I don’t find myself in this position very often. But I’m happy to be here doing the links. I pray the format hasn’t gotten so far away from what I was doing that I’m creating havoc. But that’s a risk I’m gonna have to take.
If you were born on this day, you share it with the following: fairy tale writer Jacob Grimm, inventor of read fin and writing system for the blind Louis Braille, football coach Don Shula, acting legend Sorrell Booke, boxing great Floyd Patterson, singer person Michael Stipe, Canadian actor Dave Foley, musician Cait O’Riordan, and soccer player Toni Kroos.
It was also the day on which the following took place: Columbia University was founded (I wonder if anybody was there to report on it), Samuel Colt sold his first pistol to the US government, the Fabian Society was founded in London, Topsy the Elephant was electrocuted, Sir Edmund Hillary reached the South Pole, “Night Court” made its TV debut, Bill Belichick resigned from the New York Jets…a day after taking the job, and Vanilla Ice spent the night in jail after getting in a fight with his wife.
That’s it for that. Now…the links!
Didn’t any of these people see “Kill Bill”? Also, I hope they find these people and cut their balls off.
The Dem-led House got to work and passed a funding bill, but with nothing for the wall Trump is demanding. Its pretty close to what the Senate passed recently, so we will see if it gets before the President and what he will do with it.
“When they go low we publicly say “we’re gonna impeach the motherfucker”. I, for one, welcome the combative nature of the WH and HoR and hope it leads to more cuts and shutdowns.
Whoever thought having the college football “championship game” in the bay area completely fucked up. Better get those tarps from the Pac 12 Championship game out to cover some empty sections, dumbasses.
A Chicago Alderman (D-Obviously) gets caught doing what Chicago Alderman do. And a second one is looking like a real piece of shit as well.
New Yorkers make eating healthy a chore not worth doing. Here’s an idea: buy groceries and make your own salads, you lazy fucks.
OK, I know a lot of teachers “have to” take side work. But this is going too far. Also, definitely would not.
The birthday girl gets three songs: Song #1. Song #2. and Song #3.
Have a great Friday and enjoy the first weekend of the year, friends!
Comments
692 responses to “Friday Morning Links”
Re: Rep Tlaib: The next two years are going to be a non-stop parade of stupid, aren’t they?
Yeshhh… stock up on popcorn, whiskey, and ammo. And girly magazines and cartons of smokes.
I know they make pink AR-15s but I’m not sure it would look right in a standard black rifle. eh, it’s the semi-apocalypse, so long as it feeds properly.
It could be The Elvis Special. He liked pink and black together.
She’s definitely not fulfilling the stereotype of Palestinians as angry and unhinged.
And by the way, that Trump is such a fucking anti-Semite…
Palestinians are Semetic too.
Well, yes, but we’re trying to euphemize the j00s here.
I know, but it just goes to show that Jews are the real anti-semites. /prog
HM can confirm this, but I believe that “anti-semitism” was a deliberate euphemism for the earlier term “judenhaas.”
The term was coined by Wilhelm Marr in an attempt to secularize it. By identifying Jews by language group, as was popular during the time, opposition to Jews was framed as racial/cultural terms as opposed to a mere difference in religious doctrine, which did not have as much power in post-Enlightenment Europe.
Euphemize or Euthanize?
Gee, I wonder why the media are not complaining about Talib’s “tone”. I guess it’s okay when their side does it.
The kid is in grade school. Nice.
‘Things that didn’t happen for $1000 Alex’…
What new moral outrage can I be outraged by?! If there is nothing, I will be outraged!
Doesn’t matter. Just pick one. What’s most important is that you distract yourself from your own personal failings.
I wonder if some of their outrage isn’t also due to distracting themselves from Obama’s and Hilary’s failures.
Also, I hope they find these people and cut their balls off.
You reckon they should have aborted he fetus or the vegetable?
Have a great Friday and enjoy the first weekend of the year, friends!But the Romans and Countrymen can fuck right off.
Blockquote fail. 🙁
::points and laughs::
Sloop is back. Limited time?
I hope to be back a couple days a week at least.
Well really, What have the Romans ever done for us?
Aside from the roads, sewers, aqueducts, rule of law, removal of pirates and brigands, common defense against barbarians…
>>Here’s an idea: buy groceries and make your own salads, you lazy fucks.
You know who else ate a lot of salads…
Jack LaLanne?
People that did not make friends?
This should give people a little idea of the food lines from the government style the love so much. This line has the surprise ending that there is quality food to be found.
Koko the Gorrila?
Hm, was it a German?
Austrian actually.
Ate? or Tossed?
damn your fingers!
“the new guy in prison?”
If your salad has grape jelly on it, I’m gonna pass.
My wife?
The Fabian Society was founded in London
And we’ve been paying for it ever since.
Where was Jack the Ripper when you needed him?
Given that his victims were free market capitalists making best use of their available assets, I’d say Jack was one of them.
Seems like a lot of attention for a second tier Italian singer from the Fifties.
Loved me some Turn Me Loose and Like a Tiger. But a whole society dedicated to a mediocre Italian singer from Philly?
New Yorkers make eating healthy a chore not worth doing. Here’s an idea: buy groceries and make your own salads, you lazy fucks. – or go carnivore and hope there is not a huge line for steak
As long as there isn’t a line to get into a tree stand, we should be good.
*Glances around the woods*
Here’s an idea: buy groceries and make your own salads, you lazy fucks.
Or realize that “eating healthy” and “grabbing a fast food salad with more calories and saturated fat than a typical steak dinner” aren’t necessarily synonymous.
Typical Fast Food Salad: Take the meat that was going to be on your Chicken Sandwich, Cut it up, toss it in some leaves, take the bun and make croutons, and then throw on a sugary dressing.
“Chopt is hyping its lowest-calorie salads.
“New Year’s resolutions as easy as one, two, three — all under 400 calories,” Chopt says on its Facebook page.”
OK, I know a lot of teachers “have to” take side work. But this is going too far. Also, definitely would not. – but was it necessary to go all the way to Morocco for that? Seems a high expenditure lowers the profit
Man, I had that preggie veggie story all lined up and ready to go. Curses, foiled again!
It is a risk one takes in the game of links. For me there is always the risk that something has been linked in the evening links.
::does John Bender victory gesture::
Staff at Hacienda HealthCare had been giving round the clock care to the victim.
Phrasing?
Richard Overton, Nation’s Oldest Living Combat Veteran, Dies at 112
The beloved World War II vet didn’t let old age stop him from enjoying his 12 daily cigars, whiskey-spiked coffee and butter pecan ice cream
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/richard-overton-united-states-oldest-living-wwii-veteran-dies-112-180971152/
To whome did he bequeath his window?
:golf clap:
I think there is a secret Centegenarian Society, and as part of it you have to do your best to live unhealthy. It keeps out the Riff-raff.
It’s just the Howard Families.
Hmmm this in fact happened several days ago. Never mind… I remember seeing a YouTube of this guy a while back.
And yet you don’t recall my posting the obituary. 🙁
Before the judge ordered Burke released on a $10,000 unsecured bond, a prosecutor revealed that Burke had 23 guns in his offices.
Wonder what was the alderman’s public stance on gun control.
He is a firm believer that only the designated aristocracy and their guards should be armed and you peasants should just kneel down and take the bullet.
That’s a lot of trips to Indiana.
I giggled. Thanks.
He sponsored gun grabbing in the Chicago City Council. Of course.
Before the judge ordered Burke released on a $10,000 unsecured bond, a prosecutor revealed that Burke had 23 guns in his offices. The judge gave him 48 hours to surrender all of his weapons.
I’m hoping he surrenders 22 of them and then calls a press conference with a large Manila envelope in hand.
And plays this as he’s entering…
https://youtu.be/6bq8-ZszK1o
Still don’t get the reference, but always a good song to listen to.
The reference:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Man_Nice_Shot
Or you can watch that press conference here (with the messiness blocked)
So was he innocent after all?
I’m not quite sure. IIRC, there was an extremely zealous prosecution of what should have been a minor matter. But that may be wrong.
I guess it doesn’t matter. If he was innocent, did he really think an immoral prosecutor would GAF if he blew his head off? The public probably figured he was just another dirty Pol. That’s why you never roll with the mob.
They were Johnnies-come-lately on that one. Rapeman did a song about him first.
I can’t claim certainty of this, but I vaguely recall reading that he was largely responsible for carving out the exception that allowed aldermen to remain armed from Chicago’s gun ban of the 1980’s. This also happened to coincide with the biggest spike in violent crime in the city’s history.
“Notably, the alleged shakedown in the Burke case revolves around the Burger King around 41st and Pulaski, where 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was fatally shot by Police Officer Jason Van Dyke, leading to Van Dyke’s second-degree murder conviction last year.”
Not sure how that’s notable.
It’s not. This is typical journalism these days. I.e write an article that just throws in random, tenuously related facts that have nothing to do with the actual story. It doesn’t surprise me, as proof reading my fellow students papers. Writing is a unique skill, and it is one that very few people do well, and one that most people do poorly.
McDonald’s tried to rob the Burger King!
Laquan?
“The alderman was also barred from having contact with his dog Rambo.”
Why? Is there a claim he beat the dog?
He’s expendable?
Rambo is the key witness for the state.
Shame that speech impediment makes it impossible for anyone to understand him.
Man, that’s ruff!
Gee, why do people think that progs are power-mad scum? Its such a mystery.
The historical and political ignorance of supposed intellectuals shouldn’t shock me at this point, I guess.
Cooke had a field day with making Orts look like a stupid ass.
This isn’t even wrong. Jesus fuck.
First, consider that Article V applies only to amendments. Congress would adopt the Rule of One Hundred scheme as a statute; let’s call it the Senate Reform Act. Because it’s legislation rather than an amendment, Article V would—arguably—not apply.
A professor at an Ivy League school wrote that with a straight face, apparently.
Constitutional originalists will surely argue that the Founders meant “equal suffrage” in Article V to mean one state, two senators, now and forever. But the Founders could never have imagined the immense expansion of the United States in terms of territory, population, and diversity of its citizens.
Right, because the states at ratification time were all mirror images of each other and had been since they were founded as colonies.
Lol, what a disingenuous (or completely retarded) asshole.
And the fact that they created the Senate with equal representation exactly because of the imbalance in populations. No way small states would have joined without this compromise. You could even call it a Great Compromise. Of course, you’d have to have some iota of historical literacy to do so.
Gotcha. @ 10:31
Welcome to: The United Vaguely Differentiated Areas of America.
Let’s undo the single biggest compromise that kept the country together this long. The civil war would start immediately after that.
“Today the voting power of a citizen in Wyoming, the smallest state in terms of population, is about 67 times that of a citizen in the largest state of California, and the disparities among the states are only increasing. The situation is untenable.”
That’s not what “untenable” means.
If one wishes to have the voting power of a Wyoming citizen, one could always, you know, move to Wyoming.
Long term Wyoming residents might come looking for you for that comment HM.
I’m trying to get them to not move to NH.
Wyoming has fewer residents than the federal government has employees.
You have to admire megalomaniacs for their endless ability to find the smallest populations and blame them for all the problems outside of their populations.
It’s SOP for Californians who continue to blame the Republicans for everything wrong int he state. I just was reminded of this by a Californian acquaintance who continues to rant about how the Republicans are preventing California from fixing all the problems. He actually believes that shit.
Good problem statement. I doubt they’ll correctly identify the real issue.
What’s the old saying about ideas so stupid that only intellectuals would give them serious consideration?
Apparently math isn’t a thing they teach anymore? Nor the concept of Federalism? How does giving each state one senator then giving the rest based on population preserve Federalism? By definition, you are basing it on population. I guess we should be happy the ‘small’ states get to have a senator (Thank you sir! May I have another?) I told my wife I should stop reading at that point, but it’s like a car wreck, I couldn’t turn away…
The Path to Give California 12 Senators, and Vermont Just One
Something…strange…happened. Anyway, it appears they want another house of reps. in another attempt to destroy the relevance of state boundaries and the structure of the Republic. They want a pure democracy because they think the masses will vote their way. They have not even considered that they may be wrong. Democracy is good as long as they are getting what they want. Fucking ‘tards.
In 1995, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan declared, “Sometime in the next century the United States is going to have to address the question of apportionment in the Senate.”
We need to return to having State legislatures do the appointing because the Senate is supposed to be the House of the States.
Fabulous Friday features females with fantastic fronts!
http://archive.vn/pzqh6
7 (obviously), 23, 30, 35, 39.
Does Bill Murray own that site or something?
The Kerala police have arrested 1,369 persons from across the state so far in connection with the violence reported during hartal on Thursday. Section 144 has been imposed in Nedumangad and Valiyamala police station limits for three days. Stay with us for live updates.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/sabarimala-row-dawn-to-dusk-hartal-today/liveblog/67358711.cms
Women man always starting shit
But teh USA is a hellish PATRIARCHY!
Exhibit A of the importance of the separation of church and state.
“Whoever thought having the college football “championship game” in the bay area completely fucked up.”
Better hurry up and cover those seats before they fill up with homeless people, feces and used heroin needles.
The other funny thing is that they’re marketing the game with pics of the Golden Gate Bridge and other parts of San Francisco. Nevermind that those places are probably a good 90 minutes from the game venue.
They ought to use images of San Jose sub/urban sprawl if they want to be accurate.
