Man, I feel like that was an especially good rehab visit, er, work trip. Yeah. It was a shit-fest, but at least I missed all of the vomiting and literal shit that my children put out all over the homefront. Happy Memorial Day weekend. Enjoy your barbecues and drinking!
Someone decided to make an art film I might watch.
I’m suuuuuper shocked that the leader of a sex cult that focused on branding and degrading women had trouble getting it up. After you’ve branded your fifth woman, regular old sex must seem just boring.
Good dog. She deserves ALL the treats and belly rubs.
Oh boy, more bombings in France.
Not Lyon!
Zut!
I was watching some of a tennis tournament in Lyon earlier today. Surprised they didn’t mention it. Instead I read it from one of you.
Yeah, and a neighborhood you and I have been in.
Greatest farmers market I’ve ever been to.
Even their crappy Farmers’ Markets are pretty damn good. The semi-permanent one I went to at Versailles’ Halles du Marché Notre-Dame blew my French chef cousin’s mind when I sent him some of the photos, particularly the giant stonkin’ piles of mushrooms of all types for sale. He hunts mushrooms and gets good variety in Normandy, but nothing like what he saw in those photos.
+1
Whos a good girl? Whos a good girl?
W/E
Have some Nephilium-inspired THEME MUSIC!
And have some more, specially selected for a long weekend.
FEAR was likely one of the 1st punk groups I was exposed to
And they had not one but <a href="https://youtu.be/wN89PQbl6lU"two more beer songs!
Lol. I got the other for you.
I was expecting this one.
Drink!
And they’re yet another band I get to see next weekend.
Love it. Where’s Festus? True fact: Joey Shithead played in my house in Champaign.
Champaign
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTBv4kAdk_w
Sorry in advance.
It could be worse
Sweet! I love that song even though it’s about as edgy as tapioca
There are a number of Oasis songs I like – some quite a lot – but that is not one of them.
Tres, Anti-fa and the New Black Panthers are going to be at the Klan rally in Dayton.
It is going to be a real shit show.
Perfect. Get ’em in close together, and have the Fat Man ready.
Dog shot trying to protect family during home invasion, police say
The family were told to stay in their rooms, but the 17-year-old managed to get out through a bedroom window to run for help.
That’s an old dog.
Did the cops at least have a warrant?
Damn you! I was going to make a similar joke.
Yeah, larger breed too. Some type of Pittie mix. Those guys are lucky to make it to fifteen; it’s the yappy little rat-dogs that live forever.
Actually, I was mocking the reporter for being unable to write a coherent story of what happened. It’s still not clear to me whether the “17-year-old” and the “teen” refer to a canine or human member of the family.
Ah…
#metoo
I got the joke
Of course a cat would get a joke making fun of a dog.
Houston police say four armed intruders broke into the home through the back door which just happened to be unlocked.-
That’s why I use an AR-15 for home defense. 30 rounds isn’t “too many rounds” when shooting at 4 people.
Bah. That’s why I use claymores.
I think a sword is a poor choice.
Very intimidating.
Larf!
Very unwieldy in a hallway.
pfft, it slices through sheetrock like softened butter.
Always remember – FRONT TOWARDS ENEMY! Hehehe….second only to the MRE’s ROCK OR SOMETHING in the annals of hilariously obvious military equipment instructions.
Great minds…
+1 Front Towards Enemy
So… how do I politely tell the people to shut up on the end of day Friday conference call so we can start our weekend?
Hang up the phone and walk away. When someone asks, say “There was a technical issue, but I’m investigating”
Excuse yourself from the call “for just a moment” and just leave for the day.
Fuck em.
LOL! Very simple answer. And, the best.
Just crack a beer and take a big ol’ swig.
The belch should do it.
Tell them you’re having technical diffulties
“Well, I’m sure we all are anxious to begin our holiday weekend.”
Just say you have an emergency. It could be family related, it could be the shits. No one will pry too much.
SBD?
How would people on a conference call smell a “silent but deadly”?
Unless if you have the Zoom live odor option, I mean.
Sorry, I am usually in a full conference room where people call in to. The is always some blow hard in the room that can’t STFU. I always wonder if there is someone on the line doing the fellatio motion to themselves while surfing the net.
Tell them, “Understanding is a three edged sword.” Then walk away.
So a hollow-grind triangular cross-section?
