Should the U.S. Trash Capitalism?
The more Americans talk about socialism, the more the word becomes drained of any functional meaning. Some blame for that belongs to Republicans, who have spent decades hurling socialist as an epithet at anything to the left of a Kiwanis Club meeting. But some also lies with Bernie Sanders, who brought the term roaring back to life with his presidential campaign in 2016. The trouble was that while the senator called himself a “democratic socialist,” his platform mostly consisted of expanding the welfare state and more strictly regulating big banks. Those goals were completely compatible with, well, capitalism.
That’s why, despite being a mushy, center-left type myself, I was excited to read The Socialist Manifesto. The book’s author, Bhaskar Sunkara, is the founding editor of Jacobin, a quarterly political magazine that has become the house organ of America’s far-left boomlet over the past decade. And the book’s tagline promises “the case for radical politics in an era of extreme inequality.” Here, I figured, was a work that would plant a flag on the irksome question of what socialism actually is, and mount an argument for why we need it.
What I got instead was a book that mostly dwells on how socialist movements have failed throughout history, either falling short of their goals or descending into nightmarish authoritarianism. Even Sweden, famous for its generous welfare state, is treated as a cautionary tale. “The best we can say about socialism in the twentieth century is that it was a false start,” Sunkara writes. Out of this dismal track record, Sunkara tries to draw lessons about how today’s radical leftists can do better, but the result is not always inspiring. A more fitting title might have been The Socialist Manifesto: Let’s Try to Get It Right This Time.
An article splitting the finest of hairs to show the supposed yawning difference between two stupid ideas.
Lawyers hired to investigate racist content in Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbooks could not definitively say whether Gov. Ralph Northam appeared in the infamous blackface and KKK picture in the 1984 edition.
But a report released Wednesday says two EVMS presidents, including current president Richard Homan, were told about the racist photo while Northam was running for political offices and decided not to make it public.
“We understand President Homan’s reasoning was EVMS should not become involved, or be seen to become involved, in an election as it is a public body and a public institution, and that EVMS did not not want there to be any suggestion that it had tried to influence Governor Northam in any respect by calling the photograph to his attention,” the document says.
The Norfolk medical school released the findings from Richmond law firm McGuire Woods in the form of a 36-page report.
In one case, the school’s alumni affairs director noticed the photo while preparing for a reunion and was “shocked” by it, the report says. EVMS officials decided not to put the 1984 yearbook on a table with other years’ editions. The McGuire Woods lawyers say they do not know when that occurred.
“The EVMS personnel who became aware of the photograph expressed surprise and disappointment in the photograph,” the report says.
Virginia is having a “Bitch set me up!” moment. Maybe Congress can have an investigation. Really grill the governor about every line in the yearbook on TV. After all, the past is nothing but a catalog of your crimes.
The text of Trump’s press conference after pimp-slapping Nancy and Chuck.
Highlights include:
Nearly 500 search warrants. Think of that, a search warrant. Did you ever see a search warrant before? Neither did I. This was over 500 search warrants.
Really? Donald Trump has never seen a search warrant before?
And of the 19 people that were heading up this investigation — or whatever you want to call it — with Bob Mueller, they were contributors to the Democrat Party, most of them, and to Hillary Clinton. They hated President Trump. They hated him with a passion. They went to her big party after the election that turned out to be a wake, not a party. It was a wake. And they were very angry.
Talking about himself in the third person past tense. And he’s just all over the place.
They would have loved to have said we colluded. They would have loved it. These people were out to get us, the Republican Party and President Trump. They were out to get us. This was a one-sided, horrible thing.
Talks about himself in the third person again. And is possibly employing the royal we.
They want to interview — Jerry Nadler, who’s been an enemy of mine for many years. He fought me in New York unsuccessfully, by the way. I’ve had great success against Jerry. But he was representing Manhattan, and he would fight me all the time on the West Side railroad yards many times, very unsuccessfully. He failed.
I know this isn’t what he means, but the idea of Donald and Nadler bare-knuckle fighting in a shadowy railyard is very pleasing to me. The scene is lit only by trash fires in barrels. A small group of classic hobos is passing a bottle back and forth. The combatants are both crying, snot running down their faces. Donald and Nadler and the hobos all take off running when the police drive up. So pleasing.
Cro-Mags. “We Gotta Know,” 1986
No comments on hairstyles from me. I got in trouble last time.
I feel like I’m in the right time line, but now I’m not so sure.
I’m feeling like it’s gonna disappear any minute man…
Nah, I just hit the wrong button. I thought I had set the posting time already. POST NOW and POST THEN really should be two separate buttons. Or even have a “Are sure you want to post this right now?” click through for people like me.
This might be one of those alternate universe/ timelines from Endgame they keep talking about.
Cro-Mags – there’s a name I haven’t heard of for a long time
Here’s another version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42pUGcb_Xnw
Hey SF, nice parsing of the Pres’s speech habits. You’d do well in cross- examining people. Just sayin’.
I avoid hearing any Trump speeches. Something about the way he talks really annoys me.
The last President I didn’t hate listening to was Reagan.
I enjoyed William F Buckley’s diction.
My late father-in-law, a lifelong New England/Manhattan resident had that identical manner of speech, and he was a contemporary of Buckley’s (he was born in 1924 IIRC). But he looked down on Buckley because he was “one of those pathetic Yalies”.
Trump is the John Madden of politics.
He’s sells video games to black yutes?
Maybe?
I’m a vicious, vicious editor. My boss won’t even let me look at something before she submits it anymore, because my red ink pisses her off.
Which, of course, make my own typo-ridden nonsense even more humiliating.
red ink
Excellent.
In a former life when I published I worked with professional editors. That was humbling to say the least.
Always better to edit something that isn’t your own work.
my red ink pisses her off
Do you write H&H vignettes in the margins?
>>classic hobos
versus the new hipster crusties
I got $5 on the hobos…harder living makes tougher bums.
I would rather step over a hobo on the sidewalk than a crusty any day.
+1 But I think we deal with the same hobos and crusty folk.
I would rather see Trump fight a whole bunch of children, like a dozen 9 year olds.
If it was Trump v. Nadler they would both be gasping for breath after two swings.
Is this gonna be one of them “Now you see it, now you don’t” lynx posts?
And our snark will be lost to outer space, picked up by space hobos, and sold on the intergalactic market. I hate that!
In that case I’m going to carefully explain cold fusion and how it can be accomplished with material available at any hardware store.
Is it two parts Plutonic Quarks, one part Cesium, and a bottle of water?
Did you find that formula by using a high tech simulator?
I also use it to test ad campaigns.
Damn it, now I want an apple
Dammit. All I have is regular quarks.
Did someone say Quark?
Quark
I can’t believe that lasted only 8 episodes.
You mean, as opposed to only 2 episodes?
Buck Henry’s best work.
Duct tape and WD40?
Always useful!
Reminds as a kid with a can of WD40 and cigarette lighter. Fun times.
For WD-40, I’m not even sure this is off-label usage.
Is there any “off-label” usage for WD-40 … at all?
Excellent point!
I’ll have to double-check when I get home, but I think uses involving human ingestion might be off-label.
It is good at removing labels…is that what you meant?
Beach house in St. Marks, FL + lots of mushrooms + splashing around in phosphorescent algae + can of WD40 employed to light whole bricks of bottle rockets = fun times indeed.
…the trails…the trails!