RE: Pregnant coma lady.
She was really asking for it with the way she was wearing that gastric feeding tube.
Isn’t this the plot to the actual Sleeping Beauty story?
How much do they feed people who’ve been vegitative for a decade that no one got suspicious?
Pretty sure at least one of them knew.
TBF, lying down the bump sinks. But you might think they would test her blood every once in a while.
To be fair, they just thought it was Jimmy the midget intern under the covers humping her.
Um, I was wondering the same thing. 1. No one knew – sounds suspicious since 35 lbs fora pregnancy is average 2. She missed her period and no one knew? I imagine she still had one while vegetative.
I think weight gain in pregnancy is mostly driven by the whole YOU GO GIRL EATING FOR TWO HERES TWO SUNDAES bullshit.
The human race successfully reproduced for millennia without women being able to eat a family sized bag of Cheesy Poofs at 2 AM to “feed their baby”
You know that female fertility is driven by pre-conception fat storage, right? And that every mammal gains 2x to 3x the fetus weight during pregnancy.
looks like 15-35 lbs is the recommendation for most women
Which for Humans means somewhere between 12-25 lbs. Which is not really that much weight. People in long term comas are pretty much doomed to be flabby.
But that weight gain doesn’t come from the thin air. It comes from consuming those surplus calories.
A woman in a coma on a feeding tube would have no way of consuming them. Just like any number of women throughout history were unable to access excess calories in times of famine or war, and yet had a succesful pregnancy.
No, actually, women through history did not have nearly the rate of successful pregnancies during famine and war as during good times.
Miscarriage rates went up and fertility went down. Pre-agricultural societies were very sensitive to excess calorie availability, with entire communities being barren for a few years, then entire communities getting pregnant all at once.
They weren’t eating 2AM cheeseypoofs. But they were eating a disproportionate amount of the temporary excess calories in their environment – women binge in times of plenty much more than men. This is true across species and before modernity.
Putting on more weight during pregnancy leads to fewer dead babies. Saying “YOU GO GIRL EATING FOR TWO HERES TWO SUNDAES bullshit” leads to fewer dead babies.
The cut off point where more weight leads to fewer dead babies is something like 50 lbs for a modern woman. Anything up to that, and the trend is for more live births at full term.
But the issue with American infants nowadays is not underfeeding during pregnancy leading to low birth weights and associated health issues, it’s just the opposite. It’s rising rates of gestational diabetes and rising rates of miscarriages and rising rates of preclampsia driven at least in part by the rising weight of the average American.
When a woman who is already overweight gets pregnant, she doesn’t need to gain any more weight. She has plenty of surplus weight to aid in gestation.
This is one of the things I do not get about people. Who would do this? Where is the enjoyment of sex with someone that is basically non responsive?
You’re not married, are you?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/fifth_amendment
Are you saying she is private property be taken for public use?
I mean, I guess that works too.
I mean I assume there is some American thing I don’t get at play cause I don’t see the connection
Pat is invoking his fifth amendment right against self-incrimination.
Oh. Now I get it
This one is teed up quite nicely
“Where is the enjoyment of sex with someone that is basically non responsive?”
Change “someone” to “something” and you just described masturbating while watching porn on a computer.
That sock was practically begging for it.
People pay thousands of dollars for Real Doll.
Pretty sure that a live non responsive woman would still be preferable to masturbation for the average man.
TW: Washington Post
For Nancy Pelosi and the new women in Congress, fashion was a defiant statement of purpose — and resistance
Hmmm. I thought Burkas were the fashion of the #Resistance.
Costing your party seats? Having temper tantrums? Enacting more terrible legislation?
Pelosi noted that no one is indispensable, “but some of us are just better at our jobs than others.” That wasn’t overconfident swagger. It was honest.
Trump’s boorish and unpresidential tone is our great national shame though, donchaknow.
Polite smiles and resassuring deference? That wasn’t my experience in the US.
Christ, what an asshole!
World’s best cities, 2019. 1. London 2. Paris 3. New York City 4. Tokyo 5. Barcelona 6. Moscow 7. Chicago 8. Singapore 9. Dubai 10. San Francisco (Resonance Consultancy)
https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1080886510705131520
Discuss
A: Don’t tell me what to do.
B: A number of those cities are literal shitholes, and thus cannot be among the ‘best’.
Well they’re great – provided you stay where the rich people stay.
Twatter;dc
The author of the list obviously has different criteria than I do.
Define “best”
Largest number high end restaurants and high end escorts?
By Jove, I think you nailed it. Because it sure isn’t affordability, crime or cleanliness.
https://youtu.be/2TJmF1Lo5fU
For the modern cosmopolitan sophisticate who doesn’t stray from the well-worn path between the first class lounge at the airport and the Ritz, it’s probably true. For the people living in the burned out remains of the suburbs that look like a fucking Rio favela, maybe not so much.
Sorry, but there’s only one city on that list that has Soapland. Ranking is wrong on that alone.
How many cities have soaplands that would allow you inside?
Be nice. I gotta make a living however I can.
Oh, no, I was asking so I can plan my vacation to Japan.
I can get you a job, but you have to start at the bottom.
I had no idea there were pinsaros for the other side.
I would live in 3 if single and rich, 5 pretty much whenever.
On a budget of $200/day or less all those cities are hell on Earth. crowded, unclean, dangerous. On a budget of $5000/day and up those cities are paradise filled with beautiful women looking to connect with power and wealth, the best chefs, penthouse views, and exotic attractions.
You could get a nice, modern, clean apt for $800 a month here. Won’t be huge, but livable. Food isn’t expensive and the train is cheap. You could easily live here comfortably on $200 a day.
Discuss
I don’t see any Latin American or African cities on that list: therefor this list is problematic. Also, ranking things is problematic, as it implies superiority and inferiority. In fact, lists themselves are problematic as they are by nature not inclusive.
Off the top ropes with some social justice!
Harris, Hirono accused of anti-Catholic ‘bigotry’ for targeting Knights of Columbus
Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Catholic church?
Hirono should have been censured over her performance during the Kavanaugh hearings.
There is nothing ‘Extreme’ about the positions taken by the Knights of Colombus. They are a very middle of the road Catholic organization. However much a California nutjob might dislike the fact that the default Catholic doctrine is pro-life, that doesn’t render this very common stance ‘extreme’.
You know what other group was Anti-Catholic, and populated with members of the Democratic party.
The Southern Baptist Convention ca. 1930?
The Southern Baptist Convention ca. 1978?
Don’t let them find out that women aren’t allowed to be priests in the Catholic Church!
They also don’t allow men to be nuns.
But they won’t care about that. That just preserves the nuns from the patriarchy.
Yes they do, they’re called Brothers. Christian Brothers have a brand of wine.
“And I said, ‘Baby, they don’t.’ Because we’re gonna go in there and impeach the motherfucker.”
She said that to her little boy? Mom of The Year.
The making of Woke Kids.
But did she look back when the house exploded behind her?
The 100-year capitalist experiment that keeps Appalachia poor, sick, and stuck on coal
https://qz.com/1167671/the-100-year-capitalist-experiment-that-keeps-appalachia-poor-sick-and-stuck-on-coal/
Whatever view one takes on this, these long articles are full of unsupported assertions. They are little more than preaching to the choir, for people who already believe these things to nod and say wow so true.
“The experiment underway in central Appalachia began with subsidizing coal by suppressing household wealth. To the local politicians who sponsored this strategy, the idea was that making conditions favorable to outside corporations would develop the local economy, creating jobs and enriching residents. How has that played out?” – this is asserted in the article and not particularly expanded upon beyond some “schools are underfunded” later on. Subsidies are often mentioned but not so much described. What subsidies would be interesting to know.
What subsidies would be interesting to know.
Ask Ron Bailey. If you squint and count FASB-standard depreciation tables as subsidies, then you can almost get there.
Meanwhile, the direct subsidies and transfer payments without which the entire solar and wind industry would literally not exist should play no role in our evaluation of those technologies.
Are they implying that these people are prohibited from moving to another region or working in another field? Because, you know, that’s a lie.
I’ve read by commentators on both the far left and the far right, that expecting people to move or otherwise alter their available opportunities is victim blaming, and that things as they are now, or the recent past, should stay that way forever.
Far right: “We will not be replaced” Far left: “We will replace and then not be replaced”
A primary reason these places are like that is that the productive and capable do move, leaving behind the dregs.
Government meddling into business screws people over.
I’m going to have to go “shocked face” shopping I’ve worn mine out.
To the local politicians who sponsored this strategy, the idea was that making conditions favorable to outside corporations would develop the local economy, creating jobs and enriching residents. How has that played out?
It had worked out very well in my area. Everyone had good-paying jobs in the factories which led to jobs in supporting services (food, entertainment, supporting trades). The economy was booming. Then the corporations pulled out and outsourced all the manufacturing overseas. Employment fell through the floor and subsequently crime and drug use rose. The area is a mere shell compared to what it once was.
The town is now full of dozens of abandoned factories. The town tries it’s best to lure in new employers, but I’ve heard current EPA regs make it financially impossible for anyone to buy and try to upgrade these old factories.
Hillbilly culture is a capitalist experiment?
Who knew?!?
shhhh……
If you talk about it, you’ll skew the outcomes.
1) What the fuck does the 49’s quarterback have to do with this article?
2) Anyone that thinks the problem with coal country are “unbridled capitalism” has never spent time with the Scotch-Irish or looked at the migration habits of social capitol (hint – all the dysfunctional ones stay, all the functional ones leave).
So subsidies are now a capitalist thing?
“Fix” the Senate = Give Dems more control.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/heres-how-fix-senate/579172/?fbclid=IwAR3aW-ix-q30IH-sJbtVcUshFPmgnESZ7JxEbWi6UfCS5pI8z0DIxcH_oq8
I like how Getting rid of Equally apportioned representation will return America to a democracy… since you know that one time when we had senators that were apportioned like the House.
which gets to the other point. State Apportionment is the Whole damn point of the Senate. The only reason this is coming up now is because the democrats don’t control the Senate.
“Constitutional originalists will surely argue that the Founders meant “equal suffrage” in Article V to mean one state, two senators, now and forever. But the Founders could never have imagined the immense expansion of the United States in terms of territory, population, and diversity of its citizens.”
Founders lack of creativity would be a good argument that the constitution should be amendable (which it is). But the fact that the US is bigger in geography than they imagined does not itself support the conclusion.
So…Amend the Constitution, idiot.
“First, consider that Article V applies only to amendments. Congress would adopt the Rule of One Hundred scheme as a statute; let’s call it the Senate Reform Act. Because it’s legislation rather than an amendment, Article V would—arguably—not apply.”
He argues that you can’t do this by amendment, because the constitution forbids it. So just doing it through Legislation will be enough…
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
You can do it via Amendment. Article V just says you have to have all 50 States agree (or possibly that any State losing Senators has to agree, but I’d argue even States keeping both are losing ‘equal suffrage if others gain Senators so probably all 50)
So just doing it through Legislation will be enough
That is the opposite relationship the founding charter has with legislation passed under it.
*peruses Article 1’s list of enumerated powers*
Oddly, I don’t see “re-apportion the Senate” as an enumerated power.
Plus, I don’t see how you can read the 17th Amendment and re-apportion the Senate without another amendment:
In the same way that you can read the 18th and 21st amendments and then ban other drugs without an amendment.
But the fact that the US is bigger in geography than they imagined does not itself support the conclusion.
And considering how rapidly the US was expanding at the time of its founding, it’s absurd to think that such forward-thinking people as the founders did not anticipate this. A new state was added within four years of the Constitution being adopted, and the number of states and amount of territory had almost doubled by the time Jefferson and Adams died (and the population tripled over the same time frame).
Not only that, the fact that the US is bigger in geography is a reason not to go with this plan. Senators are apportioned the way they are to give states enough of a voice that they don’t want to secede. Start making large areas of the country completely irrelevant to electoral politics, and you are setting the stage for those areas to not want to be part of the US.
The big state/small state dynamic was absolutely present at the founding. The country was created because people did not want to be ruled by a government in which they did not have adequate representation. The Founders did not want to see that dynamic played out again, with a government entirely under the control of a handful of large states, ruling smaller states.
That’s like saying “the Founders could never have imagined populous states like Virginia and Pennsylvania lording over the rest”, i.e. complete hogwash.
Not only could they foresee it, they specifically made the Senate makeup the hardest thing in the Constitution to Amend because they foresaw the call for changing it.
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/A_Great_Compromise.htm
The issue of representation, however, threatened to destroy the seven-week-old convention. Delegates from the large states believed that because their states contributed proportionally more to the nation’s financial and defensive resources, they should enjoy proportionally greater representation in the Senate as well as in the House. Small-state delegates demanded, with comparable intensity, that all states be equally represented in both houses. When Sherman proposed the compromise, Benjamin Franklin agreed that each state should have an equal vote in the Senate in all matters—except those involving money.
Over the Fourth of July holiday, delegates worked out a compromise plan that sidetracked Franklin’s proposal. On July 16, the convention adopted the Great Compromise by a heart-stopping margin of one vote. As the 1987 celebrants duly noted, without that vote, there would likely have been no Constitution.
he fact that the US is bigger in geography than they imagined does not itself support the conclusion.