I’ve never seen anyone eaten by a Vorlon before…
Today could be the day.
I used to sit next to a good friend of mine in meetings back when I was in those types of meetings, and she would kick me under the table when I talked/bitched because she just wanted it to end
She sounds hawt.
…and then, dear diary, her under-table kicks with her shoe turned into gentle taps, and then to leisurely rubs with her stocking-clad toes, all the way up the inside of my thigh. I knew then I needed to end the meeting immediately so that we could go fuck in the utility closet. I abruptly told the table “meeting over” and stood up, deftly covering my crotch bulge with my sport jacket tail, and briskly worked my way down the hall. As I went past the window, there was my friend downstairs getting into her car, waving ‘thanks’ for me finally ending the seemingly interminable meeting.
I really enjoyed the realism.
So you headed for the utility closet and she headed to her car? I mean, did you rub one out in the closet, or was she just a cock tease? We need details here, man.
Leave the phone off the hook and leave.
Put the call on speaker, and play music that could be hold music. Say “dammit, somebody put us on hold”. Nobody will know it’s you. Keep complaining about it.
Might not end the call, but it will piss everyone off.
Welcome back, Brett.
We tease Brett a lot, ’cause we’ve got him on the spot.
…John Sebastian
Brett earlier this week.
Hey l0b0t, you should write an article about raising monarchs and swallowtails. It sounds fascinating!
IIRC, there are other amateur lepidopterists here as well. It’s fun but was a bit of an emotional roller-coaster what with the aphid infestations, amazingly bad fly problem that milkweed attracts, and the Black Death infection killing a dozen chrysalis overnight.
Don’t argue with with the SUPREME OVERLORD. Just write the damn article!
Also; I too would be interested.
Oh boy, more bombings in France.
Damned Baptists
Huguenots.
Nice…
No, it was in Lyon.
Thank you. I was afraid no one would clobber that slow, fat pitch that went right over the plate.
I’m amazed his swing actually connected.
I’m still bitter that no one played off of my “wipe it with a rabbit” joke from a few days ago.
Eddie Murphy haz a sad.
I assumed it was Easter Worshipers.
They need new calendars.
“A family dog tried to protect her family as gunmen held a father down during a home invasion overnight.”
And they say dogs have no soul.
(Homage to Twain. If anyone gets the reference # 10 internets to you)
“And they say dogs have no soul”
Dogs are the best people.
This one?
That’s the truth.
+1
True for me as well.
{hangs head in shame, brightens up when pup runs into office wagging her tail}
#metoo
Attention Nephilium.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-48371380?SThisFB
Saw that. At least one headline I read was (paraphrased), “Researches make beer from 5,000 year old yeast, then drink it!”
Well no shit. Why wouldn’t they drink it?
Glad you did. Look upthread. I gave you a scintillating Babylon 5 quote.
I got you my B5 buddy.
Get a room
You mean a Starfury?
I’m sorry you haven’t watched the most well planned out serialized show ever made (which was great Sci-Fi to boot). And looking, it appears you can stream it on Amazon Prime.
No, no. Star Furry.
https://media.tenor.com/images/ff0ae75d7a0cf49f5d5f15dd93cabb11/tenor.gif
MikeS is jealous.
Maybe
So the ancient Egyptians had microbrews – we had to wait for Carter to get those.
USDA staffers quit en masse as Trump administration eyes moving offices out of DC
Awesome. Keep going.
“Federal employees at the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) – two small but important agencies within the USDA –”
Lmao
Is there anything we should actually keep the USDA for?
Who will stamp my meat and eggs.
Euphemism?
Sounds painful.
A downsized Forest Service, which should have an increased focus on selling land to private parties.
Where would Hank Kimball work? Well, not work, but.. well, yeah, I guess it’s work….
Another Hank Kimball quote:
Like my grandfather used to always say: “Age is just how old you are.”
*standing O*
Every time I think he is an irredeemable POS he does something like this and I reconsider.
How about the far side of the moon.
What did the moon do to deserve that?
Nothing, but the other candidate destinations would’ve been utterly destroyed. Just another crater, on the moon.
And don’t replace them.
Hell yes. The USDA is notoriously bloated and full of bureaucratic empire builders.
Note that 65% of the USDA’s budget is food stamps. The rest is mostly committed to the manipulation of commodity prices with artificial market constraints.
