-intersection-simple-1.png
Of course it’s also dependent on environment and social circumstance, as well as your personal level of desperation. Freshman year you may be happy to plow through a legion of mopeds out of pure joy of being off the leash. However, as time goes on, you should really start considering the cost-benefit tradeoff and try to find the intersection.
I was concerned that no one would address the short versus long term distinction that I took pains to highlight. I like that this is receiving attention right off the bat.
Well, VDH is advocating for the same type of Classical agrarian populism that Jefferson asserted was the most conducive to liberty. Of course, Agrarianism has always been bullshit and inevitably leads to people being hacked to death with farming implements.
+1 White South African farming family
I would have thought -1 would be more accurate.
While Jefferson obviously overlaps the Industrial Revolution somewhat, he was very much a 18th century more than the 19th. I think that Jeffersonian agrarianism, which to me is mostly the praise of the yeoman farmer, the lasting importance of that is the yeoman part, not the farmer part. I think Jefferson would absolutely recognize the value of the yeoman food truck owner, the yeoman computer programmer.
I do think a libertarian polity looks a lot more like a Jeffersonian vision of the country, with small and medium sized businesses free of the crushing burdens of regulation and taxation. Obviously there are economies of scale, and certain things will always be manufactured by giant corporations (Good luck building jumbo jets in a shade tree shop), but I do think that you’d see, in the absence of Leviathan, a lot more small businesses. SLD applies, as always, but it’s certainly not a healthy development to have more and more people working for giant conglomerates, with SJW HR executives parsing every water cooler conversation for Hate Thoughts.
Jefferson still had a fixation with the notion that all wealth was ultimately derived from the land. He had no use for Hamilton and the Speculative Class.
“Jefferson still had a fixation with the notion that all wealth was ultimately derived from the land. ”
Eh, he’s not wrong about that. You can’t eat credit default swaps.
“He had no use for Hamilton and the Speculative Class.”
Well I think it’s more accurate to say that he believed that if they were allowed to set the agenda for the nation, that inevitably the result would be taxation, centralized authority, and the destruction of sound money and limited government.
and was he wrong? Nope
http://imgur.com/gF89YvS
I don’t care about the enviroment.
Or your wallet, I guess.
Hrmm… is this similar enough to be a ‘drat you timing’ incident?
Great minds and all that.
GAIA KILLER
It does eventually hit you in the wallet, though.
Not really. That’s the dash of the welding truck at my work. It’s a F-350 with a welding shop built onto the back of it. It never leaves the plant boundaries and idles a great deal of the time. I find it funny to see a a mpg that low. The truck is also 5 years old and only has 2500 miles on it. It has a ton of hours on the engine though.
68F out. This is your A/C shack, isn’t it?
At times, yes.
The vehicle is in Park. The fact that you are getting anything above 0 mpg is worrisome. I’d advise you not let your vehicle out of your sight or it might sneak off.
1) Lach is it OK if we talk?
2. Do you think that that truck is really causing climate change?
3. *waits, taps foot impatiently*
4. I heard you say that you think that it is funny to rape Mother Gaia. I know some people think juvenile humor like that is funny, but you are bigger than that
5. My parents had a truck that spewed green house gasses into the atmosphere too. It seemed funny to them too until the day they left my sister in that truck while they ran into the store. The increased temps and sunlight caused my sister to have a heat stroke and she has never been the same. Now it doesn’t seem so funny.
6. Scientists have published a lot of studies showing trucks have caused global temps to rise 20 degrees
7. Would you like to know more?
8. Thank you for talking with me today
9. It would be so great if you joined me in slashing the tires on at least 3 polluting SUV’s in the next week.
Very good Jimbo. I approve.
Ugandan president trial balloons banning oral sex, declares “The mouth is for eating.”
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/04/18/ugandan-president-seeks-ban-oral-sex-mouth-eating/
Note to self: Cancel travel plans to Uganda.
Idi Amin was the worst Ugandan dictator.
Yoweri Museveni: Hold my beer.
As if Africa didn’t ‘suck’ (no pun intended) badly enough already.
I was invited to attend a 7-year review for my university’s math department along with a half a dozen other undergrad students. Everything about the meeting began to feel political to me. They discussed outreach to minority students and hiring more female professors. The other thing that bothered me was the HTC (Honors Tuturial College) students complaining about the grading policy for courses that have a mix of undergrad and grad students. They complained the courses we’re too hard and wanted to a lower standard for grading undergrad students. I stated that I prefer having the same grading scale as the grad students and that it helps set expectations for graduate courses. I was told by the staff that I was wrong, that undergrad courses should have different objectives and lower grading standards. So the problem is grade inflation. I feel like many students in this position graduated high school as valedictorian or near the top of their class and they expect to get straight A’s but instead end up with some B’s and the occasional C. Its takes a lot more effert to be at the top of your class in college than high school.
Feel free to go get a job at a less rigorous institution, I want high standards.
I read that STEM majors tend to graduate with the lowest gpa compared to other majors while education majors have the highest gpa while the trend is reversed in highschool.
Sounds about right.
That is true. Amazing notion that when your courses involve a review of shit you should have learned over the last 12 years, keeping a calendar, and dealing with brats that sass you, a marginal high school student graduates from the university with honors. Who’d a thunk it?
I wasn’t valedictorian, but that was me my freshman year. I cruised through HS and got good grades, so I figured I’d be able to cruise through college the same way.
I was quickly disabused of that notion.
^THIS^
^^THIS THIS ALSO
In grad school you go back to all A’s, rather famously–grades are simply a routine administrative matter rather than an active performance indicator–and that became my “native culture” so it’s hard for me to get worked up about grade inflation. I care more about curriculum and research, and figure grades are a lost cause. I do hate spoiled undergrads coming up to you though complaining about their grades though. The sense of entitlement on some of these little brats has to be seen to be believed.
It’s an interesting study of human behavior when a college freshman class entirely made up of kids in the top ten percent at their high school encounters the reality that 90 percent of them cannot remain in the top ten percent.
holy correctamundo
something very odd to me as scholarship student @ my not-even A+-tier university was that most of the kids around me were actually failing/struggling and having serious problems with recognizing that “stuff gets harder after high school”
example – on my freshman floor, about half flunked out the first year.
which i would bet you never happens today. but even then, in the early 1990s, people ranted about “grade inflation” and the desperation of institutions to keep students in the fold regardless of merit.
but the kids still got kicked out, because they couldn’t even deal with the lowered, basic, bare-minimum standards.
It was shocking. I knew a dozen kids who took a year off to recoup and come back to get their shit together.
I think the big shock for many was that “what got you A’s in podunkville doesn’t fly when you get mixed with kids from all over the US”
Automatic F for misuse of apostrophes. Also: release the hounds.
“we’re too hard”
If it’s lasted longer than 4 hours, call your doctor.
Was there anything in there about math?