We would have flaming WD-40 fights in Boy Scouts.
We weren’t that smart.
We used to do that with engine starter fluid when we were in middle school. Set my forearm on fire once. Good times.
I used started fluid as a booster for my potato gun. The ether really gives it an extra kick.
extra kick
possibly true for organic solvents: the constituent with the lowest vapor pressure will dominate so that the mixture’s vapor pressure will not be much lower; volatile blends are, literally, a blast to work with
In that case I’m going to carefully explain cold fusion
Anyone else been watching Chernobyl? I’ve always felt nuclear energy got a bad rap, especially from the Green New Deal types who should be seeing it as their Climate Crisis™ solution. But wow, watching this miniseries makes a core event seem unbelievably frightening.
I love it so far. The ability of humans to ignore the evidence in front of their face and to only accept the evidence that support their worldview — we can’t explain how the reactor could explode so therefore it didn’t, ignore the debris on the ground.
I’m not worried about a core event because nobody would make a reactor like the Russians did back then. They didn’t build it within a containment vessel and apparently did everything they could to create a disaster.
“Vasily, there’s no containment vessel, our fuel rod quality is all over the place, half of our monitoring equipment doesn’t work, and the other half is being used to pull in porn off a satellite. The damn thing still won’t blow. I’d drain the coolant, if the pumps worked.”
The book’s author, Bhaskar Sunkara, is the founding editor of Jacobin, a quarterly political magazine that has become the house organ of America’s far-left boomlet over the past decade.
I read that as “mouth organ”.
Whoops.
“far left boomlet”? Is that why leftie sites are swirling around the bowl, or going away with nary a shed tear?
I don’t know. That people take AOC’s babytalk seriously indicates it is popular somewhere, just maybe not as a market for long-form journalism. I imagine the “far-left” sticks to Twitter since brainy-thinky can be hurty-hurty.
Blow up Twitter and the Great Moron Die-Off begins…
I think this tid-bit has a lot to do why people think what she says is worthy of anything but scorn and jokes.
FFS, do they have to mention global warming for EVERY social problem?
Does having the runs count as a social problem?
This is the beginning of Idiocracy. We missed the prophet’s signs.
Dis is wha resistunce looks liiiiiiiike.
Glenn Reynolds linked a Tyler Cowan article at Bloomberg early today that discussed how the populist right is actually the movement that’s on the rise around the world, while the American media has been trying to create a rising far left because that’s what they would prefer to see instead.
Trump vs. Nadler
I think the Donny Two-Scoops / Jerry “I Pander to Greenwich Village Idiots” Nadler fight should go like this.
Why do you have to pay someone for this? Just toss them in your garden.
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/05/22/new-washington-state-law-allows-human-composting/
I refuse to be recycled, just throw me in the trash.
Just give me to some necrophiliacs. WTH.
You want to go to Germany?
I won’t care.
I want to be scattered over Safeco field during a Mariners game. Also, I don’t want to be cremated first.
Bury me in a 6″ grave at the park, face down and nude with just my ass poking up above ground.
So people have somewhere to park their bikes.
At least you are waiting till you are dead to have that done to you unlike some other people. Me, I am donating everything to science. I am sure they wil keep my tool in a formaldehyde jar at the Smithsonian too.
Progtards aren’t going to put the mass graves in a park.
Because the government has never met a simple process it didn’t want to complicate.
“Are you kidding me?”. I bet wifey followed the cruiser to bail him out.
http://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/report-mississippi-lawmaker-punched-wife-in-face-over-sex
I know this isn’t what he means, but the idea of Donald and Nadler bare-knuckle fighting in a shadowy railyard is very pleasing to me. The scene is lit only by trash fires in barrels. A small group of classic hobos is passing a bottle back and forth. The combatants are both crying, snot running down their faces. Donald and Nadler and the hobos all take off running when the police drive up. So pleasing.
OMG…I think I have a semi.
Truck? Trailer? Chubby?
sweet Swiss chocolate?
Colon?
Sonic?
Nice!
Another
Donald Trump has never seen a search warrant before?
Before what, the Mueller investigation? Wouldn’t surprise me. Probably very few, if any, were served on his companies, and they were all handled by his staff and lawyers.
Maybe I’m thinking of subpeonas (or TV subpeonas.) But I still have doubts.
Subpoenas…a veritable avalanche. Search warrants…I think probably zero.
Wouldn’t his staff or lawyers show it to him?
There’s really no reason to.
Subpoenas are either for documents, in which case they are handled by staff, or they are for testimony, in which case a lawyer sits down with whoever was subpoenaed before they testify and they talk with the lawyer about what its about.
I’m sure he is told about them, but I really wouldn’t be surprised at all if no one had ever put one in front of his face.
It’s not like we are talking about bottles of Chardonay here people….
“His Staff” … A new H&H character?
Same with subpoenas, actually. I know we get a subpoena probably at least once a day. A far as I know, my CEO has never laid eyes on one. Hell, I don’t see most of them, myself.
Huh. Interesting.
The Norfolk medical school released the findings from Richmond law firm McGuire Woods in the form of a 36-page report.
It takes 36 pages to relate the idea that they have no idea who is in the photo. That must be some mighty fine lawyering, to say something in as many words as possible.
Billable hours, that’s the key.
They followed the Mueller probe protocol?
Lawyers hired to investigate racist content in Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbooks could not definitively say whether Gov. Ralph Northam appeared in the infamous blackface and KKK picture in the 1984 edition.
Oh, fer fux sake. Didn’t he admit it was him?
EVMS officials decided not to put the 1984 yearbook on a table with other years’ editions. The McGuire Woods lawyers say they do not know when that occurred.
Well, that’s pure bullshit. McGuire Woods pretty clearly got the message that their investigation damn sure better not find anything at all, as it was commissioned solely to make this issue go away.
And, gee, why would a publicly funded institution be completely uninterested in getting to the bottom of a scandal that occurred when the Dem governor was a student?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=scratching+chin+gif&t=ffnt&atb=v153-1&ia=images&iax=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2Fl0HlCdDS6xaCnm0oM%2Fgiphy.gif
He first said it was him, and then a day later denied it was him in the yearbook, but said he did wear blackface while dressing as Micheal Jackson.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/02/politics/northam-racist-yearbook-photo/index.html
The Lt. Gov. was the rapist. And the 3rd in line admitted to blackface.
And none of them resigned, because none of them was willing to do so on their own and the party couldn’t justify ousting one and not the others, and there was a Republican 4th in line so that was just out of the question.
And no one talks about it anymore. (D) forgives everything.
Gary Studds nods approvingly (from the grave).
The real reason the democrats turned a blind eye to this was that they are close to finishing their gerrymandering efforts for the state, and letting a republican take over, would destroy all that hard scheming and scamming.
He first said it was him, and then a day later denied it was him in the yearbook
R C Dean’s report on the investigation: “The governor’s initial reaction was to confirm that he was in blackface. His subsequent retraction lacks credibility. It seems highly unlikely, to say the least, that his initial reaction was wrong, as posing for and arranging for the photograph to be on his yearbook page would have been memorable, and even more memorably would have been seeing that picture on his yearbook page when it was published, if he had not arranged for it to be there.
There seems no reason for him to mistakenly admit it was him, but ample reason for him to subsequent deny it was him. Also confounding the governor’s denial is that nobody has suggested who the other person was wearing blackface in this picture might be. On balance, given the evidence before us, we believe the only reasonable conclusion is that the person in blackface is, in fact, the governor.”