I have heard this non-argument with regards to guns and speech as well. I don;t see how one should lose rights just because there are some arbitrary umber of people or size of territory, nor do I see how this should effect the Senate and State appointment of senators. Create a new State, get two new senators.
That crazy scheme to split up California seems like an easier route to grabbing more power for themselves than fiddling with the Senate. As long as they carefully construct the borders so that each new state is ruled by one of the population centers like SF or LA.
Me and my quarter-life crisis: a millennial asks what went wrong
I’ll admit the second sentence got a snort out of me.
Hey, get your own! *cuts new line*
The presumption that your average middle-aged male has a secretary or a jag tells you everything you need to know about that writer.
I’ve never had a secretary. And only the very top-level execs here have an admin assistant.
The days – like the old man, who had two secretaries – are mostly long gong due to the computer.
*gone
manifests itself in me wanting to run away; to start again; or bury myself in anything that will distract me from my own reality.
This isn’t a quarter life crisis, this is called regretting your piss poor decision making skills
Our childhood visions for our lives, moulded by listening to parental anecdotes of their milestones and reinforced by TV and films, are no longer realistic.
Bullshit to the extreme. Your problem is that your parents were too busy buying you and your high school buddies booze to be the cool parents that they forgot to teach you how to succeed.
4 things to succeed in modern America:
1) don’t get a college degree in something stupid
2) be willing to move to where the jobs are
3) actually work hard
4) live on less than you earn. Period.
(Yes I realize it’s a British publication … roll with it)
Bullshit to the extreme.
Not really. If you compare historical ratios of income to just about any type of property in this country, they’re 2 or 3 factors different now than they were even 40 years ago. For a generation of people told by their parents, every school teacher, every media and entertainment outlet, that if you go to school you’ll have a successful life with all of the accoutrements of such, yeah, that was a bill of goods. Your credentials are utterly valueless in most cases, and you’d need to be earning 175% more than your parents did at the same point in their careers in order to purchase the same goods. There’s no denying that Millennials were by and large lied to, deliberately or not. An undergrad degree as a ticket to middle management, 3 bedroom houses and luxury sedans is no longer realistic.
depends on the degree (and the individual), doesn’t it?
I know the days when my old man, who dropped out of college after one year, was promoted at the same company – beginning as a shoe salesman and ending up as a top-level exec, are getting quite rare. Different times – credentialism seems a lot more rampant now.
Well, yes, of course, there will always be individual exceptions to every rule, but take your typical middle class suburban white kid who went to East State University and got his undergrad degree in, say, business admin. Based on the common narrative at the time, that poor stupid bastard probably thought he’d graduate, get hired to be part of a “dynamic team” in some mid market technology firm and end up managing a department by the time he was 40. And for 90% of those poor stupid bastards, that’s a joke. It was never, ever that rosy to begin with, even in the best of times, but that’s the sort of picture that student advisors, college admissions officers, corporate recruiters, and dumbfuck parents were painting for anybody with a C average or better who could fill out a FAFSA packet.
Hierarchies have always been pyramid shaped. The path for most was always get hired slog along maybe getting a promotion or two and then plateau, There has never been, and can never be a time when everyone hired at entry level has a path that ends with them the CEO.
For a generation of people told by their parents, every school teacher, every media and entertainment outlet, that if you go to school you’ll have a successful life with all of the accoutrements of such, yeah, that was a bill of goods.
As somebody who was fed that bill of goods, I get it. However, that’s not this kid’s argument. Despite his assertion, no generation has ever been able to graduate into upper middle class lifestyle. He’s comparing his life at 25 to his parents’ lives at 40.
That’s why its bullshit to the extreme. My parents lived in an apartment for a few years before they bought a starter house. My grandparents lived in apartments before buying starter houses. My great grandparents lived in apartments most of their lives.
There are plenty of houses available for less than $100k. They’re a bit run down and they’re in flyover country, but with some TLC, they’ll become decent starter homes. You think that anybody is going to be turned down for a $80k loan if they come with $20k down, a full-time job and a reasonable amount of debt?
I’m one of the most critical people when it comes to the education track today. However, let’s not pretend that these kids were forced into performing poorly in high school, resulting in having to pay more to go to college, choosing a worthless major, and graduating with a shitty GPA. Then they expect to immediately have their parents lifestyle after 15 years of hoofing it.
Us millennials were sold a bill of goods. However, those of us that worked hard and spent more time studying during high school and college than drinking and fucking ended up with decent outcomes. It’s the kids who were first in line at the bar on Tuesday night and slept in a different bed every night of the week who are struggling to find gainful employment
There is also a huge skew to millenial’s perception because of the massive expansion in household debt in the 90’s and 00’s. Everybody was buying a 3500 sqft transitional home in a tract development with a jacuzzi. That was and is unsustainable, yet the perception and expectation was created among a host of young people.
He’s comparing his life at 25 to his parents’ lives at 40.
That’s a fair cop, maybe. But His parents at 25 were in a markedly better situation as well, if he and his parents are anything like the average. Compared to genx and boomers, millennials are worse off at the same stages of life, and this is the first time in a while where that’s been the case. On top of that ridiculous educational narrative, you’ve also got this entire generation inculcated with this colossal entitlement complex as well. And that’s the combination that gives you a guy in his mid 20s having an existential crisis because he found out that Full House wasn’t real.
Compared to genx and boomers, millennials are worse off at the same stages of life, and this is the first time in a while where that’s been the case.
IMO, this isn’t due to lack of opportunity. The article shows some of the reason why. The girl mentioned graduated at 24 with almost $40k in undergrad student debt. Conveniently, it fails to mention what illustrious degree she has that has landed her an $18k a year pizza tossing job and an apartment that she shares with her live-in boyfriend.
Maybe if she had graduated in 4 years with at least 2 years done at community college in a degree with some semblance of job prospects, she’d be doing something more fulfilling than making pizza for $18k a year.
We may have been sold the lie that college is the pathway to success, but nobody told us to major in worthless majors and fuck around during school instead of actually doing well.
How odd. I was making $24k at my job during college (helpdesk phone answering). My next job after graduation bumped me up to $45k.
Oh, wait, I did some of what you were suggesting (no CC, so I had $54k in loans, but paid those off on time)
I wonder how much of this can be traced to people having kids later in life. I distinctly recall my parents first house (after leaving base housing in the Marines). It was quite modest. But if you are born when your parents are in their thirties, you probably aren’t going to remember their starter home or have any experience with their just-getting-started lifestyle.
And make no mistake: millenials have been hosed, not just by the higher ed scam, but by a historically weak economy throughout the Obama years.
Oh, wait, I did some of what you were suggesting (no CC, so I had $54k in loans, but paid those off on time)
The great thing about all the opportunity today is that you can be less than ideal in one or more category and still come out on top. I’m currently in $160k of student debt. However, I’ve owned a house since I was 25, been married since I was 24, and had a kid at 28. Oh, and I don’t blame anybody but myself for that student debt. It was a lack of foresight on my part combined with a young couple trying to paper over an unexpectedly difficult stretch of life with student loan money.
IMO, this isn’t due to lack of opportunity.
I think partly it is. Credentialism and licensing has walled off huge parts of the job market that were accessible with little or no formal training in bygone times. But the proliferation of debt and monetary policy are the biggest drivers, I would argue.
But if you are born when your parents are in their thirties, you probably aren’t going to remember their starter home or have any experience with their just-getting-started lifestyle.
This is very true, but it also indicates a deficit of parenting – not in the parents having children late, but in them not talking to their kids about history and setting reasonable expectations. I’m a millennial whose parents were late 20s/early 30s when I was born, and yet I am well aware that I am better off at my age than my parents were at their age who were better off than their parents were at their age. I know this not through experience (obviously), but because my parents talked about these things. And I’m better off than my parents were because they didn’t sugar-coat things and talked about how to be successful and how to fail. And they made it clear that if I chose to fail (as opposed to merely being a victim of misfortune) that they would not bail me out, but if I chose to succeed they would help me out. In my experience, parenting makes a huge difference.
And make no mistake: millenials have been hosed, not just by the higher ed scam, but by a historically weak economy throughout the Obama years.
Yep. I don’t want my vociferous bashing of the entitlement of millennials to hide the fact that the parents and other role models of millennials fucked up really bad with the higher ed scam. I don’t want to hide the fact that even in 2011, when I graduated, most of the other electrical engineers with a median GPA were taking the first (only) job they could find. I don’t want to hide the fact that a majority of the law school class I graduated with is still making less than $70k a year and has over $180k in student loans.
Oddly enough, that also applied to Gen-Xers.
#2
You are assuming I want a job
#3
Hahahaha
“this is called regretting your piss poor decision making skills”
Which are easier to correct when one is age 26 versus age 44. But he’d rather bitch and moan like an 80-year old.
Most eighty-year olds I know are not big complainers.
I assume you never worked retail.
Hell no, I know better than that.
Why do you think I sought a career path that avoided contact with the general public.
No, you couldn’t. You could rent a shitty place with some roommates.
When I got out of college I could afford a mortgage, but my credit was so poor that I looked like a bad risk for one. Instead I was stuck renting at a higher rate than the monthlies on a modest mortgage until my credit score improved.
+1 Lincoln Park
Plus mortgage rates were around 12%.
Also, I couldn’t qualify for a credit card until I had a full-time job. I could get a charge card, which required payment in full each month plus an annual fee. That was usually step 1 in establishing a credit history.
No kidding. *nobody* I knew in the 80s got a mortgage right out of school. My mom had to get a new house because of the divorce, and her mortgage in 1982 was 11% or 12%. My student loans were at the rock-bottom rate of 9%.
Shorter version of article: WAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!
Bingo. My parents’ first home purchase was in 1982, when dad was 31 and mom was 28. They’d been married for seven years and parents for six, but given the astronomical interest rates of the time (think it was closer to 18%, not 12%) they couldn’t afford to buy until then.
I was 48 when I bought my first house. The kids were long gone by then.
Someone even older than me that I work with used to work for a mortgage company in the 80’s. She saw a couple people put their down payment on their credit cards because the interest rate was lower. In a sane world that could not happen, except that credit card interest rates are “regulated”.
*types comment, rereads comment being replied to, deletes original comment*
I was briefly confused because of the other conversaion about people ine their eighties and missed that his was talking about people in the eighties.
No probably not, as they still generally required 20% down for a mortgage back then. You shared an apartment with a friend for a few years while you saved up a down payment.
The chance of crippling student loan debt was low though, so it had that going for it.
In Chicago you either rented with friends or when married, bought a 2 or 3 flat – then you rented out the other uint(s) until you had kid #1, then you sold, rolled your equity into starter home/bungalow…then moved up later on.
You must be a north sider. You had to be connected to buy a three flat on the south side – or stupid enough to take the Section 8 risk.
North or Northwest sides. True.
On the one hand, there’s a certain amount of truth in there that you can sympathize with on some level. I know everybody over 40 is a bootstrapping rugged individualist who walked uphill both ways in the snow, only to drop out in the 6th grade and work their way from the mailroom to the boardroom on the back of 165 hour work weeks when they were 20-somethings, but the world is markedly different today than it was in the past, nearly entirely for the worse. Yes, Millennials are whinging cunts about it, but then so were genx and the boomers, the only difference being that standards if living were on a hockeystick trajectory when they were throwing their collective tantrums in the deans offices of the ’60s and the WTO meetings of the ’90s. Every generational cohort has some novel-to-them complaint.
On the other hand, you’re a couple generations removed from a generational cohort who were conscripted to go fight a war in the European theater and managed to return home and live normal lives. And you’re one generation removed from a generational cohort who were conscripted to go fight a war in the jungles of Vietnam and managed to return home and live normal lives. By comparison, racking up a lot of student debt and not being able to afford nice cars is relatively trivial.
That was an extremely limited phenomenon that only was notable because Seattle was “cool” at the time.
Here’s my advice for him: grow up, pussy.
Starting again is what 26 is about. For God’s sake stop whining that you haven’t found happiness at 26. At 26 you are at your physical peak and are starting (or at least are supposed to be starting) to develop some skills, wisdom and understanding. You are young and energetic enough to start from scratch, and are beginning to have the understanding that lets you choose where to start more intelligently. Call me when you wake up at 50 hating what you do and realize that the ‘starting again’ window is pretty much closed for business.
He can go on a rumspringa.
Wild Eyes — the sailboat abandoned by American Abby Sunderland in her failed bid to circumnavigate the world solo as a 16-year-old — has been found floating off of Australia’s coast, nearly nine years after she was rescued in the Indian Ocean.
Seeing her boat again brought back a flood of emotions, says Sunderland, who is now 25.
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/03/681877909/sailboat-from-u-s-teens-doomed-record-attempt-is-found-drifting-off-australia
Faaaake. No Australian place would be named ‘Kangaroo Island’.
Four kids in Nine years, probably biased towards the latter half of those nine? She’s been busy.
The boat should get an award and recognition.
Sounds like Abby was holding the boat back.
Will Australia be fining her for littering?
Maybe sloopy has grown complacent like Bama and Clemson fans, but if my school was in the title game, I would be there and would be appreciating the cheap ticket prices.
And knowing how bowl stuff works, we would be blamed for the low ticket sales instead of the venue.
I am thoroughly confused by the bowls. The only thing i understood was that a bull tried to gore a bulldog. Bad look for the bull dog
uga is an ass and deserved any goring it got.