I took a grad course as an undergrad as an elective. Tough class, didn’t get the grade I had hoped for but the mental challenge it was for me was invaluable. Probably kept me out of the top 10 in my class, but I didn’t care about that. I took the course because I thought it would be helpful for my future and it certainly was.
Maybe 30 years ago the majority of most people went to college because they wanted to learn with the degree being a nice reward – and the university operated with that goal. Now the majority goes because they want the degree and don’t care that much about the learning – and the university operates with that goal.
Maybe 30 years ago the majority of most people went to college because they wanted to learn with the degree being a nice reward – and the university operated with that goal. Now the majority goes because they want the degree and don’t care that much about the learning – and the university operates with that goal.
I wonder how required general education courses might have affected this. If you are interested in biology, then you would be be much more interested in a degree that’s 100% biology and related courses rather than 40% Stem 60% Gen Ed. Same with forcing Lib Arts to take science courses. That doesn’t mean you can’t educate yourself in other areas outside your field, but forced immersion in often inane introductory courses doesn’t really encourage a love of learning for that subject.
I’ve found that I really enjoy the courses in my Master’s program and all are focused on the discipline being pursued. What a difference it would make for Bachelor’s to be designed the same way.
When I went to electricity school, every one of my classes was on subject material relevant to the trade I was learning.
That’s the way to do it.
I wonder if any of this ever occurs to the people who incessantly complain about student dept.
*debt
Today is the anniversary of:
1. The first shots at Lexington and Concord (1775)
2. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943)
3. The government killing 76 people, including 18 children, at the Branch Davidian complex in Waco (1993)
4. The OKC bombing (1995)
Unfortunately anniversary #4 gets all the attention. Fuck you, McVeigh.
At least we can all get high tomorrow to forget right?
Revenge for Waco Bro, and someone named Hitler has a Birthday Tomorrow
Is it Alois’ birthday already?
#3 should be brought up everytime the government wants to ban something.
Nah. Them gun-toting maniacs deserved it.
My go-to for that is Eric Garner, but my prog friends still laugh when I say that any law is punishable by death.
He is the perfect example. Selling untaxed product can literally carry a death sentence.
And why come you hate religious minorities?
What is worse is that they didn’t kill him for breaking the law.
They had been called with a report about a disturbance; some people were fighting.
By the time the cops arrived on scene, the fight had ended, and the combatants had dispersed.
So the cops looked around and saw Mr Garner standing nearby. And they recognized him as someone they had arrested in the past. So they rousted him and demanded that he submit to a search of his person.
He wasn’t breaking the law. He was executed for being someone that had been arrested in the past.
Do you consider yourself well-read? Is knowledge of literary contributions something you think is worth while in its own right? Do you care about the world of ideas? Then THE BOOKS YOU LIKE PROBABLY SUCK, because those kinds of books are boring and slow and old and probably racist.
Shorter GQ: WE’RE TOO STOOPID TO UNDERSTAND ALL THESE WORDS
Besides, HM and Diego already established that reading is gay. So fuck that.
They start with Lonesome Dove and don’t mention Moby Dick? It’s safe to say that you can ignore these idiots. They are right about Gravity’s Rainbow, but blind squirrel…
If you read it, you twat, you’d know that it’s explicitly anti-racist.
11 is Correct, Shirer is a must read History Book
None of them are “correct”.
that they recommend “other good books” is fine…
…. but their suggestion that anything on that list isn’t worth reading for the non-reasons provided
(e.g. “I couldn’t get into it”
– “leaves me cold”
– “too long”
– “left me unmoved”
– “incredibly racist”)
is a bunch of horseshit. Its not even clear from the ‘critiques’ that anyone even fucking read the books. They sound like Junior High School “What I read This Summer” -reports.
“It was a good book, but it was also long, and I couldn’t get into it, and it had some racist parts, and some good parts too. All in all i think it is over-rated. I give The Holy Bible 3-out-of-5 stars”
How about you read them all? That having been said, many of the alternatives they give are worthy reads. Tristram Shandy is my favorite novel of all time.
Second time I heard of Tristan Shandy today. Apparently T Jefferson’s wife, Patty, was copying some poignant lines from Shandy on her death bed, stopped halfway through, and TJ finished the lines for her.
I’ve read nearly all of those books and I think the article’s writers are just being contrarian cunts for no reason other than to burnish some sort of “cooler than thou” bonafides. Leguin is a hack.
I did, Mr. Orange, but unlike you, I have also read Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson, you mendacious fuck.
Huck Finn isn’t racist, either. I don’t know whether Twain would laugh or cry at what we’ve become, in terms of our sophistication of thought. (Though obviously he’d have a lot else to celebrate.) And it’s one of the greatest books ever written.
Still gives me chills to this day. I can feel the tears forming a bit at the corners of my eyes like I was a little boy reading it for the first time. One of the greatest things ever written, by one of the greatest men ever to live.
Has this made the rounds yet?
Students criticize ‘Mikado’ play for ‘cultural appropriation’
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10797
Nevermind the guys who wrote are up there with Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain.
The Holy Bible is rated very highly by all the people who supposedly live by it but who in actuality have not read it. Those who have read it know there are some good parts, but overall it is certainly not the finest thing that man has ever produced. It is repetitive, self-contradictory, sententious, foolish, and even at times ill-intentioned.
Christian bashing is so edgy. Go fuck yourself GQ.
Just Christian?
I guess it depends on the source. If it was national review an article critical of the Koran would not be edgy. For any liberal publication, bashing the bible is not edgy. However, most of the media in this country has a liberal tilt and the Christian bashing gets tiresome. I’m not even a believer and it’s tiresome to me.
My point is-
For a bunch of leftists to come out and say, Hur-Dur Christians are stupid is a tired refrain that I’m sick of hearing.
From the cover that looks like the full Bible to me, Mr. Smartypants. You know, the one that includes the part where you killed God?
Fanfic is not canon.
LeGuin over Tolkien? Really?
I’ll agree with the Shirer over James.
LeGuin=good, Tolkien=Master of the craft
GQ is Teen Vogue for metrosexuals.
The Bible is awesome. Gulliver’s Travels sucks are you out of your damn motherfucking mind? I read that shit as a little boy with a minute-long attention span and loved it. Jonathan Swift is one of the true timeless treasures of the writing craft. Dracula really does suck; even the hardest core Bram Stoker nerds readily admit that. So does Robinson Crusoe, hard, and this list writer missed the opportunity. Also missed a bunch of classics from the 18th and 19th that can be debated quite fruitfully.
I don’t think Catcher in the Rye is a badly written book, but I am not sure that a narrative where a whiny, punchable rich little fuck walks around doing nothing is enough to sustain a novel length work. The narrator and sole real character earns nothing but contempt from everyone who reads the book, and I don’t see what else there is to the work. You can write a deliberately unsympathetic–even repulsive–protagonist, but usually not when there’s nothing else there. Maybe I’m not sophisticated enough. So good for the reviewer for including it.