Also bullshit:
In one case, the school’s alumni affairs director noticed the photo while preparing for a reunion and was “shocked” by it, the report says. EVMS officials decided not to put the 1984 yearbook on a table with other years’ editions. The McGuire Woods lawyers say they do not know when that occurred.
Oh, c’mon. It occurred while they were preparing for a reunion. No frickin’ way nobody knows which reunion it was, when the preparations were being done, hell, when the table was being set up.
Honest to Allah, if I got something like that from a law firm investigating something in my hospital (which they actually do not infrequently for malpractice cases), I’d fire their ass on the spot.
You’re assuming they want the truth and not a whitewash.
Not at all. I assume EVMS wanted a whitewash [snicker], and the law firm knew it and gave it to them.
Its just that the whitewash is so transparent.
Actually, they wanted a blackwash.
Can you imagine being paid to search through a HS yearbook? What a freaking nightmare.
It sounds horrible. You’d have to pay me. A lot.
Would $600 an hour cover it? Because that’s probably what was paid.
Thats probably what the firm was paid. I’m guessing the staff attorney they hired to do the actual searching was making $50/hr
I’m guessing the staff attorney they hired to do the actual searching was making $50/hr
I’m not current on law firm salaries, but even a new hire is probably making $150K/year. Something like this, you wouldn’t give to a wet-behind-the-ears newby. I would expect relatively little associate time on a high profile, politicized matter like this.
Similar to Wall St are we talking billable hours or working hours?
People’s eyes bug out at first year investment bankers’ compensation. If you divide it by hours worked it ain’t so hot…
(I know you know this BTW)
No idea what McGuire Woods partners make, but I’m guessing it ranges from $300K and up. So a partner’s minimum pay per hour worked is not less than $100/hour, and probably more ( a lot more, for the senior partners who would have most likely done this).
I’m not current on law firm salaries, but even a new hire is probably making $150K/year.
There’s been a recent glut of law school graduates, causing the salaries of low-level lawyers at all but the high-dollar firms to substantially decrease. Such that I know several people with law degrees who have sought employment outside the field in order to increase their paychecks.
yes: glut . . . and automation and LCC work
I counseled my son to pursue law school at night and focus on career path as measured by money (work now, grad school on the side). He prefers his notion of happiness which is largely academic and social, money not being that important. He’ll probably get away with it (tall with social skills), but I think he would be years ahead in earning on my plan, and night school would be fun enough.
I’m not a lawyer and am not privy to their incomes, but McGuireWoods is a heavy hitter in Virginia, probably the most prominent firm in the region. I’m sure R C is right – even their most junior associates are mostly likely very well compensated.
My wife is an attorney and on, they don’t make that kind of money unless they were at the top of a top school’s class. It took her years to get above 50k. I make more than her still, but she works a lot less.
McGuireWoods is a heavy hitter in Virginia
So the school hired a high-dollar law firm to shrug their shoulders for 36 pages. I’m thinking the alumni would be better off sending their donations elsewhere.
Isn’t the usual MO when hiring someone to “investigate” your PR problem?
What the…..?
No theme music. Here’s my contribution to Glibs for the day: http://i.imgur.com/9NgZEkb.jpg
Dude.
80s music
That cover sucks.
It also can’t be the original video, as Lexi Belle was born until 1987.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrUoDdS8lBc
Geez, I post scantily-clad women and people still bitch about it….
+1 unconfirmed sighting
I never knew about this site. Pretty cool.
https://media1.tenor.com/images/4f50c320b8056e49d77365e0452c9312/tenor.gif?itemid=12567487
You have to have a decent increase in size to have a “boomlet”. A bunch of new idiots yelling louder than the last departed idiots does not a “boomlet” make.
It took both hands to pull that one out of his ass, and he won’t shit right for a week.
That latter ruling, issued Monday by Judge Amit Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, found that the House Oversight Committee had a right to review Trump’s financial records. Mehta said that according “to the Oversight Committee, it believes that the requested records will aid its consideration of strengthening ethics and disclosure laws, as well as amending the penalties for violating such laws.” Mehta also pointed out that the committee believes Trump’s financial records will allow it to ensure that the president complies with anti-bribery guidelines outlined in the Constitution.
“It is simply not fathomable that a Constitution that grants Congress the power to remove a president for reasons including criminal behavior would deny Congress the power to investigate him for unlawful conduct – past or present – even without formally opening an impeachment inquiry,” Mehta noted. To that end, he ordered that Trump’s longstanding accounting firm, Mazars USA, produce documents it prepared for the Trump Organization going back to 2011.
Trump spent his whole life flying under the radar. Had anybody even heard of him prior to 2015?
The real giveaway that this is part of the partisan hit job is that the judge took the very, very unusual step of refusing to stay his decision pending appeal.
The other giveaway: investigate him for unlawful conduct – past or present . I believe its widely understood that a President can only be impeached and removed for conduct while in office. Congress has no valid reason to investigate past misconduct.
Yeah, the refusal to issue a stay shows it’s a complete crock of hyperpartisan horseshit.
Aka fishing expedition. In a sane world, Mehta would be impeached and removed for the absurd reasoning that Grand Inquisitors are legitimate part of the either the judicial or political world. Also, fuck the reasoning that demanding the private papers of people, even the president and particularly a specifically named person, for the purported purpose of considering legislation is anything other than an unreasonable search and seizure.
Congressional committees need to be curb stomped into the ground that they have little to any power over private citizens. Their power should be mostly limited to government employees performing their official duties. Private parties should be free to tell them to fuck off or pound sand as they wish, with impunity. The unequal seating heights and the bully abusive procedure has no place in a free country. Witness the Candace Owens hearing and the usual despicable conduct of what are supposed to be servants, and subservient, to ordinary citizens.
^^This^^
I work for an electric utility. In order to compile data I volunteered to let my employer use my the 10-year outage history of my house. I had to sign a release because that is the law. I really don’t see this Trump thing as being any different. If this stands, I can’t wait for a Biden presidency.
If this stands, I can’t wait for a Biden presidency.
Since the Dems have made the President’s children a suitable subject for investigation, Hunter Biden’s Chinese business dealings would be fair game, right?
Oh you guys expecting any consistency from the Deep State…
Congress has no valid reason to investigate past misconduct.
I agree with your sentiment and rationale, but, so far as it goes, there is no other thing one can investigate.
Clinton was investigated and impeached by Congress for misconduct in office. Not misconduct (of which there was plenty) before he took office.
Plenty of politicians commit misconduct in office. On occasion, some are even held accountable for it.
I was just being a semantic jerk.
You had already defined your terms nicely; present meaning in the latest, relative term.
Now I’m hoping Hillary wins in 2020 and gets fucked hard in the ass by a newly unfettered R House/Senate. Nah, who am I kidding? The stupid party would focus on something stupid.
Except the MSM and the judiciary will be against them…
deny Congress the power to investigate him for unlawful conduct – past or present
Didn’t we just get done with a blank-check investigation into exactly that?
Wrong results. Needs a do-over.
Ah, the old Washington Gubernatorial method.
That is some flimsy bullshit right there.
“We need his records so we can improve our own ethics laws.”
Pony up your own financial records then.
I have no idea how this is supposed to be constitutional, but here’s New York to the rescue.