The bowl system is … odd, and cannot be explained in any logical way to someone who didn’t grow up with it. And honestly, I can logically explain it to myself either.
People who support the bowl system over a 16 team m(or more! FCS is 24, D2 is 28, D3 is 32) playoff are literally worse than Hitler
I’m all for preserving the top 15 bowls. .. as stops for the various games in the 16 team tourney.
If the rest of the bowls want to get together for some sort of NIT tourney, they’re more than welcome.
No, the first two rounds should be played on campus as a reward for being highly ranked. Top 4 get 2 home games, 5-8 get one.
Semis on new years day, finals approximately 1 year later.
My wacky idea also keeps the bowl games, but they are moved to Labor Day Weekend. Which is already happening, as Atlanta, Orlando, Dallas host games that weekend already. Everyone plays in a bowl that weekend. The traditional championship matchups can be kept: Rose is previous year Pac v B1G champs. SEC champ goes to Sugar, ACC champ to Orange, etc. The rest of the bowls are all at-large like it used to be. Notre Dame would probably rotate around the major bowls, Sugar/Orange/Cotton/repeat.
It opens up venues that arent current bowl venues. The Pinstripe Bowl is actually a good thing, as a game in NYC is appealing in September. Green Bay could be a bowl venue and a good one. Ditto Seattle, Denver, etc.
There would be 65 bowls played between Thurs and Mon. It would be footballpalooza. Fans could plan travel and vacations around them well in advance instead of the few weeks prep they have now.
I must be underestimating people’s ability to watch the Cheez-It Bowl, but I cannot understand how there are so many bowls and how any of them outside the top 10 make money.
ESPN owns most of the smaller bowls. It gives them content at a very low price.
Most don’t.
I want a 16 team playoff. 5 auto bids for P5 conference champs and the rest at large. And the first round at a venue close to/ at home for one of them.
10 autobids, there is no difference between conferences except perception. 6 at large. First two rounds at home field of better seed.
Plus let Bama beat up on Troy or NIU in the first round.
MY TEAM IS STRONG IN FOOTBALLZ, MUST HAVE PALYOFF!!!! SKREW EVERYONE ELSE!!!
Are you being forced to watch, buy tickets or care?
Maybe the entire rest of the NCAA outside of a small handful of football factories would like a nice little trip to a game. When State U get to play College of Over There, in a nice warm venue in late December, the alumni club and tourists show up, the networks get some shows, the town gets a few bucks in the pockets of the bartenders, innkeepers and restaurant owners. And the locals get to shake their heads at 40,000 people bumbling around in their school colors.
Why does anyone get heartburn over this?
My big issue with the bowl system is how they are screwing over the schools. The amount of money that goes to the schools vs what is generated by the bowls is tiny. The bowl committee members make huge money for doing a job for a few weeks a year.
As much as I despise the NCAA, they get the basketball tourney revenue to the schools.
Who says the schools have to accept? When Northern Illinois University took the Orange Bowl invite a while back, they “lost money” on the game….and their fundraising from donors went through the roof. Net WINNING.
“Why does anyone get heartburn over this?”
Because they are hillbillies and/or Democrats.
“I am thoroughly confused by the bowls”
It was devised and supported by Socialists (mostly Southern Baptist Democrats) trying to stop Notre Dame because they hate Catholics and want their elementary schools for adults to get a trophy even if they lost 5 games out of 11. Back when it was a real school, the University Of Chicago told them all to go fuck themselves.
I might have over-simplified it but that’s the gist of it.
Bama fans have had eight playoff games in a four year period. This trip is probably the most expensive one of the bunch, plus it’s in the fucking Bay Area, so I can understand their fans who say “Nah, maybe next year”.
We went to the semifinal and title game when OSU won it. And went to the Clemson bloodbath in PHX and had planned to go to the championship game if they’d have made it.
And we would have gone this year if the committee hadn’t fucked up and put the wrong teams in at 3 and 4.
It took the B1G having their 1 loss champ left out 2 years in a row, but I think we’ll finally see discussion ramp up on expanding to 8 or 16 teams.
You all should have been 5 over Georgia.
But other than that, don’t get blown out by a 6-7 Purdue team. Oklahoma lost to Texas. That is a reasonable loss. Notre Dame was undefeated, sure their schedule this year wasn’t spectacular, but they didnt lose to Purdue either.
With a 16 team playoff it wouldn’t have mattered, you all would have been in.
Notre Dame was undefeated, sure their schedule this year wasn’t spectacular, but they didnt lose to Purdue either.
Because they don’t schedule us often anymore due to their defacto joining of the ACC.
Purdue was 3-7 against unranked teams this year and 3-0 against ranked teams.
Purdue lost to Northwestern who were ranked at the end of the season. It really doesn’t matter if a team was ranked at the moment the game was played because the ranking is 100% bullshit at the beginning of the season, as opposed to only 50% bullshit at the end of the season.
In tired of the discussion always gravitating to the one loss rather than the quality wins.
Oklahoma had one win worth a shit. And they got to play that team twice to get it. OSU had two wins better than theirs and had a defense that at least showed up occasionally.
As for Notre Dame, they shouldn’t get credit for being undefeated when their schedule is subpar. Their performance in NY6 games is a fucking joke. They should join a conference or just go away.
If they shit the bed to Purdue, why wouldn’t they shit the bed to Clemson. Hell, they almost quit too early in the game they did play.
Someone is still salty about a flag-planting.
Speaking of subpar undefeated teams, I would have put UCF in the tourney last year.
And maybe this year.
Considering that it will be 50 years before a west coast team makes the NC game, they should just have it in Atlanta every year. Lots of hotels and transportation connections, and guaranteed sellout every time.
Liz Cheney may be a clown but I agree with her on this.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/liz-cheney-urges-democrats-keep-talking-americans-know-how-radical/
The problem with that is that the only people who find the Democrats’ platform radical are people who will have aged out of the voting pool in 20 years. They overplayed their hand in 2016 based on a bad reading of the demographics, but they weren’t wrong, just too early.
“Congress’s dancing queen! Alexandria Oscasio-Cortez cuts loose in resurfaced viral video homage to The Breakfast Club, leaving people VERY divided over the socialist hero’s moves”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6555667/Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-seen-dancing-resurfaced-viral-video-college-days.html
I won’t be surprised if this is still “news” next week.
It’s a kid acting like a kid. Who cares?
Yeah, there’s plenty of legitimate shit to criticize and mock.
No shit, the right is making the same mistake the rabid antiTrumpers make.
Are they though? I haven’t seen anybody from the right criticize the video. All I’ve heard are leftists chiding the right for criticizing it…in the vaguest terms possible since they have no actual criticism to point to.
You mean the left is being dishonest? Shocked, I am…
I’ll take your word for it. I just assumed the left’s bellyaching was a reaction to a real thing. I should have known better.
Some kooky baby boomer account that no one has ever heard of tweeted an impotent diatribe against it, so I guess that’s representative of the entire American right as far as the media is concerned.
The media better be careful not to catch something by kissing her ass so much.
They’ve already caught something and the cure for that fever is more socialism.
I thought the cure was more cowbell?
Socialist cowbell, Chips, socialist cowbell.
I’ll be, it’s a thing
Is a socialist cowbell where the connected loyal party member gets the cowbell and all you get is the dong?
Da.
Pre-nups apparently = toilet paper.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6518583/Estranged-wife-ex-racing-driver-WINS-right-not-left-11m-fortune.html
Given the numbers listed, she was already getting a disproportionate amount of money. It’s time to invoke article five of the Code of Hammurabi and throw the ‘Lady Justice’ off the bench.
Pre-Nups are a Patriarchal tool to keep women from getting back what is rightfully theirs.
Whatever view one takes on this, these long articles are full of unsupported assertions.
Welcome to the world of 21st century journalism.
The quarter-life crisis, or my experience of it, manifests itself in me wanting to run away; to start again; or bury myself in anything that will distract me from my own reality.
Get yourself a mule, a big rifle, and some beaver traps, and head into the wilderness.
They should join the Coast Guard. Try to at least help other people once in a while…between bouts of self-pity, right?
I heard the Marines are looking for a few good men, they’ll distract your ass.
So while they’re busy with the donkey, make a run for the woods?
They’ll do something with your ass, for sure.
:ducks:
You think that whinger is a “good man”?
The vegetative state lady giving birth story has me thinking the me too movement just might have a point.
Ugh…
The Green New Deal Promises Peace and Progress. Will Nuclear Advocates Undermine it?
These pro-nuke arguments are echoed even by some self-proclaimed supporters of the Green New Deal. According to a report from DataforEnergy, principally written by Greg Carlock, at least part of the Green New Deal should be powered by “clean sources such as nuclear and remaining fossil fuel with carbon capture.”
Such rhetoric will be tested by advocates characterizing atomic energy as “clean.” Their fight for new reactor funding may quickly engulf much of the Green New Deal debate.
So will the struggle over the 98 U.S. reactors still licensed to operate. As they age, they continue to deteriorate and embrittle. Opponents of nuclear power want them shut down before they explode; advocates argue that without them, more fossil fuels will be burned.
Does it matter if nuclear reactors explode if climate change is going to kill us anyway?
Number of fatalities from nuclear incidents in the western world: 0
Even with the super-duper shitty reactor at chernobyl, they had to deliberately shut off every single safeguard and failsafe in order to get it to fail catastrophically.
We can build new, safe reactors able to use ‘spent’ fuel from the existing reactors – if only the Feds weren’t preventing it.
You have to be a special kind of stupid to be opposed to nuclear power in this day and age. It has been the cleanest and safest source of power ever devised.
It just proves that the people pushing the GND aren’t really concerned with carbon and the environment. Their ultimate goal is something else.
Not true. Add in the word “private” and its close to true, although the statistical increase in cancer deaths from TMI readiation release was about 0.5 so it depends which way you round on that one.
But the US government had some nuclear incidents with fatalities.
Yeah, should have left some wiggle room for the Demon Core.
I was thinking SL-1. Impaled and pinned to the ceiling is a bad way to go.
When it comes to increasing cancer incidence, nuclear has nothing on coal. Natural gas is fundamentally clean and much less expensive to develop because of regulatory issues though.
You’re correct but those were mostly criticality incidents in the early days that were due to inadequate procedures.
+1 Oak Ridge
Let my socialist grandmother explain to you how the Hanford site was poisoning her water… in fucking Spokane.
Assume I don’t know the geography involved and am too lazy to look it up. Is this even possible?
Invariably, it’s the Feds that were in charge of the worst environmental disasters. It’s the same with asbestos, the industry and shipyards knew of the health risks in WW2, but the Feds forcibly kept a lid on it so as to preserve the war effort.
Hanford is about 175 miles southwest of Spokane on the Columbia river, which in addition to flowing the wrong way also doesn’t flow into any of the tributaries for the Spokane area. So short answer, no, not possible.
I once interviewed for a job literally across the street from Hanford.
“Invariably, it’s the Feds that were in charge of the worst environmental disasters. ”
Yep. My Dad set up nuke experiments at Argonne Labs, which was a Fed operation budget-wise (even though U of C oversaw it). He used to shuttle between Chicago and Idaho in the early 70’s and then flat-out refused to show up at work in ’72 until the safety measures were improved, they tried ignoring him until he started bringing in the machinists union (which he really hated to do but it was the only threat that worked). That pretty much fucked-him career-wise although the Three Mile Island incident and subsequent creation of the Department Of Energy fucked everyone else anyway when suddenly the place was overrun with bureaucrats who suddenly loved safety because of how much it lined their pockets with non-work.
Yeah, they just blow up….
*facepalm*
They… they don’t….
*sigh*
Anyone who writes ill-informed drivel like this should be ignored. Any needle of valuable information they might transmit will be lost in a haystack of utter moronic bullshit.
“Before they explode”
More proof that they have zero, and I mean zero, understanding of what they’re talking about.
Well the land around Chernobyl is now a radiated wildlife preserve. So win-win?
And I assume the fauna there all have incredible super powers, because that’s how these things work.
+6 polyboars
In the rest of Eurasia, they only have mongoose. But in Chernobyl, they have polygoose.
“Opponents of nuclear power want them shut down before they explode;”
Opponents of nuclear power are fucking retarded, or being highly mendacious.
Also the if goal of the Green New Deal is to transfer off of carbon completely, you know in order stop global warming, then Nuclear is your only real viable option. Taking it off the table is at best just arguing in bad faith.
If you read through the Green New Deal, it should really underscore how “Democratic Socialism” is just fascism re-branded. The goal is to make the United States the leader in Green technology and then base the economy off of “exporting” that and “helping” other economies go green. You get the feel that they really think the US is just one big Corporation whose production can and should be dictated by the government.
Song 2?
Is that counting by 0-start index?
Sunny Minnesoda is now home of SIX major league teams. Football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer and now…. Quidditch!
How long until they demand their own stadium? If they had any brains at all they’d pretend that they really wanted to play in Minneapolis which would lead to St. Paul throwing together a ridiculous project to lure them away (aka the soccer stadium)
* The picture of the team is beyond embarrassing.
That is an awesome picture. I wanna play and get to minutes for high sticking.
Also, what the hell is with the Walter Peyton look alike doing playing that?
Grown “adults” running around holding brooms between their legs so they can pretend to fly…..yep, the fuckin’ country is doomed.
Nuke it from orbit…
At least they are running.
C’mon, man! We live in a world where Ultimate Frisbee is a thing.