In general, though, a very low-effort, low-quality list typical of today’s media shitpile. I’ve seen best/worst/overrated/underrated/contrarian/etc. book lists where I disagreed with everything on it but I felt provoked and enriched by reading it. This is not one of them!
Didn’t read it – I assume Harry Potter occupied the top 7 spots?
*ducks*
“I have an advanced case of ennui”
That turns you into an Eskimo, right?
RACIST!
Better than a Lute…….
Brett
https://youtu.be/IiYUzYozsAQ
Assperger.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/04/19/doctor-who-gave-asperger-syndrome-its-name-helped-nazis-kill-children-study-says.html
I like what this guy has to say:
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As the years went by, the explanation for what U.S. forces were doing in Afghanistan shifted from America’s raw national-security needs to vague notions of nation building and “bringing democracy.” Consequently, the inability to produce what public opinion considers tangible and achievable results sixteen years on has disappointed many.
Since our military intervention in 2001, we have focused on the quixotic goals of creating “a strong central government” and a “pluralistic society” in Afghanistan. We have tried accomplishing these goals by “holding free and fair” elections, “tackling corruption,” and building the “institutions of democracy.” If we fail to achieve these goals, we are presented with doomsday scenarios of “ungoverned spaces,” the Taliban “back in power,” and the establishment of new terrorists “safe havens.”
…
However, a closer look at the situation shows that much has actually been achieved. After the successful targeting of Taliban leaders, combined with a robust counterinsurgency campaign over the years, the group as a national movement has degenerated into several smaller, weaker and localized insurgencies—each with a different set of grievances and goals.
Even with today’s horrific attack in Kabul, the level of violence in Afghanistan is nowhere close to its peak in 2011–12. Al Qaeda, which once used Afghan territory with impunity, no longer enjoys a safe haven in Afghanistan from which to plan and launch terror attacks on a global scale. The threat posed to Afghanistan by the Islamic State isn’t even close to being in the same league as the Taliban, and pales in comparison to the terror group’s other affiliates in Syria, Libya and Yemen. No major terrorist attack originating from Afghanistan has been successful in the United States since 2001.
…
Today, according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction’s most recent quarterly report to Congress, the Taliban has “control or influence” in only eleven out of 407 districts across Afghanistan, equaling only 9 percent of the country’s population. By contrast, 66 percent of Afghanistan’s population live under the “control or influence” of the Afghan government. The remaining 25 percent of the population lives in “contested” areas.
After sixteen years of warfare, maybe we should come to terms with the fact that until there is a genuine political settlement between all warring parties and Pakistan stops providing succor to the Taliban, this might be as good as it’s going to get.
***
https://www.heritage.org/defense/commentary/what-does-america-consider-success-afghanistan
See: sunk cost.
GTFO already. 16 years is long enough.
And STFO
I read fool’s Errand the other night. Holy Christ do we not need to be in Afghanistan. I recommend it to anybody.
Is it Historical? or just our stupidity?
It gives a good history with some commentary on the stupidity. It details the whole war very well. It’s well cited too.
Churchill was there, The Story of the Malakand Field Force
Open source, great read, he was like 21 years old or something at the time he wrote it. Badass little Drunk IMHO
here’s the Book
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9404
I’ll check it out. thanks Yusef.
It is an excellent read. I took part in Horton’s live webinar about Afghanistan through Thad Russell’s online university. Good stuff.
That sounds enjoyable.
“…the inability to produce what public opinion considers tangible and achievable results sixteen years on has disappointed many.”
Because they expected different? Good lord, what morans. If only we had a long history of such actions there we would have been able to see that coming.
“Political settlement”. Yeah. As soon as we leave it will all to go shit. It will be ugly and we won’t like the results. That was true ten years ago, it’s true today and it will be true ten years from now.
I’m listening to this right now,
History of the United States (2nd edition) From the Teaching Company/Great courses, 78 lectures, even Better than DS9
I need to learn more about OUR history, so there you go
Jesus. You want to read a real history book, read Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States; that book’ll fucking knock you on your ass.
MATT DAAAAAAAMONNNNN
This series is really good, Yusef. The drug war series he does is also a kick in the nuts.
Bookmarked, Thanks Straff!
I’m also doing Gibbons’ Decline of the Roman Empire, a true Slog, but after Caesars Commentaries, more must be learned
Haven’t done that one. Mike Duncan’s History of Rome was my commute podcast last year. Too bad the identitarians went and made anyone studying Roman history a shitlord.
Gibbons is a work for specialists. It’s neither a contemporary (or later ancient) source nor a historiography up to current standards of rigor and accuracy. It’s a modern work, warped by a rather extreme bias and agenda, that’s been superceded by three centuries of progress since then. He’s a true giant, and every professional historian of the period has read him, but these are folks who can not only describe his perspective but those of a dozen other prominent authors through the ages as well.
There is no reason that a person in the process of introducing himself, acquiring a thorough as possible “base” of knowledge of what actually happened during a period, should feel the need to turn to the “classics” for such a purpose. Academia means progress over time, accumulating a bigger and bigger deposit of knowledge. Read authors up to current standards of scholarship and knowledge. 1980 is pretty damn old for anything anywhere near the introductory level in most any area.
Fuck off! the Commentaries are 2000 years old yet relevant, OTOH VDH’s history of the Peloppenisian wars is new but answers a lot of questions from a modern perspective, so…
Caesar was fucking there. He is a primary source. (I specifically addressed the distinction between him and Gibbon, a modern historian three centuries out of date, in my comment.) All the same, he is for example quite properly not taken to be the authority that he once was on every bit of hearsay and legend that he mentions about the backgrounds of the peoples he encountered. We take that shit in perspective–especially as more and more other sources of information (esp. archaeology) pile up.
Caesar is “relevant.” Gibbon is “relevant.” I never said otherwise, and in fact explicitly said no one could call himself an expert who didn’t know Gibbon. Please reread the claims I actually made.
Current standards seem to largely mean Frankfurt school marxist bs. Not sure this is superior scholarship
Nope! I thought someone would say that but there’s no need to go overboard with the “everything is fucked” conservative kulturkampf line. Believe me, no one is more pissed off and cynical about the present and future of academia than me. But this is absolutely untrue for the present anyway. Plenty of good scholarship being done in the right fields.
My girls gave me a lovely three volume set of that some years ago. Whenever I need a sllep aid I just grab one at random and start reading, making sure to hit every footnote. Works a charm!
Any Korean speakers on today? The youtube autogenerated english sub says “Hillary is a good fit” at 6:09
today I learned
Current Palestinian leader was a KGB spy
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/08/world/middleeast/mahmoud-abbas-israel-palestine-kgb.html?_r=0
His code name was “Mole”.
[head desk]
KGB Spies are like Tulpa, All are Tulpa
***
General Aleksandr Sakharovsky, who created Communist Romania’s intelligence structure and then rose to head up all of Soviet Russia’s foreign intelligence, often lectured me: “In today’s world, when nuclear arms have made military force obsolete, terrorism should become our main weapon.”