Cocaine Mitch needs to file a request for the tax returns of Cuomo and his cronies, using exactly the same language as the House uses to justify their demands for Trump’s tax returns.
Note that is says “allows”, not “compels”.
I’d like the way their selective refusal to produce the returns sets up my legal challenge.
And who heads the Department of Taxation and Finance?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Department_of_Taxation_and_Finance
Wikipedia doesn’t make it clear if it a statewide office or an appointee of the Governor.
No idea, but I will take a wild stab and guess it’s a Democrat.
Either way that would be the case. Gee I can’t imagine a scenario where they don’t allow for the release of tax returns if a Republican Congress asks for it…
It is simply not fathomable that a Constitution that grants Congress the power to remove a president for reasons including criminal behavior would deny Congress the power to investigate him for unlawful conduct
What I fathom is that there is a prescription for the pretext to investigate in the first place.
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” – 4A
Well, I’ll be damned. There it is.
Coonman is now hilariously claiming the report that says “We have no idea who’s in the picture” vindicates him.
Jon Snow now claiming he’s innocent. “Who saw me do anything? Where’s the body? The murder weapon?”
Something I wondered about. How the hell did Snow end as a prisoner. And how did they know he stabbed her. All there was was maybe some blood. And a heck of a lot of melted metal and molten stone.
And why he wasn’t ran through as soon as they discovered her missing. Or at the least tortured.
You know he turned himself in, because he always does the right thing, regardless of the cost.
Like screwing redheads to “pretend” he had rejected his vows.
Mmmm… Rose Leslie…
Which brings it to the why wasn’t he run through as soon as he admitted it?
“Where’s the queen?”
“I stabbed her and…” *gurgles blood and dies*
“I’m looking for her too. Let me know if you find her. Meanwhile I think I’ll go hang out with my army.”
You bastards had to drag fucking Game of Thrones into my thread? A pox on ye.
What about the Dothraki?!?!!
“And is possibly employing the royal we.”
I read “us” as referring to the Republican Party.
They hated President Trump. They hated him with a passion.
If somebody else had said this about themselves, I would chalk it up to a nuance – candidate Trump, they held in contempt. But when he won the election, that’s when it turned into slavering, bug-eyed hatred. So they do hate President Trump, because he’s President.
But Donny Two-Scoops doesn’t strike me as really going for that kind of nuance.
Trump wouldn’t be wrong if he used “us” to refer to his supporters. They really hate the deplorables. That wasn’t the case during the previous Republican presidency.
according “to the Oversight Committee, it believes that the requested records will aid its consideration of strengthening ethics and disclosure laws, as well as amending the penalties for violating such laws.”
I’m sure the requests for records from the Clinton Foundation and Obama’s political PAC were just delayed in the mail. Because they obviously just want a measured analysis from 50,000 feet. It’s not partisan.
Donald Trump likes looking at the tits. He really does. No collusion, no obstruction. Witch hunt.
https://thechive.com/2019/02/14/burn-your-bra-and-join-the-revolution-35-photos-4/
18 is a bit skinny for my tastes, but still a hell yes.
6. I don’t care that she doesn’t have a head.
I wrote the latest ep before today, so I’m not a copy cat!
“Michael Avenatti is charged with defrauding Stormy Daniels by using ‘doctored document to divert $300,000 she was supposed to get from a book deal'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7059623/Stormy-Daniels-ex-attorney-Michael-Avenatti-facing-charges.html
CNN put that ass fungus on the air over a 120 times.
How is he not in jail, right now?
Isn’t he out on bail?
Fuck it, at this point I’d watch a movie based on him. Cast Steve Buscemi and have Elmore Leonard involved in the script, you’d probably make money and get some festivals to award you, particularly if it’s not too obvious who it is.
have Elmore Leonard involved in the script
I doubt he’d contribute much.
Whoops, back to the drawing board.
Actually, whom do you go to for decent crime drama dialogue these days, then? A good movie about slimy conman needs something more subtle than a Tarantino.
Michael Connelly?
George Pelecanos?
I read a wacky crime book by Dave Barry years ago which he said he was coached by Elmore Leonard.
Maybe you could get him, I don’t think he’s doing much these days, even his rock band with Stephen King seems to have disappeared.
“Big Trouble” was hilarious, and the movie adaptation was pretty good also, they stayed close to the novel and had some A-list actors (at the time) and shit, but it included a nuclear bomb on a commercial jet and was scheduled for release the week after 9/11, so it was memory holed. Poor Dave Barry, got rat fucked by the vagaries of fate and can’t even bitch about it because it would be historically insensitive.
Lou Reed could do the soundtrack.
Sound by Lou Reed, dialogue by Elmore Leonard. I’m still thinking more actual content would be produced by them than any of Obama’s Netflix deals.
With the prior two, there is at least a chance of some mostly-finished new work being found and published, so yes, it’s quite plausible.
“Denise Richards recalls the time ex-husband Charlie Sheen brought a hooker to Thanksgiving”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7058877/Denise-Richards-recalls-time-Charlie-Sheen-brought-hooker-Thanksgiving.html
Why? Was that wrong?
Yes. This link is supposed to be Demi Rose.
Now wait a minute. What’s wrong with sharing on Thanksgiving?
The subject came up after Denise mused to her best pal Patrick Muldoon during lunch: ‘My ex-husband’s aged me terribly I think,’
Looking at photos, eh, I’ve seen worse for Hollywood 48. “Mildly awful” is as far as I’d go.
Was it a potluck dinner? Maybe the email suggesting stuff to bring was ambiguously worded.
So, Charlie Sheen took a page out of old Joe Kennedy’s book.
Maybe he just wanted to be sure everyone got all the thighs and breasts that they wanted.
That hooker was still not as crazy as Denise.
Hoes gotta eat too.
Let’s talk about the judiciary. Isn’t it rather problematic that we are dependent of government appointees to determine what the law is and what our rights are? And where do they learn their legal theories?
And where do they learn their legal theories?
The bottom line is that many of them feel the whole notion of objective legal theory is nothing more than an excuse for the naked exercise of power. I’ve asked any number of times how they can justify rejecting the idea of judicial restraint in the field of social policy while considering it supreme in the realm of economic law. As far as I can tell, it’s simply a matter of they want certain ends and have no qualms about applying whatever doctrine will arrive at those ends. If that’s the case, there’s no sane way to justify judicial protection from the democratic process. If judges thought the judiciary was simply another political branch, any judge with an ounce of integrity would insist that all seats should be elected for fixed terms.
“Critical legal theory”
And why would the government appoint judges who follow legal theories that will reduce their power? And why would law schools support legal theories that reduce their power and influence?
Because they don’t want to be crucified in the public square?
So probably not anytime soon.
Even if you aren’t a car person, this might get your blood going. If you are a car guy, well, you’ll know what to do.
No Reserve: 1956 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing
This is art.
I’m so hard right now.
When I think of a No reserve 1956 car I think of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Norseman
Maybe the prices will drop when Ralph Lauren dies.
She’s a beaut
Bring a Trailer has moved quite upmarket. I’m not sure if that is good or bad, but it seems like they are making a good go of things.
They had a Lancia on Jay Leno’s Garage recently so they aren’t all high priced stuff.
They still have a huge variety. Just today I saw a gorgeous Lotus Elise go for 33K and an excellent 1991 Volvo 240 go for $6850. Last week was a nice Spitfire.