Just get rid of it.
When they start whining about research and food safety, just remember that it’s included in the “All Other” part of their budget, which makes up a whopping 5% of their departmental total outlays.
Their going to quit and do what? Actually work? Lol.
They’ll go on disability and get subsidized housing and laugh at us all.
They probably think they can easily find work as beancounters at other agencies, or with contractors. And that may work for the first couple of small agencies that get downsized or moved, but then they will learn exactly how dependent the Mid-Atlantic economy is on the federal government. This will be a big problem for Maryland and Virginia as their DC suburbs turn into wastelands and their welfare rolls swell.
Mixed emotions about the moving part as part of a larger strategy to shrink government. It would help to downsize the government through attrition, as we have seen here. Important not to drop these agencies down in Bumfuck and then have the local economy become dependent on it; slice and dice the agencies to places like Richmond, Tulsa, Kansas City, etc, so that the impact is not great when the agency is completely shutdown.
5 year rotation between sites. Long enough to get people some decent experience to take to the private sector. Short enough to avoid relying on it.
Look at Debbie Downer over here.
Yeah, I know. But I live in Virginia and a lot of those people live in Virginia and then I’ll have to pay their welfare when they can’t find jobs.
I hear you and share your disdain of gov’t employees. However, these days it’s almost as difficult to fire someone in the private sector. I’ve seen, and continue to see, Management putting up with lazy incompetents out of fear of a discrimination charge/lawsuit
I keep trying to come up with a way to significantly downsize the fedgov while minimizing the damage to the economies of VA and MD. Nothing has yet struck me.
Genocide?
Neutron bomb.
Can’t be done. It’s parasites all the way down.
Fuck ‘em.
Fuck that grifter Norton. A proper judiciary would zero out any funding & offices for state like representation for a non state such as DC.
Happy weekend everyone. I was off but working about as much as if I was at the office today. I can’t pull 65 through a 30mph corner at work however.
Grass is cut, Dog is walked, time for a shower before beer o’clock.
Got off early. Started with a couple Fat Head’s Goggle Fogger Hefe Weizen at a pizza place. Went home and decided to do a beer taste testing of Schwartbiers and Double Bock’s. Good times. Loved the Google Fogger. Also really liked the New Belguim 1554. I’m drinking Paulaner Salvator and Aynger Celebrator Double Bucks right now both of which have a nice creamy caramel flavor. This Craft Beer store up the street is going to love me.
I went to my favorite dive where I get a 23 oz beer and double shot of well bourbon for $9.
That’s a pretty good deal.
Philly has a thing called City Wides where the dive bars all have beer/shot specials.
It’s a great town to get drunk and meet bar flies
Bob and Barbra’s.
I don’t know. I prefer women who have vaginas
Why is everyone selling 23 oz beers? Seems like an odd number.
Part of me suspects either metric or regulation.
Metric gives 680 mL… which isn’t any more rational.
I’m guessing there’s some sweet zone for some stupid regulatory rule.
Regulation, probably. There are a lot of nannies who try to control “problem” (*cough* poor people *cough*) drinking by limiting large-can sales. This has, unfortunately (for the brewers, nannies never care about collateral damage) also affected small brewers who tend to release larger cans/bottles when they first get started. Bottling lines for aluminum 12 oz cans a lot more expensive than slapping a label on a 16oz bottle, etc.
The 23 oz is usually a draft pour, but I’d guess some old blue law saying you can’t serve someone two servings (where a serving is a 12 oz can/bottle) at a time. It’s one of those things that bugs me, but I’ve never been able to find a good reason for it.
And bottles are usually 12 oz, 22 oz, or 750 mL in size. Cans come in 12, 16, and 32 as regular ones. Not counting the 40’s as normal.
Yeah, the number and nature of alcohol regulations is totally absurd. And most of those date from the repeal of prohibition. You can tell that they made damn sure that the state got total control over that when they let the people have it again.
You got me wondering.
I tried my best Google fu and found nothing.
Good question.
CP: what state?
Apparently, many of them.
Stone IPA.
Ok just opened thr last if my beer tasting bottles which is a Troegs Troegenator Double Bock and I must say this may be my favorite Double Bock so far. The 1554 was my favorite Swartzbier although they lable it as an Ale for Texas beer regs.
I like Troegs.