***
https://www.nationalreview.com/2006/08/russian-footprints-ion-mihai-pacepa/
The DC councilman who said (((we))) control the weather went to the Holocaust Museum today.
It did not go well. Among other problems, he left halfway through the tour. Also…
“Are they protecting her?”
He’s better than Ali G. Oh, he wasn’t fuckin’ around?
Proof that the Jews are keeping the black man down = Trayon White is only like 5′ tall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYQJ9U35v9Q
Holy shit even I think I’m taller than this guy. And they say the tall man has a huge advantage in politics! (Apparently not the non-ugly man though. Or woman.) Such an inspiration! Most solid one since Dollfuss.
Not that I’m comparing the two, of course! That would be grotesque; there’s a big difference needless to say. Dollfuss wasn’t an anti-Semite.
I have seen that before. Hold up evidence that someone’s beliefs dont align with reality and they turn away refusing to look at it.
Female mayor battles sumo rule allowing only men in the ring
“The rings where sumo is practised, known as dohyo, are seen as sacred places. Sumo is closely interlinked with the native Shinto faith, which considers women to be ritually unclean, meaning they are barred from stepping into the ring.”
Koike Yuriko?
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/Female-mayor-battles-sumo-rule-allowing-only-men-in-the-ring.
Weird. Not Koike. I doubt she’d wade so deeply into that given how conservative her base in Tokyo is.
No it wasn’t going to be Koike! Wait ten years for her to try to reinvent herself as Japan’s first SJW or some shit, in desperation.
Take the quote out from the end.
There are most certainly ancient customs around the world where men are not allowed in a “sacred performance space” or something. It’s all good in my book. The problematic part is how the male politicians give the speeches from the ring. And this is where a tiny spoonful of SJWing would be a good thing. Let the male politicians “boycott” the sport, as they would here; that would actually be a good thing. It’s what I’d do. Separate that political shit out; get the sumo association in the habit of thinking emphasizing its status as a private, not public, institution is the best way to protect its traditions; even out the political playing field for politicians of both sexes.
Just don’t let politicians make speeches from the dohyo seems the correct solution. Then again, do we really want to go through society with a fine tooth comb, filtering out any advantage a gender may have in campaigning? This one is easy to recognize as unfair, but how about other advantages that aren’t as obvious that favor female politicians?
Like gabbing at hair salons while under the dryer?
井戸端会議. “Idobatakaigi”. Meeting around the water well. Male pols certainly have the advantage today, but I’m worried about tipping the scales so far in favor of women that you end up with a situation like you have in American Universities. Solve these problems with more freedom and respect for traditions.
This seems like a pretty unique case. What are other examples of advantages that politicians of either sex would have? I can’t think of any. This is why people looking for shit have to come up with shit like saying Paul Ryan (but apparently not Pelosi) was sexist for not letting women wear sleeveless tops. Really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
(BTW I really wish some male Congressman had the balls to show up with those brave ladies in “solidarity” with the sleeves ripped off his shirt and suit jacket. But I think Traficant was the last one who’d have done it.)
You’re right that this is a unique case given quasi public status professional sumo enjoys. My solution would be separation of state and sumo. Then if a pol wants to speak there, I don’t care.
Oh certainly they should be free to. I think I see what you’re saying. Like you my wish for the “boycott” was fundamentally about its instrumental use in promoting said state-sumo separation, if that wasn’t clear.
No one is more outraged than me over the creeping sensibility that all-male spaces are somehow inherently sexist. I bitch about it constantly. (Yeah, I know, that’s certainly a short list of topics!) I can’t believe there isn’t more pushback, and I hold out some hope there will be.
Separation of state and ____________. Hard to find much that doesn’t fill in the blank.
Execution?
Execution? Sure. I’m not anti death penalty. I’m just anti the state doing it.
Civil death penalty, eh? Now that’s old school! +1 Merchant of Venice; I knew hanging out with a bunch of Jewish libertarians was going to have an effect on the rest of us.
I felt Shylock got screwed in that story.
You don’t support forced conversions? Saved his goddamned soul.
The man was owed a pound of flesh. Screw Antonio or whoever if he died.
You may be joking? He used the minutiae of legalize to his benefit and then got fucked by those who used the same tactic against him. Of course the punishment of Shylock was waaay over the line. That notwithstanding, he deserved what he (didn’t) get.
*legalese.
Yeah, I never got why he was supposed to be the bad guy. Clearly the least unsympathetic character in the whole play; everyone else was an asshole.
Since Shakespeare was firmly in the habit of putting his own twist on story templates his audience was already well familiar with, I always assumed as a boy that Shakespeare was taking the “evil moneygrubbing Jew play” template (e.g. The Jew of Malta) and using his prodigious talents to create a superior, highly sympathetic “villain” instead of the usual cartoon character. That his exposition on the theme, so to speak, was the “point” of the play. He made Shylock so human and sympathetic (esp. compared to the others) and subtle that I was sure that the play was not truly anti-Semitic at all. Not that I thought he bore an explicitly philo-Semitic agenda; more, again, like he was taking up the artistic challenge of making a “villain” of a familiar story who was not really one. A bit like Wicked or some shit, except actually good.
I have discovered in my adulthood no one really shares this analysis. But damn if it doesn’t seem plausible.
I have become more guarded about saying Merchant of Venice when asked for some of my favorite plays though.
Straffin, what “technicality” did Shylock use? And yeah, he’s hardly a good person. He’s clearly an “angry Jew,” and would not be as sympathetic–and the play successful–if Shakespeare didn’t do such a good job of making us feel his anger was understandable, of seeing things from his perspective. Can’t say the same for all the other assholes in that town.
The main problem with Shylock is that he lacked “mercy” and the religious angle is exploited by Shakespeare to show what could be seen as a lack of it in Judaism. Then the assholes at the end show a stunning lack of it when punishing the Jew. It really is a confusing ending.
For one, he doesn’t allow the repayment of the loan despite it not harming him financially at all. He uses the contract to get Antonio instead.
The core of truth to the “mercy” propaganda is that Jews (and Muslims) unlike Christians do not “love their enemy” or “turn the other cheek.” They do not believe that God loves wicked people, or that it is in any way virtuous to do so; it strikes them as perverse. It’s a very interesting difference between the two faiths, and one of the most profound.
Of course, Christians say “love” even the wickedest of men but then they turn around and treat innocent Jews for centuries as bad as the Jews ever did their most mortal enemies. Jews and nonhypocritical, self-critical Christians have pointed this out for centuries, and I felt like Shakespeare might have been doing his part here too. He does the pro forma condemnation of his villain’s Jew lack of “mercy,” but he ornaments it with his subtle twists. What did this asshole ever do to deserve Shylock’s mercy, from the Jewish perspective? And look at how the “merciful,” superior Christians treat Shylock when they regain the upper hand, like you say! I think in the form of the “evil Jew” condemnation it actually makes you take a sympathetic look at the Jewish perspective of mercy being something you earn by being a decent human being, especially when it is contrasted with the hypocrisy of the “good” Christians. I didn’t find it confusing; I quite liked it!