I watch auctions all the time. Gotta be ready when my kids finally stop draining me of $$!
First one of those I saw IRL was on a used-car lot in the East Bay. They wanted the unbelievable sum of $10,000. I was in high school at the time and the 10 grand was as unattainable to me then as the like sell price of this one will be.
The dealer was fantastic. At the same time there was a Ferrari Barchetta on the lot and a Lotus 19 Buick in the shop. They’d even let a couple high school kids wander around, drool and ask stupid questions.
Years ago I happened to be driving through Malibu in my SL600 when I passed an older couple driving a gullwing. He could see me drooling and gave me a polite nod. Then I went home and told my wife, “A guy in a 300SL nodded at me today!” She then proceeded to roll her eyes. ZERO appreciation for the finer things!
A couple weeks ago, a spectacular 1971 Jag E-Type pulled into the parking space next to my Spitfire. The guy got out and we proceeded to geek out over each other’s car for the next 30 minutes. He was incredibly knowledgeable and as it turns out owns 3 of them.
I told my wife when I got home and her response was even more tepid than Mrs. Mad Scientist.
Chicks…
THREE E-TYPES!
I’ll be in my bunk.
He’s a cool guy. Turns out I met him last year at a local show where he had another of the beauties. He’s a cool guy. So unassuming. Owns a local company, drives an old Lexus or something as a dd and still uses a flip phone.
Even though his car was worth $80K or so more than mine, he was all over it. A real car guy.
employing the royal we.
Better than constantly employing the “I” and “me”.
https://twitter.com/martian_munk/status/1131279750406778881
Looks like she deleted the tweet:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7Mc5K0XoAAOQml.jpg
Holy shit, her entire feed is raging dumpster fire.
https://twitter.com/spoiledsoymilk_
“sarah jihad ???? #queermuslim #cleftstong vegan por los animales y mundo ?
they/them”
#queermuslim
I’m sure she’s a fully practicing member of the Islamic faith.
Apparently, she is also a Spanish-speaking aborigine of the Los Angeles Basin.
I think she should demonstrate her solidarity with her people by relocating to Gaza. Queer Muslims are celebrated there…….when they hit the pavement.
Oh, not splat, that’s ISIS, Gaza is run by Hamas. They just hang their gays.
I thought Hamas threw them off rooftops in Gaza a while back?
There might have been a rope shortage. It is Gaza, after all.
There might have been a rope shortage. It is Gaza, after all.
The lynching budget has been siphoned into the rocket budget.
I’m giggling about a plane load of gays from San Fran deplaning and calling out “Who called for the hung gay guys?”
Oh, G_D
I was at my complexes laundry room &there was a lady in there. We started talking. I asked her where she’s from &she told me she’s from Chennai, India. I started naming the traditional street foods from there cause I recently watched a video about Chennai and her face lit up.
At what point do we just get to shoot people for being willfully ignorant?
In the age of the internet, we’ve somehow simultaneously achieved maximum information resources and maximum stupidity.
“The more you know . . . ”
the dumber you are?
I guess our knowledge is getting wider and wider but shallower and shallower.
Yep, all those mega fauna went extinct because homo sapiens ate all their grass.
Humans don’t have canine teeth for nothing.
Big City Menace, Small Town Hero
If there was a reason President Donald Trump chose the small Pennsylvania town of Montoursville to hold a campaign rally, no one in the media is saying what it is. In the absence of any answers, let me suggest one, admittedly more speculative than proven but a possibility nonetheless.
In 1996, during the midst of Bill Clinton’s desperate drive to become president, 16 French club members from the Montoursville high school and five of their chaperones died in the crash of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island.
Although the phrase has been much abused, there is none better than “cover-up” to describe what followed. Like many initiatives the Clinton White House choreographed, this one was highly improvisational. Before it was through, with the CIA calling the shots and the FBI following its lead, the TWA 800 investigation would make several sharp course corrections.
To be sure, the great majority of those working the investigation had little or no idea it was being misdirected. Some who did harbor suspicions bravely resisted the misdirection, but they had almost nowhere to turn with their protests. Had there been a vigilant media to hear these individuals, or even a mature internet to share their objections, the truth would have surfaced, but it has not. At least not yet.
Uh, Clinton was already President in 1996 and was on his way to an easy re-election against Bobdole.
I feel like something is missing from that article.
Argument?
Coherence?
Marbles
He picked the airport near Williamsport, the fact that it is actually in adjacent Montoursville is unimportant. Flying in, doing a rally in a hangar and leaving is convenient to his schedule.
I suspect that he wanted an older industrial PA area and didn’t wanted to highlight that it wasn’t Scranton. Which would have had too many Biden comparisons..
But it does really show how thin a thread a conspiracy theorist will attempt to build from.
If not for the conspiracy theorists, I’d have successfully forgotten TWA800 entirely.
There is also those Final Destination movies..
Other people might be more fortunate, but I run into conspiracy theorists more often than I run into movies.
The first one was great.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Barbon
Interesting that libertarians owe a lot to the Puritans. In fact the idea that libertarians support “social liberalism” and “social justice” is primarily due to this Puritan influence. So it is no wonder why social liberalism and SJWs are so statist today since this idea of “social liberalism” and “social justice” was extremely flawed in the first place.
Also the Puritans were the ones who wanted to overthrow the monarchy, aristocracy, the established church and totally upend the economic system. So how were they “conservative”? And the Cavaliers were attacked by the Puritans for being vain ostentatious rakes. So the “social conservatives” were the ones attacked the aristocratic ruling class for being too loose.
His unusual middle name–”If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned”–given to him by his strongly Puritan father, is an example of a hortatory name: religious “slogan names” were often given in Puritan families in 17th-century England.[1]
God, I hate wikipedia so much.
… It turns out the proprietary screw holding down the casing on the center console wasn’t the only attachment, and the rest has been hooked to other spots in a manner that I can’t divine the proper means of disconnection. With limited time, I’ve gone and slid back to the 200x’s. I’m actually burning CDs so I’ll be able to reliably listen to something on the road. I’ve gone from a drive the size of my thumbnail to a stack of discs bigger than a hamburger.
Anyone got an eight track player and a mess of tapes so I can go even more primitive?
Did you try cleaning the jack? Try a different thumb drive?
I have tried changing drives.
I am most annoyed when it rnadomly cuts out during driving, or decides to work one trip but not the return.
I don’t know if I have anything that will fit inside a USB jack to apply alcohol to the connectors.
Can’t you just spray a little electrical contact cleaner in there?
No, because I didn’t think of it.
Use a spray can with a skinny red plastic tube that fits in the nozzle.
https://www.crcindustries.com/products/qd-174-electronic-cleaner-11-wt-oz-05103.html
https://www.homedepot.com/p/CRC-11-oz-QD-Electronic-Cleaner-05103/205021975
My cynical self doubts, but I have to try.
Unfortunately I don’t seem to have any at the moment, I’ll have to get to the store.
I’ll be back.
It didn’t help.
Then it’s probably a cracked or cold solder joint.
Sorry dude. Seemed plausible.
I know. I wouldn’t have run out and tried if I didn’t think it might work.
Check the thermostat
Didn’t read the first part of this. Does FM still work? Maybe buy a cheap FM modulator.
The only thing that is not working is the USB port.
Try giving it a good whack.
Always worked for my Grandpa.
Isn’t it under warranty? Make them fix it.