I do too. I got a nice Nugget Nector Pint glass from them when they did a keg party at my local pub.
I had one left in my beer fridge and one of my guests drank it last weekend.
They’ve started canning the Goggle Fogger as well. There’s some in my fridge, but I started with the Bell’s Official IPA.
<— Belches, crosses eyes and falls over backwards
What? Where? Is this a new thread?
No., it’s the same, familiar thread. Go back to sleep in your alcohol-induced slumber.
What? I am not drunk! OK, well, I’m a little drunk, which is completely different…
Is this the real life?
https://youtu.be/fJ9rUzIMcZQ
How did I get here?
https://youtu.be/5IsSpAOD6K8
How Trump’s embrace of a rogue Libyan warlord sparked a humanitarian catastrophe
Just one phone call and it’s all fixed, easy peasy. Damn Trump and his Libyan adventure. Obama would never have messed up a country like this.
Obama never made friends with dictators *cough* Chavez *cough*.
Hilary fixed Libya. What’s the problem and what difference does it make at this point anyway!?!
Don’t you remember when Trump started that conflict by having Don Jr. call it in with his pizza order, way back when Obama was POTUS and Hillary was SOS? That’s why we can’t have real democracy in the USA like the founders promised us.
Is today a special car warranty robocall day? I’ve gotten 5 of them so far.
My wife keeos getting calls from her own number.
Mine are all calls with the same area code and prefix. Pretty sneaky, sis!
Except it doesn’t mean shit. There are towns where the prefix tells you what neighborhood the call originated in; mine is not one of them.
The guys using the smae area code and prefix come and go… but it’s a dead giveaway that I’m not being called by anyone I want to talk to.
Numbers can be easily spoofed. The phone companies have long known about, and enabled, this.
Yup. I don’t even know anyone’s phone number offhand but the likelihood anyone I know shares my area code and prefix in a city of 8 million is next to zero. Obvious spoofing.
Some guy named Jared from Wayfair has been calling and emailing me for the past 2 days. I ordered a recliner from them and this might be my last order
I get between twenty and thirty robocalls and sales calls per day. Fuck those bastards.
I’ve been getting spoofed numbers that leave me voicemails in Chinese. They’re less annoying because I have no idea what they’re about – maybe it’s “microsoft”, maybe it’s “the IRS”, maybe it’s a prince who wants me to help him move his money!, maybe it’s a time share! Maybe I just won the Chinese lottery! Who knows!
Well, I’m off to the debauchery of the Coke Lot at the 500. Hopefully I live through the weekend, But, as a good friend of mine put it: “You can’t drink all day unless you start in the morning”
Make the news!
Enjoy man!
Awesome! Have fun!
Friday Funbags!
http://archive.li/xxOEm
*backs away from #30*
That’s a toxic amount of glitter.
Looks like she blew an actual farie.
Ha! Well done!
When I was a kid the women were fat and had real parts and gosh darn it we liked it cause that’s the way it was.
#10 is a 10. Well done.
Delicious. Third-wave feminist Naomi Wolf learns on-air during interview that she got something profoundly wrong in her just-published book.
That’s nothing new. The Beauty Myth is full of false facts.
The best part is that someone in our group of pedantic, unmanageable assholes would have surely caught the mistake.
Nice editors, Naomi.
The best part of that really is that the interviewer caught it by just looking at the Old Bailey’s website.
Really displays Wolf’s sheer arrogance — “I caught something that no researcher of Victorian England has caught in 100 years! ” Instead of thinking ‘ ‘maybe there’s a reason for that, I should check”, she went with the ‘wow I’m amazing, I’m gonna publish this ASAP”.
“Moby reveals he fed an underage Christina Ricci glasses of champagne backstage and then at his hotel room in memoir, claiming he dated her, Natalie Portman and Lana del Rey”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7067445/Moby-reveals-fed-underage-Christina-Ricci-glasses-champagne-backstage-hotel.html
Good for Moby. She was insanely hot in Black Snake Moan. Plus there was some great Blues in that movie.
He was a pathetic drunk in those days. I wouldn’t take anything in his “memoir” seriously.
Portman says nuh-uh.
On one hand, she comes across as a total Mean Girl.
On the other hand, one look at Moby awakens inner Biff Tanner I never knew I had.
Right? Who knew he started the fucking nu-male smile.