*in any way virtuous for them as men to do so…
That’s not so much a “technicality” on anywhere near the order of “flesh only not blood” (plus you can’t decline compensation, etc. etc.) as it is being a dick–to someone who was a dick to him, as it happens. Portia’s laughable nonsense on the other hand would get laughed out of any court i would run.
Sure, he doesn’t owe mercy to the Christians in Venice who have clearly been unfair to him and his house. Lack of mercy crosses over into malice when he has the opportunity to be made more than financially whole, yet decides instead to go for his enemy’s jugular. He is a well developed character and because of that we understand his motivations. That’s why we understand he didn’t deserve his pound of flesh. The ending can be seen as Shakespeare pointing out the hypocrisy of the Christians for not showing mercy, but going for vengeance themselves. Quite meta.
@DiegoF
If you haven’t seen it, I think you’d like the Merchant of Venice film from 2004. It has Al Pacino playing a more sympathetic take on Shylock, with Jeremy Irons as Antonio, and is pretty good. It also has casual boobs, as all the prostitutes (of which there are many in Venice) walk around topless all the time.
I will check that out! Looks good!
Also gratutious titties! Someone has been reading my comments! (*sniffle of joy*)
Just got home and skimmed over the thread.
That looks pretty good Lachowski.
My dirty rice:
Rice cooked in chicken stock, not water, salt, butter and basil.
1lb ground beef cooked together drained and seasoned with garlic, cayenne, paprika. 1/2 large sweet onion and one red bell pepper tossed in the meat after draining and cooked to soft.
1lb of Savoie’s seasoning mix (ground giblets)
Mix all together and toss in a hefty handful of fresh chopped green onion.
I could eat this every day.
And there’s another suthen recipe I have saved. The green onion I’d probably substitute with red, but that’s just a personal preference.
I think a coworker thinks I want to convert to Islam because I was chatting with him about his religion. He invited me to his mosque to learn more. Unfortunately he doesn’t know I’ll chat with anyone about any subject. *sigh*
Ask him to scientifically prove the voracity of the Koran. Fun for all.
I try not to hassle people in real life. I even tell telemarketers “No thank you” before I hang up on them.
You’re too nice. I like to mess with them.
My father was infamous for screwing with solicitors over the phone. He would have the secretary tell people he wasn’t available because he was out getting his AIDS treatment. This was in the early 90’s, mind you.
Other excuses were “out buying jewelry for his mistress”, “in Mexico for the latest cancer treatment”, and other socially unacceptable answers.
They’re just trying to make a living. An annoying living, but still.
WTF – were you raised Canadian or something?
Old southern manners. Probably about the same.
As opposed to me; I don’t chat with anybody about anything in real life.
It’s the only way to be safe.
Nuke it from orbit.
He’s a super nice guy and really smart. We were having a nice discussion of history and the influence of religion and war and BAM!, mosque invitation.
As a formerly religious person who used to do stuff like that, I would expect that he’s not likely to be offended by a simple, “no thanks”. If his faith is a big part of his life and brings him joy then offering to share it is a friendly thing to do. Don’t treat it any differently than if he invited you over to watch a football game.
To be honest, an invitation to a football game would give me the same level of social anxiety. I don’t mind interacting with people at work, but in the Wild I pretty much spend all my time with my wife.
It’s tempting for me to go that route. Only god or beast can live alone, however. As shitty as people can be, we miss out on some good shit when we go full hermit kingdom.
My wife is afraid if she dies I’ll go full hermit. I can’t say it’s not a possiblity.
That’s why I like bars. You can socialize on your own terms. Having fun? Order a another beer. Annoyed or bored? Go to another bar or go home. It’s not like planned social events where there is some expectation of how long you should stay. Just the fact that I’m trapped somewhere gives me anxiety.
I can relate. I couldn’t even bring myself to post on glibs until today. Point is, it’s not gonna be a big deal if you say no.
I’ll definitely decline if he ask me again. Thank you.
Oh yeah, welcome friend.
Jurassic Park taught me that dinosaurs are social creatures. I don’t understand your social aversion.
Also, I read all the Michael crieghtom books when I was in junior high. books > movie everytime.
How can you have any teetotal religious community in Florida? Aren’t all Floridian acts preceded by “Hold my beer?” I thought it was in the State Constitution?
He’s From Pakistan. Unfortunately the Florida Men are being displaced by loss of habitat.
Is it your office manager?
Fun fact: both him and his brother’s name is Mohammed.
Also, when he says Jesus Christ, he adds PBUH. I don’t know if that’s just him or all Muslims.
It’s common. Jesus was a prophet to them.
The only prophet pure and sanctified from birth. (Muhammad needed to be purified as a middle aged man. Anything you say about Muhammad and his life before he received the Message may be false, or even disrespectful, but it is not technically heresy. Not so Jesus.) Also the one who will come again at the end of the world.
It’s pretty unfortunate Christians, Jews and Muslims don’t see more of what they have in common versus what they don’t.
I think in the US there is very strong interfaith dialogue between the Abrahamic faiths. In the past, shortly after 9/11, I and others were invited to an interfaith Iftar and the local mosque where the read the part of the Koran that discussed when Mary found out she was pregnant (Mary is the only woman mentioned by name in the Koran). Also, when I attended Catholic school they taught us about the major Abrahamic faiths from Orthodox Christianity, to Islam, and Judaism. Not Protestantism, though. They don’t like to discuss that whole episode.
You should have submitted your homework assignment by nailing it to the door.
Maybe you can answer a vague question. My Muslim friend was asking about a feast in the time of Mohammed and the followers wanted a feast like Jesus had and so Mohammed spoke to god and they had the feast. He asked if that story was in the Christian Bible. Not being religious I had no idea.
Mohammed postdates the Bible by several centuries, so no.
Maybe I misunderstood the question. That doesn’t seem like a mistake he would make. I’ll ask him next time I see him.
The U.S. has not been remotely anti-Muslim at a single point in its history in its foreign or domestic policy; and in fact remember that there was shockingly little anti-Islamism in the immediate wake of 9/11. (This even though America had become gradually more familiar with Islamist attacks on itself for 22 years at that point.) Many people all around the country simply wanted to learn more. This is a credit to both our Muslims and our non-Muslims, btw. Many communities, even “red-America” communities, tended to report that they rather liked the wealthy, well-behaved, teetotalling conservative Republicans living in that house over there. It was only later, as the wars dragged on, that people started to get a bit uglier, to the extent that they are ugly now. I’d say the SJWs, in this country at least, are the worst friends the Muslims could have, with their nonsense. Muslims should go back to being normal hardworking Asian Republicans.
Does he say it as casually as the next guy nowadays, just being sure to add the pbuh at the end? I so want to hear “Jesus Fucking Christ (peace be fucking upon him)” at some point in my life.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard the man swear, but we do work in a professional setting, so who knows when he’s watching sports what he says. Lol
Mohammed is the John of Muslim families.