I brought it in, they did a software reset that failed to fix it, and now I don’t have a window in which I can bring it back and say “you didn’t fix it” before the road trip. When I get back, I’m definately going to do so.
I assume you have a smartphone or a tablet, right? Why not use bluetooth or an aux jack to play music or whatever it is you want to play?
You assume too much.
No aux jack on the car, and I have already ruled out bluetooth and a non-viable option/
Eight-tracks were awesome.
Big enuf to hide a few reefers in them.
So I heard.
They were awesome because they were the first way to play your own music in your car.
They otherwise sucked pretty hard, really. But we didn’t know any better at the time, and Buddha knows I loved mine. I can see it now – mounted under the dash.
As soon as I could, though, I got a cassette player for the car (if memory serves, I paid for it through informal retail sales of a certain high-demand commodity). I believe I recall a few of my friends who may have used empty cassette boxes for storage, IYKWIMAITYD.
How much audio fit on one artridge? I can’t seem to dig that up.
A whole album, I think.
Its only been about 40 years since I used one, so I could be wrong.
How many minutes was normal?
Imperial minutes or metric minutes?
I don’t know the maximum but they were typically sold by the album. Only it was 4 quarters instead of 2 halves. We had one in our family where one song was split in the middle between two of the quarters.
I’m just trying to figure out how many it would take to hold the 151 hours and 40 minutes of audiobook I have on this thumb drive.
Prerecorded eight-track tapes tended to hold only a single album, about 46 minutes of content, or 11.5 minutes per track. Consumers wanted the ability to record more music on a single cartridge, so manufacturers came out with units of greater capacity, i.e. 60 and 90 minutes tapes. A few 100 minutes tapes do exist.
I’ll enact your labour for yo.
I looked for it, but didn’t find it.
So, I’d need a crate of 198 cartridges to hold the books… and probably a dedicated passenger to swap them out.
According to this Nerd site you’d only need a crate 16″x24″x12″ , it could easily fit in the passenger seat, and you should be able to swap out cassette tapes while driving, it’s not like changing a tire.
I don’t want to read the labels looking for the right casette while driving.
Learn Braille!
Just preload the cassettes in the crate so you pull them out in the order you’ll want to listen to them.
You’d think that works, but I’d be the guy who had it all tumble into the footwell…
From the morning links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Benioff
Benioff is a huckster. A successful huckster, but a huckster nonetheless.
And apparently he knows better what to do with your money than you do. What a prince.
Slimy weasel is slimy.
leaders should serve not only their shareholders but all stakeholders, including customers, employees, partners, communities and the environment, to make the world a better place
And not truly accountable to any of those nor do they have any effective oversight or control, which basically allows him to do whatever he pleases with other people’s (shareholders’) property.
“Here is a portrait of @bariweiss.”
https://twitter.com/elivalley/status/1130927543283003393
WTF??
Is there a lower form of discourse than tweeting a political cartoon?
DU?
Ducks Unlimited?
At least DU serves as a relief valve for paranoid psychotics.
The pure hatred on the left of Bari Weiss is fascinating. She barely strays from the left orthodoxy, mainly by being a Jew that doesn’t want Isreal to be destroyed, and she triggers them so hard. Just a pure freak-out about her. The narcissism of small differences dialed up to 11.
Is it just me, or is that particular style of illustration almost universally grating. The dark shades, excess lines and extreme caricatures are supposed to convey some sort of malice. But, all they do is prove incredibly distracting, highlight the author’s lack of creativity, and convince me that whoever cobbled the idiocy together can’t manage a coherent point. I mean, the cartoon in question has orders of magnitude more labels and “have to explains” than anything many of us used to mock the political cartoons at TOS for relentlessly. The target of his cartoon doesn’t even look a damned thing like what he drew.
It’s not just you. I agree. I’ll add it seems like he is overcompensating for a lack of insight.
Reminds me of that idiot leftist who does the Existential Comics strip.
“Heterosexuality Without Women
There’s a lot to look at in this image. At first glance, one sees the anonymity of Norman Rockwell’s mid-century America: the house-unparticular porch, the timelessness of the couple form. Take another look and the pillars supporting the unseen roof of the porch start to resemble the Ionic columns of the White House, the background becoming a gesture or a promise of possibility. You begin to see the image in the aggregate, and the couple, girded by a backdrop literally overwhelmed by the household, becomes the timelessness of the entire image. This photo also tells a profound story about whiteness, above and beyond the fact that almost everything in this photo is, itself, white. It’s such an all-consuming aesthetic, here, that it practically resists interpretation; like the generically familiar (to me, a white person) porch, the cover photo claims that there’s nothing to see, because we already know what it is. We have seen this image, we know this couple, “we” should be comfortable. My “we” is particular to me, but then again, I am more or less exactly who this photo is aimed at. As a queer person, I also notice the quasi-uniform-like aesthetic of Pete and Chasten — I wondered, for a second, if they were actually wearing the same pair of pants — marveling for a moment at the sartorial doppel-banging that at first seems to claim center stage in this photo, before realizing that, instead, there’s actually no sex at center stage, here. And that is part of the point.”
https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/heterosexuality-without-women/
https://twitter.com/walterolson/status/1131022621934534658
I think gay men are officially now longer “in” now.
So will they left return to their traditional view that gay men are all decadent aristocratic fascists?
You know, I can remember when the thrust of gay rights groups’ media message was how they’re just like everyone else. Now there’s teeth-gnashing because Bootyman is just a standard issue white gentry lefty rather than a clone of Liberace or something?
Where’s John when you need him to make the argument again that gays are boring now.
Because a lot of political maneuvering is purely reactionary? That is in the sense of purely to trying to refute whatever argument your opponents are making at the time?
I mean back when the socons were attacking gays as being creepy pedophiles and since the socons sucked that argument must be refuted. Now that those socon arguments aren’t very prominent anymore arguing that “gays are normal people” is not as expedient as it used to be.
Oh and I brought up the Puritans earlier: they attacked the aristocracy as being vain, ostentatious and licentious. This was a pretty clear attack on the rich so that was quite “liberal” attitude to have. Later that attitude came to be regarded as “conservative.” Yet today the liberals have many of the same views especially today with regards to man sexually abusing women.
Heterosexuality Without Women
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
It’s almost like people don’t fit neatly inside your bigoted little boxes.
Isn’t he/she/it just precious?
Fort Collins, here I come!
Maybe not literally. I have an end date at work, so will be searching for a new gig and FtC is at the top of the location list.
I have plenty of time until my date, and a good comp package if I stay that long, so no sweat. Yet.
I
Congrats! Negroni is there, so you’ll have an excellent resource.
I’m fucking jealous!
Here’s an interesting article about the investigation of moon dust and its implication for going back to the moon. Basically the dust gets everywhere and is prone to being super static charged (sticky), so they’re going to have to send a good vacuum with the astronauts. It also has some strange properties that they are still investigating, including using only recently rediscovered data from the Apollo missions to do so.
So you saying snorting it will get you high?
You’ll be a rocket man, burning out his fuse up there alone
I’m watching the documentary, “The Red Pill”, which had been on my radar for awhile, and I’m getting so angry I’m having to take breaks. There are so many people–sooooo many people–in that movie that I’d love to see torn apart by wild animals.
Why would you put yourself thru that?
Is it that unwatchable? Feminists protested it, so it can’t be all bad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Pill#Screening_cancellations
Sure, Jan.