His version of the “I dated Natalie Portman” story is pretty believable – he was amazed that a young, hot movie star was flirting with him as his fame began to take off. They went on a few dates. He was insecure and afraid that he wasn’t good enough.. and after a couple of dates she calls and says she’s dating someone else.
Her version: He’s creepy and I would never date him. We were just friends. Those weren’t dates. Again… creepy.
We discussed it this morning at TOS. If she actually read what he wrote about the two of them before saying that stuff – she’s just plain cruel. And pretty stuck on herself too.
*lights the Obie Trice signal*
“History teacher is suspended after video emerges of him touching a student inappropriately in the classroom by stroking her back and snakes his arm around her waist”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7067729/History-teacher-suspended-video-emerges-touching-student-inappropriately.html
Dat ass, though.
No half measures. You’re done either way
We call that the Biden Touch.
[golf clap]
“Playboy model is chased out of ultra-conservative Jewish area in New York after outraging locals by walking NAKED through the streets in her latest controversial stunt”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7066137/Playboy-model-chased-ultra-orthodox-Jewish-area-New-York.html
Did they stone her?
Playboy model is chased out of ultra-conservative Jewish area in New York after outraging local Yentas…
*yawns*
Whatever, honey.
Look at meeeee!!!
I would look at her don’t get me wrong.
Of course. Because naked hotties are for looking.
But still. Grow the fuck up.
It’s possible to hate everyone in this story.
Well, it is New York.
Absolutely.
What was the point of the stunt? To raise awareness of naked Belgian models?
Probably the same reason Emily Ratajkowski took her clothes off to protest Georgia’s abortion law. Hawt and dumb.
Now let’s see her travel to Riyadh and do the same thing.
She has been nude all over the place and pissed off a lot of people who frown on that sort of thing. She was arrested in Egypt and the Vatican for her efforts.
“Oh boy, more bombings in France.”
Are you saying diversity doesn’t enrich and embiggens us all?
Bigot.
Ah yes, not even a whisper of scandal in the Obama administration
Dr Murray Gell-Mann died today. I’d link to an obit, but I’m sure that they’ll be completely wrong. Not that it matters anyways. No one will remember as soon as they turn the page to the next article.
I saw what you did there.
OT: Tonight’s libation is from a newly-discovered meadery at Sooke on Vancouver Island. Sadly I can’t start drinking it now (it’s not even three o’clock and we have a tea-totalling guest coming to visit in an hour . . . ).
more for you.
Memorial weekend gas prices lower than last year. And people say deflation is bad.
Be nice if my rent (or anything else I purchase) went down.
You greedy one percenters, always wanting more and the blood of the oppressed paying for it…
And? Is there a point in there?
Really? Around Philly the news readers keep pounding the theme that “It will cost you more to fill up for Memorial Day as gas costs reach $3 per gallon.” Without researching the numbers, I’d bet the cost of gas today, not including federal and state taxes, is less per mile driven than it was in inflation adjusted 1960 dollars. My SUV today gets twice the mileage that my Mustang did in 1968 and gas guzzlers back then were lucky to get 10 mpg.
Yes, it will cost you more than 3 months ago, but gas is down a little from last Memorial Day.
Now I don’t know who to believe!
Unrelated, I’ll be down in Buckeye Lake, Ohio next weekend. I’m available Thursday night if any of you Mid-Ohio people are up for a pint or two.
Pork shoulder is now resting and awaiting to get pulled. Chicken wings going on the smoker soon. Mac n’ cheese prepping. Happy weekend Glibs
You’re going to pull your pork? Are you going to choke your chicken, too?
Yes. Wanna join?
I’ve already pulled and choked mine twice today. I need to take the evening off.
We’re picking up some steaks tomorrow morning. Shocking, right?
Happy weekend indeed.
The rain a couple of weeks ago completely destroyed the road downhill from here. They are finally getting around to fixing it. I walked down there today on my way to the trails I walk when I am WFH. This must prove global warming, because there was never any weather before this, you all know it’s true.
Do any of you play ESO? I wants a frenz who plays it, because there is shit I need to killz.
Didn’t you say you could solo the whole game? 🙂
I could but its a massive download and i think playing with a level one wouldnt be fun
Sooo this happened.
Congrats
Woo hoo! Grats!
You’re totally going to sell that to one of us, right?