I don’t get Harry Potter Fandom, and i’m right in the generation who it was really geared towards. I think the more and more i hear about it the more turned off i get. I also love how everyone smugly uses Harry Potter as an example of why we should trust Government and not evil x. Even though throughout the series it was Authority Figures who refused to do anything because they didn’t believe, or it made them look bad or whatnot. Its almost as Bad as HRC missing the entire point of 1984.
I wouldn’t have read the books had they been around when I was a kid because fantasy/magic stories never interested me, but I can understand an adult having a fondness for favorite books from childhood. This is a weird, all-consuming obsession though. It elevates what is supposed to be fluffy entertainment for children into the equivalent of James Joyce or something. It’s beyond bizarre.
I mean, I read the ever-loving shit out of the Hardy Boys books when I was a kid, but once I grew out of them I didn’t continue to make them the primary focus of my life.
It’s smugglers… always smugglers.
Oh come on, you didn’t give him a chance to drive out to the scene in a jalopy with his tow-haired brother and get baffled by what over-elaborate scheme this group had come up with!
Don’t forget their fat friend – the jalopy was his, after all, so he would be the one driving it.
It’s been a few decades, I don’t even remember the friend’s name.
Chet Morton, of course. One of the triumvirate of Hardy friends, the others being Biff Hooper and Tony…..some Italian name. Tony had the boat they used when their investigations required nautical transport, the Napoli.
No, I don’t know why I still remember this.
According to Wikipedia, Tony’s surname is Prito.
And it turns out they were Templars:
*hides Hardy boys role-playing sweaters*
I don’t get
Harry PotterFandomThere are many media-entities I have an obsessive love for. And yet I’ve found all groups dedicated to these things completely repellent.
Most people are awful, hence them gathering together for some sort of shared purpose tends to ruin things.
I get fandom. It’s great to be able to geek out about minutia about something from the lore with someone else. I get cosplay (although I’ve never done it). I even get LARPing (and have done it).
I don’t understand how they think it can be a professional sport. Hell, you could probably make a really good miniatures game based on Quiddich (which a quick search shows hasn’t been done).
Lets start with the fact that the rules to Quiddich are stupid.
It is a sport designed by someone who never actually played sports. Or spent any time Eurogaming either.
Well you haven’t been to my Wheel of Time fan nights. We have so much fun sitting around channeling and drinking forkroot.
Do you play with your braid? You have to play with your braid at least once per 5 pages.
The only fandom I’ve ever gotten into a little bit was The X-Files back in the late-90s. The nature of the show and the nature of the internet at the time were an absolutely perfect combination for it.
DO YOU BELIEVE?
+1 Usenet Crank
alt.conspiracy.black.helicopters
alt.conspiracy was the BEST!
I liked alt.religion.scientology
I was active on alt.discordia back in the day. alt.religion.scientology was a board they were afraid to troll. alt.feminists… not so much.
I saw the Potter spin off movie at the theater with my kid last week. Absolutely horrible. Obviously it cost a ton of money and they used it to fill every single scene with obnoxious CG effects. The original movies weren’t 2 hour assaults on your retinas.
I read it and enjoyed it in my youth.
But quidditch is the dumbest fucking game. Having a separate tiny ball floating around worth enough points to render the rest of the game meaningless is mind numbing.
Quidditch – at least for me – was the worst part of the books. I generally skimmed those parts as quickly as I could, picking up the little plot points that happened during the match.
What annoyed me most about the HP series was the inconsistencies of magic, and the patchy writing. I admit to reading the series – once – but have no urge to revisit it.
I read the series with my kids. It was pretty good for a light read. But yeah, basing your life around that is pretty dumb.
Gods damn it Cleveland. Why the fuck would you participate in this? We’ve only got room for two decent teams at a time anyways.
Maybe when LeBron realizes that no other superstars are willing (for some strange reason) to come play with him on the Lakers, he will quit and come back to Cleveland to bring the Quidditch trophy home?
The Decision 2: Quidditch Boogaloo
“…and that is why I am taking my talents to … the Cleveland Quidditch pitch!”
Look if you want to grab each other’s balls, just do it. There is no need to tart it up.
That picture has given me what will probably be the best laugh of my day, so thanks!
The fact that there is a black guy playing that stupid game is the greatest example of the progress our country has made in regards to racial equality.
Blacks have done so well that their kids are willing to play the stupidest lamest nerd game ever devised. That is fucking privilege!
On my morning commute I heard about a federal agency currently affected by the “shutdown”. This agency is tasked with regulating brewery licensing and such. I couldn’t help but think “why the fuck does this exist in the first place? Fire everyone and dissolve the department.”
My whole family, including me, died last week from drinking shitty beer!
Gov. Mumbles caved during the last Minnesoda govt shutdown the week before it was technically be illegal to sell smokes or booze because those state agencies were closed.
My gut feeling was that there was no way Big Govt advocates wanted the proles to figure out exactly how much bloat there was out there. Especially if they were pissed because they couldn’t get a cig or a drink because some bureaucrat had waved a magic wand to make it OK.
One more reason I could never live in the city proper: Sidewalks.
And the nanny neighbors who call the city because you aren’t shoveling quick enough for them.
If you expect me to spend my own time and energy clearing a sidewalk, I think I’m entitled to put up a toll gate.
I live in the part of town that if a neighbor tried to pull that shit on me, id point to the unplowed, iced over street and then tell them to fuck off.
The city I live in, the city clears the sidewalk. They even have a little plow to do the job.
I still clear my part of the sidewalk though since there are a lot of kids walking to school, and it takes the city a day or so to get to our neighborhood.
Why are you denying those children the chance to tell their kids they walked uphill to school through the snow both ways?!
Nikki lives in MN?
Memories…
Did you find Nikki?
We don’t even shovel our driveway. 17” of snow a few weeks ago and the Pilot went right through it with no issue.
For a few years when I lived in Washington we lived on a major thoroughfare in our city. Your responsibility to clear the sidewalks, of course (at pain of a fine or loss of your mail service). Doesn’t sound all that bad, except that the city plow trucks would come through and throw 2-3 feet of snow up on to the sidewalk. Even that doesn’t sound so bad, but the meltoff, sand, and de-icing liquid they’d throw down on the road all combined in that 2-3 foot drift to turn it into a solid block of cement. My dad bought a $1,200 snowblower with an industrial auger. Wouldn’t even touch it. Had to be busted up with a sledge and then shoveled off. So that sucked ass.
My kids love these snow markers. Last Winter we used copious amounts of red to make the back yard look like a horrendous crime scene then watched from inside the house as all of the passerby did double-takes and some panicking.
Did your wife pull out the
orange dildo and benwa ballscarrot nose and button mouth before giving it to the kids?My daughter asks “If it’s the city’s property why does the person who lives by it have to shovel the sidewalk?”
It’s to early to introduce her to the FYTW clause written in secret invisible ink but she’s developing an implied understanding of it.
She’s gonna be a real firecracker.
Easements. How do they work?
Poorly.
Really? Your community has trouble with its sidewalk technology? Most don’t.
People keep walking on my property and I’m told I can’t shoot them because “It’s a public sidewalk”.
I LOL’d
You bought it with the easement. So yeah you specifically bought property that others have the right to use and are now complaining that you cannot steal their use right. You are a socialist! 😉
Stop.
Back up to the sale transaction. There was never the option of buying back the easement from the tresspassing parties, which likely never compensated the initial owner upon whom the easements were pushed. The socialists stole that right first.
There was always the option of not buying property with a sidewalk easement on it. It was part of the deal. You took the deal, voluntarily.
Its like buying a used car. Maybe you wouldn’t have bought it new with that option package, but there’s no going back and making the original owner buy a different car so you can get exactly what you want in a used car.
So what’s the mechanism for buy back the easements? With your secondhand car you can put in the aftermarket parts, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to get these stains off the deed.
So what’s the mechanism for buy back the easements?
You go to the easement holder and offer them money.
So what’s the mechanism for buy back the easements? With your secondhand car you can put in the aftermarket parts, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to get these stains off the deed.
Does your objection extend to utility easements? To access easements where the driveway access for property 1 is by easement across property 2? I understand hating sidewalk easements but you are attacking a pretty important concept in property ownership here. (as you may have guessed from the uniformity of the Glibttorneys ganging up on you lol)
What’s preventing someone from selling the driveway parcel to the owner of the land who wants to reach the road?
And the agreement of attorneys just shows something to be a bad idea.
What’s preventing someone from selling the driveway parcel to the owner of the land who wants to reach the road?
The fact that they do not choose to give up all their rights to that piece of land? Possibly because they also use it for access to their plot?
I am not a lawyer.
You don’t like handling access issue by limited grants of rights from the property owner to the party needing access? You would prefer what? Easements are a market solution to some of the grey areas created by property rights rubbing against each other. Yay easements!
I don’t like anything that gets baked in and can’t be renegotiated when the property is sold.
Like property lines? Seriously I am exaggerating my disapproval here, but easements are of record. When you buy land you get that land, no more no less, and of course you cannot later sell more than you won. Easements can always be renegotiated, but the parties that have to agree are not the buyer and seller of the parcel, they are the owner of the parcel and the owner(s) of the rights under the easement. In other words you are complaining that you couldn’t appropriate someone else’s property right when you bought your house.
It’s an agreement with the current owner for use, implementing it as a perpetuity on the property should never have been accepted.
And on top of that you appear to assume that the ‘owner’ of the easement isn’t at the table for the renegotiation.
It’s an agreement with the current owner for use,
That’s a lease, not an easement.
A much better option for handling the use of a portion of a property than a perpetuity.
How is selling off an easement different than just selling off part of the property in fee simple? That is an agreement that alters the property in perpetuity as well.
Plus, there is nothing preventing you from going to the city and trying to buy the easement back. You’ll fail, of course, but why is that different than trying to buy it back as part of your acquisition of the property itself? Sure, if the city declines to sell it back, you can say you wouldn’t have bought the property, but in fact you did buy the property with the easement still on it.
Because a chunk sold off in fee simple no longer pretends to be part of the property.
A much better option for handling the use of a portion of a property than a perpetuity.
An easement is a grant. It is not an agreement to let someone use the property. It is a grant of part of the owner’s ownership right. You keep calling it a perpetuity, but it is a grant of a part of the ownership. In other words when you grant an easement that runs with the land you no longer own the specific part of the ownership bundle of rights that is described on the easement. You cannot unilaterally reclaim that because you, or your predecessor in title, sold it.
It is either your land or it is not your land. Having it be sota-kinda your land is the problem that needs to be fixed.
Because a chunk sold off in fee simple no longer pretends to be part of the property.
Land lease is a thing. You buy the structure in fee simple, but you only lease the land that it sits on.
There are plenty of situations where there are mixes of full and partial property ownership.
Is-Aught
It IS a mess of poorly contrived half-ownerships where it AUGHT to be inseperable.
I know what the reality is and I deal with that because I’m not an idiot. It Aught to be different.
As an aside, it is amazing the sort of discussion a joke prompts.
It IS a mess of poorly contrived half-ownerships where it AUGHT to be inseperable
To be honest, there were more than a few property law cases that after reading I remember thinking the same thing.
My initial reaction is that property should be left in tact (with regard to rights). On the other hand, who am I to stop people from parceling out the various rights associated with the property?
I don’t see how an easement is different from subdividing a lot. If you want to reintegrate the lot, you have to buy two separate properties.
If it were subdivided, that would be one thing. The fiction of “This is yours, but you can’t do anything with it” is another.
What are your thoughts on mineral rights?
Should only be leasable, and not seperable from the land they’re under.
Should only be leasable, and not seperable from the land they’re under.
UCS, sorry but this is incoherent. You are arguing that your ownership rights are infringed because the prior owners ownership rights were not infringed. You are saying an owner should not be permitted to sell part of their rights to someone else, because if they can do so they have somehow damaged ownership for someone who buys the remainder later. There is nothing socialist about easements. They are the epitome of the free market solving a problem that socialists view as requiring government involvement.
@Jarflax – No I’m not. That’s not what I’m saying at all. I was asked my thoughts on mineral rights. I answered by how I think it should be. If you want the minerals you can lease the right to extract them from the land owner, or buy the land and lease out the right to use the surface while you dig. It is also a perfectly workable solution that doesn’t require intervention.
If you want the minerals you can lease the right to extract them from the land owner, or buy the land and lease out the right to use the surface while you dig.
Mineral rights are not the same as the right to extract the minerals. To do that, you have to go onto the property, which is a separate right, and is typically a lease. There’s a lot of people in Texas who own no mineral rights, but still make money off of the oil companies through their agreement to let them come onto the property and drill. The mineral rights are really the rights to the revenue from the minerals.
If one a lease system, there is the presumption that an agreement would include the provisions for access of the property to conduct the extraction. The observation that there are secondary requisites isn’t really a confounding factor.
I think you are overlooking the fact that you can’t sell something you don’t own. Under a pure lease system, whoever extracts the minerals would have no ownership rights in them, which would mean they can’t sell them.
The minerals are part of the property. Somebody owns them. Why can’t a current owner sell them before they are extracted?
Our current system of divisible property rights was developed over centuries of (mostly) common law. It developed as a series of solutions to a series of problems. Throwing it away will simply recreate the problems that it solves.