No, it’s a good watch, it’s just seeing people like a gender studies professor from UC San Diego or wherever talking about how men getting shafted in custody rulings is fine because women do all the work at home and men don’t even really want to be fathers anyway, or the editor of Ms. magazine talking about the patriarchy and how men have it all their own way and they’re just mad because now, finally, women are treated equally, so shut the fuck up and go die in a mine, stuff like that. It’s difficult not to yell at the television at some points.
There are some good takeaway quotes: “You don’t see NOW complaining that there aren’t enough women employed as ditch diggers.”
He’s always done this. It’s branding. His main occupation is selling his brand, which is Trump.
I could name a certain rapesquatch who does the same thing.
Bob Dole?
Also yes.
STEVE SMITH FOR PRESIDENT!
So speaking of Game of Thrones I do find it interesting that a lot of complaints about it on youtube are from the same people who bemoan The Last Jedi and other media for being a post-modern deconstruction. Except is that Game of Thrones whole shtick that it is a post-modern deconstruction of The Lord of the Rings?
I perceived it as LOTR as written by Machiavelli
Oh not to mention that Game of Thrones “subverting your expectations” was supposed to be a big plus: Ned Stark and Red Wedding for example. Now when Rian Johnson does that now that is something stupid and possible even sinister…
Not really, big deal is “OH GOD WHY DID I NOT SEE THIS COMING?!” effect of putting all kinds of foreshadowing in there. It also is clear from the start what kind of story it is (R-rated soap opera), so it’s not subversion of the whole genre.
The complaints are, from what I see correctly, that the subversion not only comes out of nowhere, it conflicts with the established tone of the series, and characters as they have been built up so far.
As far as Lord of the Rings, it comes from an idiotic Martin quote (“But what, I asked, was Aragorn’s tax policy?”) and the fact that that’s the only “fantasy with swords” series media idiots heard of. A Catholicism-influenced English myth tinged with melancholy, seen through the eyes of some salt-of-the-earth common-ish (although they are gentry where they come from) strangers who have oversized impact on great events around them is not Dallas with Swords and Wolves with some War of the Roses mixed in, and then I write a Hyborian age story over there, and not connect them twenty years and five books in.
BTW, anyone who went “wha, Ned Stark dies, bargle?!” never saw Star Wars or what? I gave up on first book (at most) 150 pages in and I was like “Fucking hell, King, Lannisters gonna kill you and Ned, you’re gonna die with him, aren’t you? Oh, and I wonder if orphan bastard with special albino wolf is gonna be a hero or someshit?”
Shhhhhhh!!!!! Don’t spoil the tv snobs, media idiots and internet fanboys!
Anyway you are right. The dirty secret is that our New Golden Age of Television is filled with R-rated Soap Operas. Serialization was traditionally frowned upon by the tv snobs are vulgar trash and they used to regard the live tv-anthology show as the epitome of Television Art.
Anyway a lot of praise of Game of Thrones was about how it “subverted your expectations” and how a postmodern deconstruction of Lord of the Rings where bad things happen to good people and there are no real good or evil people. Whether or not is was any good seem to be besides the point. How many people think dark depressing tragedies involving assholes who die is inherently brilliant writing? Quite a few and for a long time.
Now that these arguments are being used to defend media the internet fanboys hate they change their tune. I find that hilarious.
Shhhhhhh!!!!! Don’t spoil the tv snobs, media idiots and internet fanboys!
Oh shit, I wasn’t clear – I was talking about the books (seriously, ‘Game of Thrones’ is infinitely superior series title to ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’). The show had an ending built in from the fact that, you know, child actors age in real time. Books, however, can spawn new endless plotlines without final resolution till the old fuck dies and howls of fans force the estate to hire Joe Abercrombie to finish that shit up.
I’m not a fan, as you can tell. Lions of al-Rassan came out a year before GoT, and did the same shit he’s praised for in one book, that was finished and complete story of the characters, even if it’s clear world still went on afterwards and important shit happened.
The meta-narrative of him not writing the books and the collective book fandom losing their mind second, third and fourth-guessing plot developments and making oracular pronouncements on why the book is totally coming out now guys? That has me riveted.
The show, eh, I watched the first four seasons, it was books with annoying cruft mostly removed so I could digest it, and then my DVD source dried up. The complaints right now are not “muh subversion”, it’s “you spend hours spinning wheels, then rush through character development jumping from plot point to plot point without any reasonable connection between, then call it done” and that seems fair criticism.
I had that problem watching later seasons of Buffy – OK, you want Characters First, so you don’t care that your plots make sense as long as we hit Character Moments, but then you need those plot points, so your characters arbitrarily switch personalities and attitudes to hit them, so now you have shit plot that is enacted by people I’d have never spent years until now watching.
Well you were correct anyway…
Welcome to the modern internet fandom….
Ah the old problems of serialized tv like soap operas. Difference is soap operas could keep their plotlines and characters going for decades but now modern TV expects an actual end which compounds that problem…
OK, you want Characters First, so you don’t care that your plots make sense as long as we hit Character Moments, but then you need those plot points, so your characters arbitrarily switch personalities and attitudes to hit them . . . .
I just had a flashback to Woke Charmed.
To be fair, Woke Charmed characters* have no discernible personalities or traits so it’s not surprising when they do whatever the plot requires.
*Except our Blessed Lady Regina George, she of KEEP IT DOWN, BITCHES.
By the way I thought a TV biopic about Alexander I of Yugoslavia would be an interesting idea. A real Game of Thrones if you will. You will even have plenty of opportunities for commentary on modern politics. However considering what happened to Yugoslavia in WWII and the 1990s such a show would be problematic. Also it will also be really long, really complicated, really expensive, have too many straight Christian White Men and could offend pretty much every ethnic group in Europe. So it won’t happen.
You know, doing Richard II through to Richard III in GoT style would work, and be pretty damn good. Added bonus that English-speakers might be interested enough to do take a look.
BBC almost had it with their Hollowed Crown series, which is pretty good, but maybe not actual Shakespearean dialogue, except for speeches (Winter of Discontent has to stay though).
Good point. The final two books will be published eventually. Whether or not Martin will be the sole author is the question…
Those were supposed to be subversions?
It was stupid when Rian Johnson did it, because he did it poorly and in a self-indulgent manner.
Gooooooooo BLUES!
Go Blues for real.
That was a good series. No nonsense or huge egos, just get it done.
Binnington is a stud. I hope he stays hot. Also Tareseko.
Go Blues!
Aaaaand fuck Boston.
Shit! Four cop cars just pulled up right in front of my house and 15+ cops with riot shields, battering rams and balaclavas came pouring out to arrest my neighbor…
Someone didn’t pay his property taxes, is my guess
I really hope the guy doesnt have pets.
His bulldog is the one I was bitching about a few weeks back. It seemed unscathed last I saw it.
Is anyone still around to take care of the dog?
No, I don’t mean “take care of” the dog, I mean feed it, etc.
I think so. Worst case, my next door neighbor will take it.
That’s really not a nice joke to play on your neighbor.
When they interview you, be sure to tell them he was always quiet and kept to himself.
Or “it sounded like a train”
There was a guy used lived in the same apartment building I lived in. If he’d ever done something bizarre or criminal and someone interviewed me I would have said, “Yep, saw that coming. Doesn’t surprise me at all.”
Wore a wire, didya?