I used to work with a local guy, Irish Catholic, named John of course. Four years after I left the bar we both worked at, I ran into him at another neighborhood place. He tells me he’s gonna have a son. I ask him what he’s gonna name him. He looks at me like I’m a drooling idiot and says, “He’s our first. So, you know, John.” I have a few friends who are Italian Catholics, and apparently for them it’s either Peter or Paul, depending on where in Italy you’re originally from.
To the topic, if you’re comfortable with it, I think going to a Muslim service would be very enlightening. I know there are services every day, but isn’t the big day Saturday for Muslims?
He told me about a mosque that does an open night on Wednesday for non-Muslims. I am thinking about picking up a copy of the Koran just for personal enlightenment, not so much for religious reasons.
I’d be tempted to go. Aside from the highly biased shit I read online, I don’t know shit about Islam. I would be interested to hear the message from the horses mouth.
I would probably sneak in the back, but I work evenings.
Sam Harris and Majid Nawaz on Rogan’s podcast
this is probably worth a listen; its wide ranging and when Rogan has 2 guests, he tends to not spend too much time rambling and interrupting.
Does he address the scuffle with Ezra Klein? I listened to their debate and left thinking Ezra is one of the scuzziest people on the planet.
Yes, i’ve seen clips where he gets into it but i haven’t finished watching whole vid yet.
The Nawaz guy is interesting. Apparently he spent 5 years in an Egyptian jail because of his (peaceful) islamic activism prior to 9/11
*and it was his time in that jail, alongside most of Egypt’s jihadist element, that he developed his opinion that political-islamism is terrible
Dear Lord, my husband is drunk AF. He’s on the phone now slurring away after spending the afternoon at bars while the packer and mover SWAT team swooped in and started packing the mpls house.
I had to walk him carefully through the process 5 fucking times just now of getting to the kitchen table and placing key mortgage files in his car so the movers don’t pack them.
Sounds like he had a better afternoon than I did.
Sorry to hear that.
After I typed that comment he called me back and asked again what he’s supposed to do with the documents. I told him to take a fucking picture of them and text it to me. TOmorrow if he sobers up I’ll tell him again what to do with them.
It’s effing ridiculous.
Drunk spouses when you’re sober can be super annoying. Sorry, HE.
Too true! At least he’s in a good mood. Just totally incompetent right now.
Don’t wives think their husbands are always incompetent? 😉
When I go to far drinking, everything works out better if my wife waits until the next day to give me hell.
Same goes for me giving her hell when she over does it.
#advicefromadudewithaprettydecentmarriage
Yeah, I didn’t give him shit. It was just that I really needed him to do this tiny errand and he had to call me back 3 times and have me walk him through it because he’s so wasted. It was funny but also a bit annoying.
He has earned himself a nice hangover. That’s all the hell he needs 🙂
Husbands are sposed to be DAF. How else you ladies expect we put up with you all of the time?
Dude – you live a little too close to me to be calling nukes in on yourself.
LOLZ. You’ll never see it coming.
Sh!t I’ve learned in the past 2.5 weeks is kind of kick-ass awesome scary fun.
I think we all knew this was coming to America aka New Salem.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/04/19/time-get-rid-nfl-cheerleaders/
Bloody puritans!
Let’s just ban fun. Make it illegal and stuff. It’s the only way.
That really does seem to be their thinking.
Whoa! Like a few days ago you were all gossiping about a possible John sighting. Now there is an article written by John Sexton and nothing? John Sexton? Ranting about the NFL. No co.me t-shirt about John Sexton?
DiegoF, I agree with your summation of Merchant of Venice. I think it was Shakespeare’s attempt to highlight the mistreatment of the Jews as well as he could during the religious climate he lived in. The whole, if you prick me don’t I bleed scene was meant to “humanize” Jewish People.
Next, you guys will be telling me Othello’s penchant for white chicks is not problematic.
Oh no. I have very strong emotions on mixing the races…..HM is right behind me, isn’t he?
*cue 80’s laugh track*
I’m always behind you. When there was only one set of footprints in the sand, that’s when I jumped on your shoulders and rode you like a horse.
Kinky…
(*sniffle*) That was actually quite moving.
You mean like blacked(dot)com?
(Don’t bother going to the site, whatever you imagine, it’s probably worse)
Wasn’t that kind of Shakespeare’s thing? He’d write plots that could be appreciated on a superficial level but that also had more subtle messages for people who bothered (or knew) to look? I remember reading something a while back that posited that Shakespeare was a crypto-Catholic and a lot of his plays contain dialogue with symbolism that Catholics in the audience would get, and thus know him to be one of them.
Also worth remembering that he couldn’t just come out and say whatever he wanted. I’m not claiming to know either way, but if he wanted to delivery social commentary, it probably mostly had to be buried in the subtext.
His dad was a suspected Catholic IIRC. As you say there are many layers. When I say that death shouldn’t be the punishment for a loan default, I’m seeing it through modern eyes.
Funny you mention the death penalty for defaulting on a loan. Not too long ago I was talking to someone about the Brother Cadfael mysteries, and in one of them they make reference to someone being executed for stealing a horse, and how in Wales the penalties for theft were harsher than for killing someone. Horses and oxen in particular were extremely valuable, particularly in agrarian societies, because they were transportation and farm implement all in one. Somebody accidentally kills your fourth daughter and you’re understandably distraught, but life goes on. Someone kills your ox and now you can’t plow, you can’t pull a cart…your whole family’s in dire straits. And historically poverty of that nature was lethal.
Don’t lend people your insulin money.
But he needed to impress a chick!
I was going to mention this the other day when I talked about murder in Republican Rome (#26). These relative penalties have been quite common. There’s also a sort of desert intuition to it. A thief is a degenerate, a person whose deliberate disregard for social norms endangers the very fabric of the community. A murderer? Well, we do have a right to life, but everyone has a bad day sometimes.
We actually have a tiny vestige of this intuition around still, when you know where to look for it.
Similar to horse thieves in the “Wild West.” A man on foot in the western US could be in very bad trouble. In some situations, stealing a man’s horse was akin to killing him.
I like the evidence on the Catholic sympathy thing. He was definitely recusant stock.
Note that nobody has a reply to a single iota of that speech! And note how accurate and detailed Shakespeare was about the subtle points of Judaism–not only the ethical points I made but a number of halakhic points. He respected his subject, respected Judaism enough to do his fucking homework; enormous contrast with the ignorance of basic facts that was typical of the time for people writing on it. And note how over and over he contrasts Christians being far more cruel, unloving, inhuman to Shy than he is, with plenty of sympathetic visions for him. Note that Shakespeare could have made Antonio in particular some innocent Christian, who we’re horrified at having been made the scapegoat for Shy’s wrath even if we can sympathize on some level. Instead, bastard is right up there with the rest of them. And note that Shakespeare certainly knew how to create a less sympathetic villain–in Iago, Richard, etc. Even Timon of Athens, etc.; this guy is more like MacBeth or something, maybe not even.