Even if you think that way with regards to extractive processes, how does that impair the ‘buy the land and lease the use of unneeded surface portion?
But when you’re leasing the extraction rights, you’re paying the owner for the material you’re dragging out of the ground and taking ownership – buying the rock/oil/gas/whatever as part of the lease payments.
So you set up the agreement with the landowner so that you lease the right to extract minerals, and acquire property rights in whatever you extract, while you retain the rights to unextracted minerals. I think that’s doable. Of course, there is probably a good reason why nobody does it that way.
Regardless, it begs the question of why you don’t want to allow the property owner to sell the minerals before they are extracted.
Maybe you’d have to sit through Property Law 101 with a good professor (mine was one of my faves) who goes through the historical cases where our property laws were developed. There are good reasons why we allow owners to sell partial property rights in perpetuity. And even if there weren’t, I still haven’t heard a reason to deprive the current property owner of their right to sell partial property rights in perpetuity.
Because it doesn’t fit with one person’s arbitrary gut reaction.
STEVE SMITH EASE-MENT RIGHT INTO YOUR POOPER
Eh, the city doesn’t shovel and my neighbors are elderly.
I can spend 20 minutes once a day so they don’t break a hip.
I live on a little cul de sac and at this point whoever is shoveling their sidewalk will often just do the whole thing, then someone else will do it next time, etc. (unless it’s a big, heavy snowfall, then we’re all out). It’s pleasantly neighborly.
NUH UH…VOLUNTARY ACTION DOES NOT EXIST!!!
“we’re gonna impeach the motherfucker”
Speaking of
President Donald Trump is a direct and serious threat to our country. On an almost daily basis, he attacks our Constitution, our democracy, the rule of law and the people who are in this country. His conduct has created a constitutional crisis that we must confront now …
We already have overwhelming evidence that the president has committed impeachable offenses, including, just to name a few: obstructing justice; violating the emoluments clause; abusing the pardon power; directing or seeking to direct law enforcement to prosecute political adversaries for improper purposes; advocating illegal violence and undermining equal protection of the laws; ordering the cruel and unconstitutional imprisonment of children and their families at the southern border; and conspiring to illegally influence the 2016 election through a series of hush money payments …
We are also now hearing the dangerous claim that initiating impeachment proceedings against this president is politically unwise and that, instead, the focus should now shift to holding the president accountable via the 2020 election. Such a claim places partisan gamesmanship over our country and our most vulnerable at this perilous moment in our nation’s history. Members of Congress have a sworn duty to preserve our Constitution. Leaving a lawless president in office for political points would be abandoning that duty …
The world they have created in their heads must be insanely tiresome in which to reside.
directing or seeking to direct law enforcement to prosecute political adversaries for improper purposes; advocating illegal violence and undermining equal protection of the laws;
It really is all projection with these lunatics, isn’t it? I also love how enforcing the actual law at the border, in accordance with the powers designated under the constitution, is somehow unconstitutional.
I also love how the constitution apparently now applies to non-citizens
President Donald Trump is a direct and serious threat to our country.
Insofar as any President in it’s current structure is a threat to the country…
On an almost daily basis, he attacks our Constitution, our democracy, the rule of law and the people who are in this country. His conduct has created a constitutional crisis that we must confront now …
Constitutional Crisis: the new buzzword for Democrats that let them explain why what they are doing is OK even though it is unconstitutional.
We already have overwhelming evidence that the president has committed impeachable offenses, including, just to name a few:
obstructing justice;
When he did…? what exactly? Talked to his FBI director who lied to congress and leaked documents?
violating the emoluments clause;
If only Trump had formed a Private Charity in his name rather than a buisness.
abusing the pardon power;
How can you abuse a power that is pretty much entirely at his discretion? And even if you think it’s ‘abuse’ how is that impeachable in the sense that it’s a “High Crime”.
directing or seeking to direct law enforcement to prosecute political adversaries for improper purposes;
I’d like to know how, and in what way it is different from the IRS targeting political dissidents or Obama sending the federal marshals after a scapegoat for Benghazi.
advocating illegal violence
… as opposed to all the legal violence advocated by the left?
undermining equal protection of the laws
By not favoring a group over another?
ordering the cruel and unconstitutional imprisonment of children and their families at the southern border
You are right. We should also have the DOJ bring in Obama and his administration. Luckily we don’t have to go through impeachment to get justice against them.
and conspiring to illegally influence the 2016 election through a series of hush money payments …
Wait not Russians?
We are also now hearing the dangerous claim that initiating impeachment proceedings against this president is politically unwise and that, instead, the focus should now shift to holding the president accountable via the 2020 election. Such a claim places partisan gamesmanship over our country and our most vulnerable at this perilous moment in our nation’s history. Members of Congress have a sworn duty to preserve our Constitution. Leaving a lawless president in office for political points would be abandoning that duty …
Now there i can agree. If you actually believe that Trump is some unique evil, then politicking about it is sheer dereliction of duty.
<EM<Constitutional Crisis: the new buzzword
“The Constitution is not suicide pact” is how they justify all of their unconstitutional actions and desires.
The whole memo is egregiously disingenuous, and is ill-informed legally and historically.
Such rhetoric will be tested by advocates characterizing atomic energy as “clean.”
Atomic energy (I didn’t know that term was even still in use) isn’t clean. Not like batteries, which grow out of the ground by magic.
George Welsh, the man who singlehandedly turned the worst program in D-I football into a consistent winner, has passed away. I enjoyed many fall Saturday afternoons in Charlottesville because of him.
I hope he got to enjoy the beatdown of SCAR the other day.
I thought that too – at least their last game of his lifetime was a big win. Hope he got to see it.
It’s hard to overstate the amazing job he did. UVA football, with the exception of a handful of seasons in the late ’40s-early ’50s, had been pure shit for the entirety of its existence prior to his hiring.
I’ve many fond memories of Saturday afternoons watching Welsh led teams. The Welsh era was definitely the high point of U.Va football.
One of my all-time favorite games was in Charlottesville.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQUdYZI7TlM&t=2706s
Without looking, Tech vs. UVA, 1990?
“Lesbian ‘BATWOMAN’ Series Moving Forward”
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/ruby-rose-led-batwoman-pilot-a-go-at-cw-1172794
We don’t know her secret identity of course, but we do know who she scissors.
Because in-your-face SJW propagandizing has been so successful in other entertainment venues.
Well, Wonder Woman and Black Panther made bank, didn’t they?
Jus’ sayin’
Black Panther was an Alt-Right parable.
I finally got around to seeing Black Panther. It was fine, I don’t see what the hoopla was about.
I thought Wonder Woman was legit entertaining. It didn’t trigger my usual “98 pound waif kicks everyone’s ass” annoyance (looking at you, Summer Glau), since at least it’s “she’s a supernatural being”.
*stares at Gal Gadot’s tits*
Yeah, I am very woke about…. feminism now!
*cheese eating grin*
That’s not cheese you are daydreaming about eating.
I don’t know that I’d characterize those movies quite that way, though.
The cartoon Batwoman is already a lesbo. Hawt by the way.
Lip-stick Lesbian Batwoman gets her Butch-Bitch girlfriend to throw her drink in your face when you ask her to dance. Sounds charming.
Always stealing characters.
Isn’t that cultural appropriation?
Are the Legends of Tomorrow not superheros? Or is it because Sarah is bi and that isn’t pure enough?
Forget it CPRM, it’s progtown. People crowed about Black Panther being the “first black superhero in film” despite all the previous ones.
Non-Gold Star Lesbians have sold out to the patriarchy.
Great. Endless U-Haul montages.
*thinks for a moment*
*slowclap*
Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, introduced two Constitutional Amendments today on the opening day of the new Congress. The first would eliminate the Electoral College and provide for the direct election of the President and Vice President of the United States. The second would limit the presidential pardon power by prohibiting presidents from pardoning themselves, members of their families, members of their administrations and their campaign staff.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
“In two presidential elections since 2000, including the most recent one in which Hillary Clinton won 2.8 million more votes than her opponent, the winner of the popular vote did not win the election because of the distorting effect of the outdated Electoral College. Americans expect and deserve the winner of the popular vote to win office. More than a century ago, we amended our Constitution to provide for the direct election of U.S. Senators. It is past time to directly elect our President and Vice President.”
“Presidents should not pardon themselves, their families, their administration or campaign staff. This constitutional amendment would expressly prohibit this and any future president, from abusing the pardon power.”
The events of the 1860’s notwithstanding, this was the first major blow against state sovereignty/representation and step in the direction away from the Republic constructed by the founders. By all means continue this by moving to elect the president with a direct, national vote. State boundaries will be rendered irrelevant and the Republic officially destroyed. Welcome to the mono-state and tyranny of the majority.
On the bright side they are acknowledging that a constitutional amendment is necessary to achieve this end. Maybe we can get them to apply the same standard to 2A. (stop laughing)
Americans expect and deserve the winner of the popular vote to win office.
He misspelled “Democrats”.
Until of course a Democrat loses the popular vote and wins the electoral. Then the electoral college will be good again.
Precisely. Because I’m old enough to remember the world pre-November 2016, when the Donks would chortle about their invicible blue wall that ensured victory in the Electoral College. They sure didn’t mind the EC back then.
Oxen gored, owners of. As it was so shall it ever be.
Americans are uninformed then, and should blame their shoddy government education.
This is just the left engaging in a circle jerk. These amendments are just red meat for their base and will never make it.
Incremental infection of the body politic. Forty years from now most of us will be dead and won’t care anymore.
Incremental infection of the body politic
This. It is why they persist in using terms like “our democracy” when the US is not a democracy.
yeah, can we get a re-vote on that one?
On the stupid Senate proposal:
Let’s pretend that you could re-allocate Senate seats by legislation (you can’t, and its painfully, stupidly obvious that you can’t). You’ve got to get that legislation through the Senate, which means you are going to be asking a bunch of Senators to vote their seats away, and to vote away seats that are held by fellow party members. Good luck with that, but perhaps the fantasy is that the Dems will hold a 60 seat majority and can just ram it through. Lets look at the ten smallest states, and their Senators by party:
Hawaii – 2 Dems
New Hampshire – 2 Dems
Maine – 1 Repub, 1 Independent (I assume King is a crypto-Dem, but don’t really know)
Montana – 1 Repub, 1 Dem
Rhode Island – 2 Dems
Delaware – 2 Dems
South Dakota – 2 Repubs
North Dakota – 2 Repubs
Alaska – 2 Repubs
Vermont – 1 Dem, 1 Commie
Wyoming – 2 Repubs
I count 10 – 12 Dem votes on that list. More than half! And to get to 60 Dems or Dem-symps in the Senate, you are likely to increase the number of small-state Dems who would have to vote for stripping themselves, and their state, of a Senate seat. How stupid do you have to be to think that would ever, ever happen.
Can you imagine the recount hell that would happen if the US went to a popular vote?
The vote fraud in machine strongholds would become an even bigger problem.
What you call ‘hell’, I call a thing of beauty: our enemies devote even more time and treasure chasing each other’s tails.
Uffda. Looks like Pelosi is going to earn that coveted title of “constitutional scholar”.
Ummmm…… I give up. I’m also a bit nauseous from reading that tongue bath that the NYT gave her. How come Bush and Romney and the other shit heels are always getting shit “for being born on 3rd base and thinking they hit a triple”, but someone like Pelosi gets a pass (her father and brother were mayors of Baltimore).
But there is no such thing as media bias when it comes to politicians. Look at fair and balanced story from MPR.
Who cares what those dirty GOP-ers think?
I’ll give her this, Pelosi comes from a well-established line of corrupt politicians.
Team. If Trump had decided to run as a D they’d love him and Hannity would be talking about the loss of civility. It’s really that simple.
I mean, politically, i think the Speaker of The House is Equal to the President. Ideally i would like to see the Speaker rally the House together to retake power from the presidency.
I agree. The fact that a desiccated, diseased crone like Pelosi is the speaker at the moment doesn’t mean that the Congress SHOULD be the actual seat of power in this country.
There are 100 ego maniacs in the Senate who’d like to have a chat with you.
Sure – on the condition that none of them are allowed to bring bodyguards or recording devices to the chat.
I know, but with the VP being president of the Senate, I think it makes Sense for the Speaker to fall into the role of “Leader” of congress.
I agree that the title is fine. But I don’t think she has many levers of power that are granted via the Constitution.
She is leader of one half of one branch of the government. That isn’t the same as the President. Not in any of the 57 states that constitutional scholars live in.
That’s probably a more accurate way to say what i was getting at.
John Adams was the last VP to actually try to be President of the Senate.
Asked if she considers herself Mr. Trump’s equal, she replied, “The Constitution does.”
That would be that the Legislature, not the speaker of the House, is (roughly) equal to the Executive.
We’re talking thirds here so that makes her more than half wrong. Go home Granny, you’re drunk.
She is 1/535th of a president.
It costs about 16 bucks to get a decent take out cobb salad in the area I work in the city . When I go to Philly it’s half that.
a 16 dollar salad?
They individually wash each leaf and carefully construct the finished product one piece at a time by hand.
Yup. Any NYer can back me up on that
I’m going to have to assume you’re in one of the boroughs then.
Because a decent Cobb salad cost me $3.99 yesterday.
I thought you didn’t eat at gas stations.
I got it from a grocery store.
They don’t sell gas, and the ingredients were fresh.