Two of my neighbors had a quad-runner accident over the weekend and had to be helicoptered out. One of them is still in hospital.
Child Support?
That’s no joke
“Frigid Offices Might Be Killing Women’s Productivity
As their goosebumps have long suggested, women perform better on tests of cognitive function at toastier room temperatures.
If “I told you so” had a sensation, it would be the sweet cocoon of an 80-degree workspace. For years, women have been saying that the AC is on too damn high. We’ve dragged not one but two sweaters to the office in the summer: one for our slowly numbing legs, and one for our shivering shoulders. Scientific studies have already shown that offices are set for men’s frostier preferred temperatures.
Now a new paper confirms what many of us have long suspected. Women don’t just prefer warmer office temperatures. They perform better in them, too.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/05/warm-offices-women-productivity/589966/
https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy/status/1131290237362089984
So Phetasy got “tasteful nude” to improve her math skills?
Now a new paper confirms what many of us have long suspected.
You don’t say.
Needz MOAR THOs.
“Battle for the thermostat: Gender and the effect of temperature on cognitive performance”
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0216362
80 degrees?
Fuck that oven. Put on a sweater.
Yeah, fuck that. I work much better at 70. 80 would put me to sleep.
I prefer 69.
If only I could get paid for that.
Who says you can’t? With a little hard work and perseverance anything is possible, follow that dream!
#68AndIllOweYaOne
#6.9 Thats a period in the middle of 69
I prefer 77. You get eight more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CdVTCDdEwI
Funny you mention oven. I think 80 is ideal because it is close the temperature of a kitchen which is where women have evolved to live in.
I’ll save that one for my next HVAC battle. I wonder how it will go over.
Usually the skelator stick figure harpy already is wearing one. Not a warm one, but a light fashionable one while making overly dramatic displays of how cold they are. Fuck you, put on a coat. It’s a lot easier to put on layers.
Every office I’ve worked in had the temperature set for women, and God-forbid you comment on it.
That writer is full of shit on that, at the very least.
Same here, as far as I can tell. Basically, women will complain endlessly about it, and the men are much more tolerant of it being warmer than they want.
Of course, having a woman set the temperature doesn’t stop the carping from the other women.
They banned space heaters in our office because so many women kept tripping the breakers with them.
Plus, fire hazard.
Ya that small part too.
Also… maybe if men were allowed to wear next-to-nothing during the summer the way women are, they wouldn’t need to complain about the temperature.
Please.
This isn’t appropriate for an office, no matter what you say.
No, but I’d never work from home again.
I’ll take that as a ‘thank you’.
If you think about the typical guys in all the offices you’ve worked in, and then imagined them working in a Speedo “budgie-smuggler,” I’m pretty sure you’d work remotely.
I sure as Hell would.
Why do you have to go and wreck it with your “reality”?
Hey, if I can’t have fantasy babes in dental floss bikinis because the reality is they’re all “average” . . .
Compromise.
See, she’s prepared for a day at the office.
Boing
Certainly not appropriate office attire. He’s not wearing a tie.
Also, “Is it hot in here, or is it just me?”
80? But that would contribute to Global Warming!
So men have to be miserable and distracted for gender-balance?
Obviously. It’s only “Balanced” if everything it set up to favor the women, don’t you know that?
Apparently so…
So men have to be miserable and distracted for gender-balance?
Yes. Yes they do. We shall only accommodate women’s needs.
This is one of the many reasons I stopped working for other organizations and started doing contract/consulting work.
Well that… and you’re not a team player.
It’s nice to know that somebody’s paying attention.
My office may be an outlier, but the place is seriously fucking freezing for everyone, including the men. Everyone is seriously wearing winter coats, scarves, and gloves in the middle of summer.
Everyone has been telling the maintenance guy about it nonstop, but all he does is walk in the room, stand there for two seconds before declaring “feels alright to me” and leaving. We used to turn the thermostat down, but he installed one of those fucking plastic locking cases over it.
What’s annoying is that if it’s chilly outside, it feels fine in there since the A/C doesn’t kick on. But as soon as the temperature outside exceeds 65 degrees or so, the fucking Arctic blast mode kicks in.
80 degrees? that is bullshit. I don’t believe it. Go in a place where the A/C is broken and that’s the temp in there, and it’s sweltering in the stale air. Everyone is sweaty and miserable. No one is going to be more productive when they’re sweaty and miserable. Hell, California wants us to put the thermostat at 78, and I find that awfully hot, if the A/C is needed at all.
And I say that as someone who often wears a cardigan in my own home because the teenage spawn overheats. But that’s because he has a metabolism of a kangaroo rat on speed, and I don’t.
It doesn’t help that most of the men in my office were Indians, either. They’re all like, “you’re hot?”
Yeeaah… no.
Buildings these days are built for one specific temp, and thermostats (the real ones, not the fakes that can be “adjusted”) only have a temp swing of about one degree. Why? There are too many heat loads around the buildings these days, computers, and they need to be set for building code. They will have seasonal changeover and perimeter reheating to keep it in this range all year long. And when old buildings are refitted, the same things need to be taken into consideration. Having boilers and chillers running, along with ICE systems, means you can’t just play with this willy-nilly.
“chicago style pizza is, and always will be, superior.”
https://twitter.com/morganisawizard/status/1131336121546416128
My God does she realize what she has done?! Still would.
She can eat whatever the hell she wants.
Please tell me that’s not one of those tweeter trannies.
Who am I kidding, still would.
I’m looking at it…and I’m willing to try it because I know cheese, bread, and tomato sauce usually produces something that tastes good…but if you didn’t keep referring to it as “pizza” I would never in a million years think of it as pizza. That’s why you have to call it “Chicago-style pizza”; it’s not immediately obvious that it isn’t just a savory pie or pastry of some kind. I say again, Chicago-style pizza is as much pizza as a whale shark is a whale.
OT: I think Theresa May’s utterly screwed now —
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9126910/brexit-latest-andrea-leadsom-quits-cabinet-theresa-may-clinging-on/
I will relish watching her squirm after the Brexit Party hopefully gains their seats.
Yeah, that’s more theatre. Leadsom is the vile shit that ran for leadership last time, on a “I’m totally Brexit, vote me over that vile backstabber Gove”, then, when she and May were the two candidates elected by MPs and the membership was about to have a vote on who will be the leader, threw a crying fit over how “It’s haaaard, waaah, I donwannaaaaaa!” thus making May the default leader and PM.
This is just elected representatives making sure the Dreaded Mob does not get their way, and fuck them, what are they going to do? Next election is still years away, by then enough old people should die and enough new citizenships given out that the second referendum won’t even be needed. I’m not saying this will happen, just that this is their calculation.
And every wrong will be blamed on Brexit. I see Thomas Cook is doing just that today.
It’s still maddening that she stayed PM after the last election. She should’ve been out on her ass from that debacle, yet there she still is.
Another win for the defenders of property rights.
Didn’t Leona Helmsley do that?
I think her hotel staff had to do it.
Christ, what an asshole!
And not the fun kind, either.
Eh. Healthy animals are euthanized for any number of poor reasons, such as no room in the shelter. The only outrage is the journo trying to push people’s buttons.
Yeah, I hate stories like this but I hate that shelters euthanize animals for space more. I understand why they do it and I don’t fault them for it, I just think it’s a situation that sucks. That’s why I’m a huge proponent of adoption.