I agree that reading it as purely anti Semitic is a mistake. For Shylock to get “paid” he has to kill a man. I don’t care that the trial was a farce, that they were meanies etc. Basically, it was nullification: not based on the law as it was written, but that following the law in this case would be a gross injustice.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t “planned” and “spontaneous” antonyms?
https://twitter.com/TAPAlerts/status/986775083971694592
archive tweets damn it! Anything good gets taken down before anyone can see it
Because this is newsworthy…
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/384067-comey-trump-says-putin-bragged-about-russia-having-the-most
Apparently SE Cupp’s segment w/ Andy Levy, Chucky Cooke, and Dave Smith is like the most-routinely-libertarianish segment on television since The Independents.
I’ve seen them referenced like a dozen times, but never retweeted by Welch or Reason.com etc.
example
https://twitter.com/UnfilteredSE/status/986737921314050049
on Guns in NYC.
*footnote: Christine Quinn was one of the former most-powerful city councilwomen ever for like a decade+. During my life in the city. She was always one of the most slimy, budget-enlarging, constituent-gladhanding people in the entire biz. Welch has squared off w/ her a few times as well over the years. She’s pretty much the classic, modern form of scumbag pol = a bureaucrat who manages to redirect hundreds of millions into state-graft while pretending to maintain a moral high-ground.
I’ve watched the rogan podcast fairly regularly. I give him a lot of credit for being open minded.
That is some good TV right there. She went full out “UnAmerican! Lives on the line everyday!” How dare you go after the mafia when most of them aren’t out cracking skulls or doing shakedowns of local businesses.
SE Cupp is blonde now? That’s just strange.
Dam this link session was a bitch to get caught pup on.
Andy Levy was the only red eye member that didn’t annoy me.
Here’s something else to get caught pup on.
Damm. She must work out.
She’s a pit bull alright; don’t let the pink fluffies fool you.
Actually now that I see it it may be actually an incredibly shitty rabbit costume not a poodle (though rabbits never get dyed pink like poodles sometimes do). Don’t give me grief; I halfass-googled the best I can. This was the best thing I could find, believe it or not, that didn’t look like something out of puppy Tarnsman of Gor.
I began to watch Red Eye during my senior year of high school. The show was how I first discovered Reason.
Damn, you got disillusioned quick, kid. (Unless you were in the military since then or otherwise took time off.) You said you were a college freshman, was it? What’s the story?
I graduate in two weeks. Double major in math and physics.
The best choice! (Apart from getting a math M.S. with your bachelor’s, if your school offers it.) What you doing afterwards?
Starting grad school in the fall for M.S. in math. Maybe a PhD afterwards. I think I want to get a job in finance or data science.
Ah. To be young. Though I’m not as old as most of these geezer. Going through a midlife crisis while being a Glib, now that is…I see something shiny!
Our age does not bode well for the future of libertarianism. Everyone has turned out to be way older than I thought when the details come out. And I think we’re actually whippersnappers compared to the people we left behind at TOS. That Sevo character is a World War II veteran apparently.
Webdom, Riven, Doom, Lachowsky and a few others here are young. I know for a fact we even have some Glibs who comment from time to time who are in their teens. They will carry on fighting the good fight.
Wait, Webdom is the same age as me!
So, you must be young, too!
We’ll go with that, because the other option isn’t as flattering for you.
Get off my lawn.
Up not pup
Has anyone been following the Prince estate battle. It looks like the lawyers having the best year since the smoking lawsuits.
I have. Part of it makes sense because they appear to play a central role dealing with his intellectual property. Maximizing it’s value is a real benefit to the heirs. The rest of it looks like they are padding their bills. It could get interesting if any heir seriously challenges their fees.
Has last night’s gossip been taken care of? I was busy.
No idea. I still don’t know who they were talking about. I was lurking at TOS since the early 2000’s and have been here for most of the run but I still don’t know who it might be.
it was CPRM. no doubt.
Also, since when has racist been the greatest mark against man. I can think of half a dozen other qualities that are worse than racist.
Oh well
modern political debate is modern political debate.
Wait, No Doubt was here?
23 years ago. Crap. That’s the stuff that makes me feel old these days.
My current truck (that I bought new) is half way through high school.
I love that song and it is the only one of theirs that I can stand.
Here, have a dose of the awesome song I constantly raged about not hearing whenever I had to hear Gwen’s shitty ass cover on the radio. (That’s actually the Israeli anthem at the beginning, effortlessly–and cleverly–integrated into the more obvious Fiddler theme.)
What I thought the song would be when you said Gwen doing a cover and wished they would play the original more often.
Oh God I do remember them doing that! I had blocked out the memory!
“Good” covers are hardly a topic with dew on it, but if we’re talking about an iconic GenX nostalgia magnet very distinctly past their peak when they did their cover, covering a song from the very early ’80s, I have always adored this one.
I’ve tried to talk my wife into going to to Karaoke Kan Shibuya so I can sing that song.
Always liked 10K maniacs era Natalie Merchant and the band generally. Another one that takes me back when I hear their songs.
Their most famous cover, I believe.
Probably dead threading, but this is a staple in my mellow tunes playlist. Natalie and Margo Timmons doing a Cowboy Junkies song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3TVgEpMyhI
lol
thank you for adding this to the pile of “1990s DJ shit” because that vox track was used to hell by everyone.
1990s dancehall was sort of ruined (imo) by early 2000s reggaeton. controversial, but just me feels.
There was a subthread above about it being Gojira, but no link to anything. I’m assuming that was a joke.
I may or may not have recommended this album in the past. I probably have.
I recently was reminded about it because I saw that Deadmau5 played it in full before his own DJ set.
its one of the best full-albums of crazy “DJ shit” from a time when DJ shit was actually very cross-genre and wide ranging and interesting.
Hive – Devious Methods
I think it came out in 1996.
If you threw it in a pile with DJ Shadow’s “Endtroducing”, DJ Krush “Meiso”, Aphex Twin’s “Come To Daddy” (or the RDJ album), μ-Ziq “Lunatic Harness“, and a bazillion things that were happening on Warp/Ninja Tune/Mo Wax/etc…. it was a very very good year for ‘that sort of thing’.
You may not like that sort of thing. But its a very interesting sort of thing. Modern electronic music producers look at this stuff the way 1960s rock guitar players looked at Alan Lomax recordings of delta blues. its “the older raw shit” that you base your own techniques off of.
I think Squarepusher’s, “Feed Me Weird Things” is probably an important one to also include in the “1996” list.
I like it. I came into my DJ phase well after most my age. My wife took me to a Sasha and Digweed show at the Rosevelt ball room for my 30th Birthday when we were dating.
It does remind me of Apex Twin with the abrupt beats.
I’ve been listening to a lot of noise lately due to recommendations from a friend of mine. I listen while I work and it’s great background.