A $4 cobb though? Bacon, egg, avocado, lettuce, tomato, blue cheese…for $4?
Avocado? No.
Though I admit it was a small salad, but I’m trying to keep intake down.
In Manhattan? 3.99? No chance unless it came in shot glass sized container
I haven’t been in Manhattan since I last flew to England – and I didn’t buy any food there.
I live in the Capital District. It’s still New York.
Oh when you said boroughs I thought you meant Brooklyn, queens, etc as opposed to Manhattan
I had initially phrased it as “the city”, but there are a number of upstate cities, including six or so in the capital district.
Even I know that “The City” doesn’t refer to Schenectady.
There’s also a difference between “Quebec” and “Le Quebec.”
I refuse to cede to the people who think there is only one City in New York.
Same assholes who think “The Times” refers to the NYT exclusively.
I believe you; ready-made grocery store salads are $7.99 at our store so I imagine a restaurant version to be even pricier. That said, the only times I see a salad in a restaurant is when the grumpy old men at Peter Luger’s bring me a 1/4 head of iceberg lettuce with a cherry tomato, radish, and slice of red onion swimming in bleu cheese dressing while I wait for my bacon and steak.
Even with artisanal greens grown in native pigeon shit with water straight from Red Hook, just the transportation, labor costs, rent, etc. drive the cost. If you can get a $4 salad from someone who has a shop whose rent is 1/10th the cost, guess what, if rent is 1/4 of the price of the salad… Transportation and delivery is more expensive in much of Manhattan at least. Labor is more expensive everywhere in the City, compliance is more expensive. Why is anyone surprised?
You know what’s weird about that? The last time I went to NYC, a few years ago, we stopped in a sandwich shop and got excellent sandwiches for the same price we would have paid at a Jimmy John’s. I was surprised that they weren’t much more expensive.
Yes sandwiches are cheaper than salads. You can get a decent one and chips for about 8 bucks
In Brooklyn and Queens, sandwiches are significantly less expensive than comparable fair from Lawn Guyland (or even Louisiana and Florida). Bodega competition pushes a bacon, egg, and cheese on a role + cup o’ coffee down in to the $1.50 – $2.00 range.
Life is but a stage and sometimes sammies come on rolls not roles.
I don’t know what you consider decent or what city that is but at Chop’d and the like in the Wall Street area it was under 10 bucks as of around 5 years ago. Even today I would not consider spending over 12 bucks at any sort of take-out restaurant in NYC.
I.e. you wuz robbed.
Well 5 years ago you could get an apartment in fucking astoria for a k. Now try finding one for under 1600.
I work in midtown east in 50s and you’re not getting a fresh take out Cobb salad for under 16 bucks.
The best deal for salads is actually at a Subway, but then you have to deal with the people who work there.
The world they have created in their heads must be insanely tiresome in which to reside.
I have never played it, but Grand Theft Auto sounds like a world of harmonious tranquility compared to Trump’s America.
Came home one day and my wife was playing my GTA for the first time. “This game is terrible. The other drivers and pedestrians are really rude.”
TW: Vox
Is capitalism worth saving?
A debate with economics writer Steven Pearlstein.
blah blah
Clearly communism, which leaves everyone but the nomenklatura behind, is superior.
“They started sharing less profits with their employees and with shareholders and customers.”
Where, might i ask then, were all these profits going?
Scrooge McDuck has to fill that swimming pool somehow.
meh, the US enjoyed the position of being the only industrial superpower for decades and when everyone else started to catch up, a large contingent of Americans just started bitching instead of working. We cannot vote ourselves riches, we must earn them.
when everyone else started to catch up, a large contingent of Americans just started bitching instead of working.
Kind of true, but not entirely fair in a lot of ways either. A lot of people couldn’t continue working because they got competed out of their careers by the developing world, and contrary to the awesome white papers with the killer statistics and perfect equations, you can’t always make a sheet metal stamper with a high school education into a globally competitive white collar knowledge worker, even with the best training initiatives that uncle sam can buy. It’s especially jarring when the guy was in a union shop and accustomed to a $80/hr lifestyle and his skills became worth about minimum wage in the span of 5-10 years. It’s a big adjustment.
It is. And it was a fair observation when Bill Clinton went to Ohio in ’92 and told the workers that a lot of those jobs weren’t coming back and that they would need to reeducate themselves in order to compete.
At the same time, the best thing that ever happened to those people was the reduction in cost of living that Walmart brought. It’s a double-edged sword.
The real problem lies with the Fed and the rapid expansion of debt. It has done more to exacerbate the “inequality” issue than anything else.
At the same time, the best thing that ever happened to those people was the reduction in cost of living that Walmart brought.
It probably kept them from falling quite as far in terms of standard of living, but at their previous rates of pay they could have sustained a better standard of living even with the higher cost of goods.
Good anecdote from probably 20 years ago or more now back when I was living in Spokane: Kaiser aluminum. The workers there were unionized and making what was then luxury wages for the area. Contract negotiations come up. They strike. Aluminum has already taken a beating with falling commodity prices. After like 2 years of on-again off-again strikes and negotiations they end up laying off about half the workforce and shifting production to other facilities. The guys who stayed ended up making about the same as they were before. The other half that ended up unemployed? Well, one of my buddies’ uncles was one of them. He ended up installing sprinklers for about half what he was making.
The real issue is taxation and regulation. Plus I argue the US Navy acting as protector of the sea lanes is a giant subsidy to overseas industry. How many US companies would put billion dollar capital assets in the Third World if we had a Navy that only guarded the American coast?
Add to that the Chinese government subsidizing their shipping industry to the point where they pay almost all the cost. If the Chinese are going to suppress labor costs, shipping costs, and building costs, you’d have to be an idiot not to take advantage. People used to argue for tariffs when it was just Chinese companies importing goods, but suddenly the tariffs were bad when the company headquarters were in the US and the stock traded on the NYSE.
The libertarian arguments against tariffs – and against subsidies, and against most regulation – are sound. But if you’re going to be against tariffs AND take advantage of another country’s stupidity in subsidizing, you still have to ask what that leaves you with. In the US’s case, we shit canned the tariffs, but jacked up our own subsidies and regulation (aka the worst parts of the rest of the welfare state). The bottom line is we wound up with a smaller proportion of people working in the private sector and a larger proportion of people depending on government for their income – the exact opposite of what a libertarian would want. But libertarians keep making the same mistake of looking at each issue in a theoretical vacuum – the stupid shit they do at TOS. Taking one step forward and focusing on that while ignoring the two steps back you compromised on is how you slowly erode your liberty.
In a sane and just world, every AFL-CIO apparatchik would be swinging from the nearest lamppost.
I agree, I’m just saying, I can understand why a lot of them said “hey, fuck this capitalism noise”.
I know. We’ve seen this story play out time and time again.
“because they got competed out of their careers by the developing world,”
You say out-competed, I say out-regulated.
rewards too many of the things we think of as bad
Hard work and perseverance?
The system offends the moral sensibilities
even of people who are benefiting from it.lazy, marxist twats that think they are owed things by others simply because they exist.Neoliberal policies of global free trade and unregulated markets were embraced
Wut? Ever-increasing government involvement in the market means the market was free and unregulated? Sometimes I have to wonder if I am crazy or if it is everyone else.
Re: Pelosi – Nothing against old folks but eventually someone has to step up and take Grandma’s car keys away. When I lived in Victoria for a time we’d call them “Q-Tips”.
Afraid to ask, but “Q-Tips”?
I’m going to guess that’s what their white head looks like from behind when you’re tailgating them because they’re going 20mph under the speed limit.
I call ’em steering wheel biters due to their propensity to put the seat as far forward as it will go and their death grip on the wheel.
You follow behind them at snail speed and all that you can see is a tuft of white hair poking up from from the driver’s seat. It’s an old joke.
You’re talking about cotton swabs. Now I get it.
Oh-oh, I’ve been spotted…
Not you, young Man. Never you! Although my own Dad lost his wits on the road with tragic consequences not long ago. Makes me wonder about my own lapses in judgement over the last while.
My mom just got dropped by Allstate after her 3rd(?) accident in something like 18 months. She also fell asleep behind the wheel and ran a red light into a car a couple years ago.
It’s depressing and scary to see the decline.
(incidentally, she went to college with Pelosi – I suspect she’s similarly declining)
Slum, could those be medical symptoms? My brother at about 73-74 started having similar problems, turns out he had cirrhosis, even after not drinking for over 30 years. Strange things sometimes begin to happen as the calendar creeps.
I don’t think so or at least not anything specific; she’ll be 78 shortly and is just a bit inattentive to begin with (last accident) and stays up too late (red light – she’s up at 5, it was around 10).
3rd accident wasn’t her fault – boyfriend was driving.
I (we – siblings) think it’s just a bit of age related slow-down and someone who was never a great driver to begin with. She’s otherwise quite healthy for her age – still going on hiking trips, etc.
There was a kid in middle school (during the Justin Timberlake frosty tips era) who frosted his tips. He was a sandy blonde, so it looked ridiculous. We called him Q-tip.
I’d wager that you would still call him that to this very day if you ever met again. Some nicknames never come out of the wash.
We call the “too old to drive contingent” Moss Backs.
I’m trying to read through that “Fix the Senate” article, and all I hear is a magician telling the audience, “If we *deem* the elephant to have passed through the eye of that needle, my trick works.”
Yup. Basically “Well we can’t amend it normally because the constitution expressly forbids a state to loose equal representation without their consent so, we have to do it through legislation since the rule only applies to amendments. And anyway we could say that the States did consent because …”
Notorious RBG approves.
And if you call it a tax, Roberts is on board too.
These people are playing with fire.
314 comments?
DON’T ANY OF YOU WORK?
Why do you keep asking? You know the answer.
I’m working hard to up the comment count.
Not today! *cheerfully moons Rufus*
Vacation ends in 8 hours. Thanks for reminding me.
“Here’s an idea: buy groceries and make your own salads, you lazy fucks.”
No shit.
Waiting in line for….salad?
How do you win friends like that?
Mebbe the “Saladeer” is cute?
Speaking of “fixing” democracy, we should definitely return to the level of proportional representation which existed in the late 1700s. (Too lazy to look it up.) Because if Congress is a swamp of ineffectual gridlock now, just wait ’til there are 3500 or so Congresscritters fighting for a piece of the kill.
I think a congress with that many members could potentially become so unruly that it would be near impossible to achieve consensus on anything, which would be good.
We should have a congress for congress. Like what if we elected representatives who then sent two delegates (from among them or elsewhere) to represent them at that body.
Mind = blown
As long as chicks don’t vote. And blacks. And irish. Did the jews vote back then?
I ate KFC for the first time in 3 years. Goddamnit i need to drop 10 kilos. I feel so dirty
This may be controversial, but extra crispy is vastly superior to original recipe.
Every year or so , I get a hankering for the Colonel. Sickens me every time. KFC used to be a treat when I was wee.
He puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly,
Guilty pleasure movie.
I don’t even feel guilty about it – that move is a gem.
I own it – I should make my wife watch it tonight (it’s amazing what she hasn’t seen).
+1 Catholic High School Girls in Trouble
Young Nancy Travis pushes all of my buttons and Mike Myers is REALLY good in that one. Aside from the stupid story that movie holds up. Even has a catchy theme song! Officially off the list.
Nancy looks awesome in that.
Alan Arkin does such a great job in that movie, makes me laugh every time.
And, from last night, I just learned that the theme is the Boo Radleys cover, and not The La’s
I actually listened to three versions of the song tonight and the only difference was that I’d be willing to flirt with the girl from Six-pence.
Not controversial, Popeyes is better.
The friend chicken in plastic containers at my Kroger deli is sadly better than both and it ain’t great.
Absolutely correct. I can’t comment on Church’s, but they do fried okra and popcorn shrimp so they can’t be all bad.
No one ever went wrong with popcorn shrimp. This is known.
Church’s biscuits >> any other fast food biscuits.
Yeah, Churches had decent friend chicken as I recall but unfortunately there are none close to me.
The only one in my area now is in DC, and that’s too far for me. There used to be one in Upper Marlboro but it looks like it’s closed down. I think Popeye’s muscled them out.
Oh, and if you’re fortunate enough to be in a place where there are Royal Farms, they have by far the best fried chicken you can buy from a chain. It’s like light years ahead of anything else. It’s difficult to believe because it’s basically a regional convenience store chain, but that shit is unbelievable. I work about a block away from one and all you can smell fried chicken all through the neighborhood. I’m surprised there aren’t people just milling around outside pawing at the door like zombies.
I thought it was because Royal Farms only needed to walk ten feet to the nearest chicken megafarm to get the ingredients.
/only knows them from Delmarva
I mean, if you’re close enough to smell chicken shit, you’re liable to get fresh chicken, that’s for sure.
My wife and I stopped at one on the way to Virginia Beach in this out-of-the-way spot and there was an actual chicken hanging around the front of the store. Nobody batted an eye, which we thought was weird. I assumed it had PTSD, or it was going to lock the doors and torch the place out of revenge, but it turns out that a guy nearby raised chickens and they’d wander over from time to time to beg for cheetos and so forth.
Well, they don’t come from the nugget machine, yet.
Popeye’s is OK. Lee’s Famous Recipe is the best chain fried chicken I’ve had.
Popeyes locations outside of Louisiana (particularly here in NYC) have been disappointing at best. I really miss Al Copeland and his constant fights with Anne Rice.