Totes. DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO AMAZON!
Sometimes I ask if I want to get the approval of the gatekeepers for my work as a form of validation.
Then I remember I can’t even word a back cover blurb, let alone a pitch a book to an agent who has no interest in reading my email.
Back cover blurbs are TEH WURST!!!
I’m trying to figure out how to blurb a quasi-picaresque novel in a fantasy setting that is mostly exploration with a few serial arcs rather than one long arc beyond “Keep going east.”
“Explorer, Swashbuckler, Merchant, Adventurer, Bastard – Dug FitzHelen has been called many things by many people. All are true in their own way, but everyone else has gotten the story wrong.”
And I sort of lose the plot there.
Is Dug FitsHelen really the name of your book’s hero or is that a toss-off name you just made up for that comment?
Dug FitzHelen is the character’s name
I think that’s an awesome name.
He’s the bastard son of a woman named Helen, and his father’s identity isn’t made public until he’s in his thirties, by which point he’s already well established under the ‘Son of Helen’ name.
Is it long enough? Is it catchy enough?
Well, it piqued my interest. Has a tiny taste of a Neal Stephenson setup.
I just spoiled the whole plot…
Oh well, it’s an adventure story, not a mystery.
This is going to sound mean spirited but I only intend it as constructive criticism, but that is one seriously hackneyed summary, this sentence All are true in their own way, but everyone else has gotten the story wrong, in particular, is grating to me and you follow it up with further overly dramatic juxtaposed contradictions. Scrap the first two paragraphs and hone that last sentence (‘unknown seas beyond the edge of the map’ seems redundant (they’re beyond the edge of the map, of course, they are unknown)) that’s how I’d play it but what do I know I make sawdust for a living.
Okay, I’ve got one yes, one no.
Since writing blurbs is not an art that comes naturally to me, I’ll take all the feedback I can get.
FWIW: I was asked to contribute to an anthology, after I had published several of my books. I was very flattered and said sure. But having that out there but NOT under my control was shockingly awful. I don’t think I could ever go to traditional publishing.
Aren’t those things written by somebody who hasn’t read the book? It often seems that way, anyway.
Can’t find it but I saw a tweet the other day, some writer says he bought a book, read it, loved it, then checked the back cover and saw that he had blurbed it.
If anyone knows a blurb writer…
Congrats Mrs. Jojo!
Thanks!
Congrats
Nice!
Awesome! I was wondering where you had wandered off to.
I have been un/fortunate in that I’ve had a lot of editing/typesetting/formatting work come in lately. Feast or famine around this one-chick shop, as well as getting this book wrapped up.
I note that you return after I worked out the issues with my own typesetting… *suspicious squint*
/totally uses different software and file formats and is well aware of the fact.
I love Art Deco.
Oh, congrats!
Congratulations!
おめでとうございむす!
Congrats!
Congrats!
Thank you all!
Yay you!!
?
Ribbon cutting ceremony?
Let me guess, no Champagne. Losers.
Hey, we went all out with sparkling cider!
Congrat, Mo! I apologize for taking so long on the read-thru. I did a big binge last weekend, and should wrap up this extended weekend.
It’s changed quite a bit from the one I sent you. @Creosote Achilles made some comments that were important. Also, the ending has changed.
Just one?
Budget cuts?
::shrugs::
It’s a holiday weekend
Congratulations!
I’m really happy for you!
Congrats!
Late, but congratulations!
Bell’s Two Hearted in a tall can on my deck with my boom box rocking.
World Wide Stout
That is all.
Are you sure?
/still has several bottles of this one
Polar Vortex this evening, with barrel aged rye. Muy bueno.
“ICYMI: From @ZaidJilani new experimental evidence suggests teaching people about white privilege does not actually increase sympathy for poor blacks, all it does is decrease sympathy for poor whites”
https://quillette.com/2019/05/23/what-does-teaching-white-privilege-actually-accomplish-not-what-you-might-think-or-hope/
https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1131874635962699776
So, it’s working as designed.
By the way. Which MLB team has the best record ( by winning percentage) in the league? That would be the TWINS! All I had to do was move away for them to get good again!
You moved?
And GO TWINS!!!
Back to Central PA to take care of my parents. It’s been… interesting. I miss my old neighborhood in MPLS. And my friends. And my fucking LIFE. The only pluses are that it’s much prettier here and the barmaids call you “sweetheart” pretty much from your first pint.