Nurse with Wound
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SpfZcQqq098
I can never use anything I actually like as background. I need the pink noise. (Unless it’s repetitive labor; then you want as much brain distraction as possible!)
I have an office that sounds like the bowels of a clipper ship. It’s all creeks and growns.
Believe it or not it helps me concentrate.
Wait until the creaking & groaning stops. It’s annoying.
The building generator tests once a month, which causes the HVAC to cycle off and vents close. Eerily quiet for a few moments. Then the jet engine restarts and it back to normal.
I miss boilers and steam heating.
I have like 2 friend who are “noise” guys and their version of what i just posted above is like “DUDE THROBBING GRISTLE”
and then they start talking about Coil, and then some crazy japanese shit.
i don’t like pure noise. but i do like Brian Eno/ambient stuff.
e.g. this “music for airports” record? = strongly associated getting high and having sex with weird hippy chicks. Good times
Sounds like we have the same friends. I had the same conversation last time I was in Brooklyn.
I do like electronic music with actual melody as well.
These guys use old synths and junk punk percussion.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sIgFlbzz2ug
“electronic music with actual melody ”
Well, yeah. that was sort of the whole aphex twin / boards of canada / overlap
i think what you mean by “actual melody” is more like “pop harmony” by your example.
Aphex (and BoC) has lots of melody, but its more isolated from any chord progressions, and not like ‘sing songy’
I was not referring to your selections but my noisy ones.
I like what I’ve heard of Nurse with Wound, but it’s mostly when they come on my Whitehouse Pandora station. It might be time to listen to that station again.
The guy has been prolific and there are tens of albums. Some of it is pretty hard to jump into. I would try an album like Huffin Rag Blues.
Super Troopers 2 opens tomorrow.
I had the worst job interview today, mostly because it wasn’t a job interview. I literally just made eye contact with a guy at a booth at a jobs fair on campus. His line of work has nothing to do with what I’m studying. And he asked me about my background, which is zilch. And I started sweating and talking myself down, because I’m a social retard, despite the fact that I wasn’t interviewing for a job, I was just talking to some guy with a booth at a community college jobs fair, and only because I felt a little sorry for the fact that nobody was stopping at his table. The whole ordeal sent my fight or flight response fully into flight mode, and when I left I realized I had pit sweat running down my sleeves. I was twitching from embarrassment all fucking afternoon for the abysmal performance I gave.
And then I got a text from his assistant late in the evening, asking me to come in for an interview tomorrow. And now I have that Groucho Marx feeling about joining a company that would give that turd performance top billing.
Don’t feel bad. I’ve been at many job fairs recruiting. I recommend practicing as much as possible so you are ready and confident when the job is a good fit for you.
Recruiters don’t expect students to be polished at these things. Just be sure you can hold a conversation and show interest.
Next thing you know, they’re handing you a gold watch after thirty years of service.
In a world of shit, the anal leakage is king.
+1 Olestra. Gone too soon. For serious; I liked the stuff and its disadvantages were overblown.
“Olestra: You’re sitting in it!”
(slaps commodius in the face)
FOR FUCKS SAKE MAN, THEYRE ALL FOOLS
why does anyone suffer social intimidation? you’d think after 20 years of exposure to the average person, you’d realize they’re all idiots.
I’ve spent more time “chatting” with people on these boards and TOS than I have in real life for the last couple years, by a far stretch. I get nervous and feel put upon when confronted irl.
We need to orchestrate a NM GlibFest so you can practice talking to hostile and obnoxious people. By the time you get to a real job interview, it will be a piece of tres leches.
I remember reading somewhere about an experiment on this. They had people giving speeches and judged them according to audience acceptance of the speaker. They had some speakers fumble and dropping some of their cards on the way to the dais and others did the walk smooth as silk. Evidently, the ones who dropped the cards evoked a sympathetic feeling in the audience and if the speech was relatively good after the initial stumble, they received higher marks than the silky smooth ones.
That same thing was discussed in Eliot Aronson’s The Social Animal.
It may have been exactly the same thing (I read it 10+ years ago) but the example I remember is a speaker having higher approval ratings by an audience when he had a small coffee stain on his shirt. It reminds the audience that he’s a human just like them, not some perfect polished demigod.
Appropriate followup from last night’s late night post:
https://nypost.com/2018/04/19/woman-finds-naked-stranger-eating-cheetos-in-her-bathtub/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow
HT: iowahawkblog
“”woman finds naked stranger eating cheetos in her bathtub/””
1980s romantic comedy setup
Starring Robert Downey Jr.
“Less than Zero Calories” or “The Cheesy Pickup Artist”?
The Cheesy Poof Artist??
“a full tub of water and a plate of food along with half-eaten Cheetos belonging to the victim on the toilet next to the tub.”
She didn’t eat them all, so she wasn’t completely insane.
I’m out. Good night all
It certainly doesn’t help that there’s an unbelievable windstorm on tonight. We’ve got gales tearing through the canyon that make even this palatial house quiver.
Do you live in the House of Usher?
Where are you, Rt Hon Spittoon?
Hadn’t seen much of you since your move to SD. How’s the new job going?
It’s good, thanks! Crazy busy, as you correctly surmise from my absence on Glibs.
What I didn’t know is that this whole cadre of brilliant mutherf*ckers was secretly plotting to create a whole separate group of experts in our niche area (which does need to be done) and that they want me to manage it!!! It’s a bit nuts, to be honest, but I am up for it.
Seriously though, managing the most brilliant person I’ve ever met personally would be a bit of a challenge, but he does need a diplomat to filter him sometimes, and he knows it.
Other thing keeping me off Glibs a bunch is the crazy moving logistics. Busy busy.
How are you, other than Chafed? 😉
Spent 3hrs on facebook talking to my cousin. Linked her the Hat and Hair videos, talked about my love life, she gets me so well; then she talked about white privilege and I simply questioned her on it, END OF CONVERSATION!
Just thought I’d remind the Glibertariat that way back at the beginning of the year, I posted a kind of employment survey. It’s still available for additions or updates. It seems we have at least one someone doing nearly everything imaginable. It was really fun hearing about everyone’s gigs.
Go here to participate or refresh your memory.
It’s always linked in the front page sidebar.
OT: Reading recommendations for someone interested in Stoicism and similar philosophies?
Due to some unhappy events (nothing major; just normal shit that life throws at everyone sooner or later) the concepts of acknowledging, tolerating, and transcending your suffering have become much more resonant with me. I’ve had a slow realization over the last few years that you can’t control the universe, but you can control your reaction, and you shouldn’t expect to be in an exalted state of happiness for every day of your life (of course, I had heard all this before, but I never really took it to heart… It’s one of those situations where you know something, but you don’t really know it until something forces you to make use of it.)
I have a copy of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius which I will resume reading as soon as I finish this post and lay down in bed, but I’m looking for more books that go into greater depth about these general ideas, whether they’re Eastern or Western, ancient or modern.
Epictetus, of course.