Publix, the Florida supermarket chain, has the World’s best fried chicken over in the deli section.
9 year old robc agrees.
Now I think they are both vile.
Only because you haven’t tried the corn flake version.
That’s why it comes in a bucket. You have something to puke in when you’re done.
HT/Neil Hamburger
I miss Hardee’s fried chicken, they bought the recipe from Roy Roger’s. MMMMMMM
Seconded on Hardee’s. An Indy 500 race day tradition.
Elizabeth Warren’s “Likability” Is Already the Dumbest Debate of 2020
Of course, male politicians don’t have to be likable. That’s why we now have President Cruz.
“Imma go get me a beer!” has got to be one of the last utterances that would pass her lips in a sane universe. Her hubby appears to consume nothing but mothers milk and soy patties. So cringe, much shame.
“Time to open this bottled beer beverage with a *checks palm* …bottle beer opener.”
How hard would it be to come across a “likable” when you’re sharing a debate stage with a girl’s hair sniffer, Spartacus, and the lady that cried “KKK”?
Leave me out of this.
Since I’m burdened with her as one of my congress critters, I’m torn by her candidacy – on the one hand, she’s going to running around the country for the next 20 months or so, ignoring her job in DC, which annoys me.
On the other hand, she’s going to be ignoring her job in DC, which might reduce the damage she can do.
For the good of the country, I suppose it’s best to have her galavanting around the country, trying to prove how warm and smart she is and not at all an unlikeable scold.
She’s not even “Schoolmarm” scold, she’s “Bitchy Librarian” scold.
I think every politician ever has to have a good deal of “likeability”. Or at least more than your opponent.
This may be controversial, but extra crispy is vastly superior to original recipe.
Not at my house (not controversial, that is).
For those who are looking for e-readers, Woot has the 1st gen paperwhite for $40
At the same time, the best thing that ever happened to those people was the reduction in cost of living that Walmart brought. It’s a double-edged sword.
We imported deflation for a long time, which is something the Robert Reichs of the world never bring up when they start howling about no wage growth for the lower/middle class.
That’s my retirement plan at this point. Age into Walmart greeter territory = Profit!
But Warren, like Clinton before her, has to have the ability to be liked.
Elizabeth Warren appears to me to be a homunculus constructed of mashed potatoes, brought to life by an evil magic spell for reasons best not contemplated in detail.
She sucks a long-neck like a dubious 15 year-old girl, so that’s kinda hawt.
Judge blocks NYC law requiring Airbnb to share host data
NYC cab medallion holders commit suicide en masse.
Trump may reach across the aisle to replace the Mad Dog.
He could do a lot worse than Webb.
I’d have voted for Webb if he’d gotten the nomination. I’ve got a lot of respect for the guy, and he seems like he isn’t insane, stupid, or a narcissist, so he immediately beats out 90% of politicians.
That letter he wrote pre Iraq invasion should get him the nod by itself. Interesting how Politico’s comment section is filled with spam.
Hell, Webb pretty much left the GOP over Iraq. Little did he know, he was walking right into another bunch of wannabe foreign adventurers.
Ditto.
I was playing “what politician from the other side of the isle would you vote for” with a progressive recently. I said I’d vote for Webb, and said that didn’t count because no progressive would vote for him. Then I ate three pints of ice cream, put on Caroline in the City reruns, and cried myself to sleep.
I look on my side of the aisle and see unprincipled squishes. I look across the aisle and see raving loonatics at best, and outright evil people at worst.
If he can pull that off, it will be a coup. Webb is vastly qualified and his foreign policy outlook aligns with Trump.
In a sane world, Webb would have gotten the Democrat nomination.
Drone murdering brown people is as nothing in the face of criminalizing hate speech, funding Planned Parenthood, punishing gun owners, hounding men on campuses, and all the rest of the minutia comprising the Democrat agenda.
Nice Liz Warren beer meme:
https://me.me/i/how-do-you-do-fellow-kids-l-am-your-new-4cf5ba0c64c64cd2aaeafae1a8b6dc26
Hyuk, hyuk.
“Let’s Twist again, Like we did last summer!”
I’m glad to see the people of Detroit are electing representatives that are promising to address their most pressing needs. It’s hard to understand how it became such a shithole with that sort of logical and intelligent decision making by the voters.
Free Shit(hole)
ACLU: ‘Scarlet Badge’ Policy at Arizona High School Shames Students
Students have to wear ID badges? Wow, that’s…real gross. Why not just go all the way and put them in orange jumpsuits with numbers on the back?
You know who… oh never mind
I’m curious as to how making someone wear a different colored badge is a violation of their civil rights?
I would also be somewhat surprised if missing school for medical treatments really counts as an unexcused absence.
If I’m reading the excerpt correctly the badge color was “Failing student” rather than “Truant student”
“Dumbass student”
In Chicago, the failing students outnumber the rest, so the ones doing well academically are the ones getting shamed.
It’s probably not, but I’m curious as to how they think this is going to make things better. Publically shaming emo high school kids does not make them suddenly decide to get with the program–usually just the opposite.
And if the other students can see it and know what it stands for, this could be a FERPA violation as well.
It would take minutes after the first red badge showed up for the rest of the students to know what it means.
Probably counts as a school-doesn’t-get-paid-absence, and those are the ones that really matter.
Having a daughter who suffers severe anemia (and is a straight A student to boot!), something doesn’t smell right in this story.
Is that… is that a joke about how iron deficiency anemia impairs sense of smell?
I have the feeling the absences weren’t the problem:
Making someone wear a badge IS a violation of their civil rights.
Counterproductive at best. Destructive at worst.
My bumper sticker
“My grand daughter wears a red badge at school”
A propos of nothing, does anybody do “Hunt a Killer”? If not, you should. I’m catching up on a solid year’s worth of boxes and I’d forgotten how much fun it is.
Had to look up what that was. Sounds kind of interesting, but I mean… there has to be a video game version of that right?
Okay, what is it? I was too busy arguing property principles to get around to looking it up.
You get a box full of clues and have to use them to solve a murder mystery.
You grab the first memor of an unfavored group that happened to be near the scene without an alibi and beat a confession out of them.
/old school policing.
Probably guilty of something school.
“What’s in the Box??!!”
Are you familiar with the Mysterious Package Company? Basically, it’s that but episodic, and with an objective. Heavy on the puzzle-solving, generally simple cryptography and research. The premise is that you’ve agreed to become a pen pal of a patient in a psychiatric hospital and that the correspondence goes through a screening process such that you’re anonymous and the package contents have been inspected for safety. So you wind up with stuff like, say, a newspaper clipping, a pen, a scrap of a cocktail napkin, and a typewritten letter from the patient. Using that stuff, you kind of try to figure out what exactly is going on. The story progresses as you get each box. The letters kind of point you in a general direction and the various bits in the package are the main clues. There’s an overarching story within which are story arcs that correspond to the “seasons”, which are anywhere from six to eight “episodes”, or boxes.
I’ve never heard of tha company either.
From the description, I can see how someone might get hooked. Thank you for the explaination.
It’s great as a gift but pricey.
My wife signed up but we haven’t got past the first few boxes due to time limits. Way behind. May have to break those out this weekend. It’s fun.
If you like that, it sounds like Sherlock Holmes may be up your alley. I haven’t played it myself (I’m not a big fan of co-op games), but it’s got tons of rave reviews.
The most dangerous game?
Settlers of Catan with neckbeards
Pshaw, you’d outrun them in seconds flat.
Yeah, but if they have the spare battery on their mobility scooter they can be dangerous over long distances.
McDonald’s worker attacked by man in viral video hires attorney: ‘This type of violence happens to women, especially black women, every day’
Somebody is getting ready to ride the gofundme gravy train.
There’s an epidemic of white men attacking black women? In the US? I’m gonna need to see some stats on that.
One incident is an epidemic. See Matthew Shepard who has been rolled out every year for 20 years as the example of rampant violence against gay men. One guy in 20 years.
One guy killed in a drug deal gone bad who happened toe be gay.
There was one case recently where a homeless nutball white dude randomly killed a young black girl on public transportation in Oakland. You wouldn’t be surprised at the amount of media coverage that one received. There was even a protest march at the station. There was non stop local coverage of it for the day or two it took them to find the guy and for weeks after it was a main story.
In terms of numbers*
Black on Black Crime > White on White Crime > Black on White crime > White on Black Crime
*I forget if it was rate or absolute numbers.
A comment on crime statistics or a ranking of Pornhub fetishes?
Crime statistics. Get your mind out of the gutter. That’s a city easement you’re tresspassing on.
A comment on crime statistics or a ranking of Pornhub fetishes?
Crime clearly. I shouldn’t even have to point out to you that the absence of Asians means it is not porn rankings.
From my own perusal you should shuffle # 3 to #1.
If that’s the ranking on PornHub, that is a crime.
“I am aware this type of violence happens to women, especially black women, every day,”
Homeless guys leap over McDonald’s counters and attack workers every day? You’d think there would be a whole YouTube channel devoted to this.
I’ve really let my white privilege go to waste.
Mine seems to have withered on the vine, so to speak.
I remember sitting at the kitchen table at age 25 thinking about how badly I had screwed up my life. I was married and had two kids. I had made two aborted attempts to go to college, but could swing the money. And I hated my job.
I few months later I lost the job that I hated at the bottom of the deepest recession in my lifetime. The local newspaper had two, count’m two, ads for jobs in the classified section. Both where door-to-door sales.
So I signed up for college. My wife signed up for college. We borrowed the maximum amount in student loans and worked part time. We lived below the poverty line for three years. I graduated and took the only job I was offered.
We moved to Phoenix. I worked 60-hour weeks for several years. I paid cash for the last two years of my wife’s college degree while paying my own student loans.
Fuck the sniveling shithead 20-somethings that borrowed 50K to get a stupid degree. Sometimes you make mistakes. It’s too bad you’ll spend 15 to 20 years paying off that mistake. But tough shit.
I made a mistake when I was 16 that I’ll apparently never live down. It has colored my entire life since then. I really should have moved far, far away and started over.
“…but you fuck one sheep and you are forever known as “The Sheepfucker”.”
Yep.
If you saw the sheep, you would understand.
Some people just need to get rid of their morningwool
You’re out taking your morning walk with a chubby and you accidentally run into something, what are supposed to do?
+1 Black Mirror
Similar situation here except I didn’t have kids or a wife. Dropped out with about a year and a half left. Went from part time working at a bank to full time making garbage pay. Started seeing all of my friends graduating and making 2 to 3 times as much as me. Two years after dropping out I went and finished my remaining schooling paying for it all through private loans and my salary. I’m now ten years out of college completely college debt free.
I still say college is the greatest scam pushed on to people. I learned absolutely nothing beneficial to my career in college. Work experience has been my greatest educator. I’ve watched a “friend” who holds a bachelor in finance buy a house and car he couldn’t afford and rack up insane levels of debt. If a college finance degree couldn’t teach him money management why the hell should we trust college education at all?
Finance just taught him how to dress the numbers up so they look pretty.
I also have a finance degree (finance/MIS) and did indeed learn quite a bit at school.
One of my instructors drilled into us the fact that social security was a ponzi scheme and we shouldn’t assume it won’t be there when we retire.
My ‘world energy economics’ class was awesome, and that professor made it clear that nuclear was the only tenable alternative to fossil fuel (this was in 1991 or so).
I learned plenty on the tech side too.
So you can learn plenty in school – your friend being a dumbass about his finances notwithstanding.
That said, it was also a co-op school – 5 years, 6 months of school, 6 months of working (after freshman year) – and those co-op jobs were tremendously influential (I learned what I _didn’t_ want to do – work on wall street – which was a great lesson to learn before graduation).
Going to a co-op school was the single best decision of my young life.
That said, it was also a co-op school – 5 years, 6 months of school, 6 months of working (after freshman year) – and those co-op jobs were tremendously influential (I learned what I _didn’t_ want to do – work on wall street – which was a great lesson to learn before graduation).
As somebody who also did a co-op, I heartily agree. It made class easier, it taught me a ton about real world practice, it showed me that engineering wasnt the long term career for me, it put money in my pocket, and I graduated with 18 months of work experience.
“All of France is a school, Mr. Adams, a young man merely need avail himself of the lesson.”
Article at Salon. I did not read or even click on the link. No credit for those bastards.
Here’s why economist Brad DeLong believes libertarianism is essentially a form of white supremacy
CODY FENWICK
Freedom is oppression.
I eagerly await the day the whole “explaining” trend in media dies an ignoble death.
Oh Salon… back when they were a gathering place for budding writers and freedom of speech. I broke my internet cherry on Open Salon. Jim Beaver became a friend of mine, and I actually spoke with a few well-known artists and writers. Something happened after 2010 and the site went to shit.
I think it went to shit well before 2010. For me it was around 2005. But it did get considerably more shitty ever after.
I never knew it until 2007. It must have been even better before?
It’s just the whole Civil Rights Act Public Accommodation/ Freedom of Association canard again with no context other than the false “because racism” bullshit. They’ll try to ride that train forever with no mention of the hypocrisy of what’s going on on college campuses in the same vein.
“Vanilla Ice spent the night in jail after getting in a fight with his wife.”
The day America lost its innocence.
She had to be iced iced baby.
Larf if she was carrying-on with a black dude.