Good on you for helping your folks. I hope things go as well as they can.
I’m not loving it, but hell, I owe ‘me!
‘em!
Come up to Wilkes-Barre tomorrow and have a cold one on my deck.
May I ask where at in central PA? Bedford County here.
Hour into our trip and we hit a tornado. Happy memorial Day! No worries we are all safe and it passed.
Did you cause any damage to the tornado? Glad you’re all safe.
It put up a good fight but I got the best of it.
We figured you were safe: if the tornado had killed you, you wouldn’t be posting here, would you?
Dunno that would be an epic way to go out. Selfie posted to Glibs 200 ft in the air.
I figured you were old enough to be aware of bash.org.
I just heard Trump getting goaded (“Who are you accusing of Treason?”) into naming names – and he calls them all out as possible traitors to the crown. Comey, McCabe, Strzok and Page, etc.…
Which leaves so many topics to discus. But I’m interested in an important sidebar. Now that the topic has been put squarely on the table by the President himself, do you suppose we’ll see a myriad of think pieces about the possibility that there really was an attempt by supporters of HRC to subvert the election and use the apparatus of government to thwart the evil Trump?
How many pieces did we see about Trump’s delusion that Trump tower had been wiretapped back as this whole thing started? Was there any outlet who declined to get in on that one?
And how many reports, investigative pieces, leak writeups and think pieces have we seen analyzing the possibility, probability, nay, reality that Trump was in the pocket of Russia, or compromised, or working with Putin? Is there any major publication that hasn’t run more than 100 such pieces?
But what we haven’t seen is a serious attempt to look at the motives and actions of the people who set this thing off. Not in the NYT. Not on ABC news. Not on CNN. No, for that you have to go to either some right-wing American website where you might be rubbing elbows with a bunch of conspiracy theorists. Or over to England, where they seem to have a press that does a better job of balancing coverage of US politics than our mainstream press does.
You’d think that at some point they would at least pick up on what the nutcases of the alt-right are chatting about and attempt to debunk it. But we haven’t even seen any serious attempts at that – and those that we have seen have been proven laughably wrong (like all those pieces about how paranoid and megalomaniacal Trump is to think that the FBI would be wiretapping his campaign)
So, what do you guys think? Is anyone going to show up with any sort of journalistic integrity and actually look in to this story? Or are they all going to dutifully take their talking points and spin from their latest incarnation of the journolist and rewrite each defeat as a victory for Oceania?
All I’m seeing today is something about Trump faking a video of Nancy. I’m guessing they’ll run that one into the ground first.
That coverage has been astonishingly dishonest. And if you want to know who is on the list of propagandists, just look for who ran the “Trump fake video” story.
The events: Trump retweets a video compilation of Pelosi stammering and stuttering. A few hours pass as various media outlets feign outrage. Then someone digs around and finds a faked video of Pelosi supposedly drunkenly slurring her words. And then every news outlet worth their salt immediately and quite intentionally conflates the two. I first saw it on NBC news. They introduced it with “things are getting nasty” and mentioned trump sending out the “heavily edited video”, then immediately segued into “another video is circulating that has been altered”… then they run a two minute piece about faking videos and how dangerous that is for democracy. Then back to “trump is being criticized for tweeting the heavily edited video” and “we all have to be careful in this new era where disinformation campaigns are so easy”.
It was a straight-up disinformation piece that was obviously designed to leave the impression that Trump was using faked video in a disinformation campaign. Several other outlets I ran across used the exact same tactic, intentionally placing the real compilation directly adjacent to a faked video of a “drunk” Pelosi – clearly an intentional campaign to lie about what people are murmering about with Pelosi (is anyone at all saying she’s drunk? Everyone has been saying things like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, stroke, etc. or just plain “she’s losing it”, as far as I know.
But now because of the lie in this story, they have trotted out Pelosi’s daughter to say that mommy doesn’t even drink. So it is all a lie.
I didn’t read any of it – just rolled my eyes and moved on.
Just a reminder for any other geeks here. Tomorrow is both towel day and the date of the Glorious Revolution. Carry your towel, wear your lilac, and remember Douglas Adams and PTerry.
Sounds like an invitation to the tubs. Sounds fun but not really my scene.