My short vacation is over – back to the Link mines. I am having trouble getting going, so the links may not be up Confoederatio Helvetica standards. But by God, you shall have them, and have them on time.
So get to it!
- I have stopped following the Brexit. My last impression is that the great slime engine of the state had managed to stall…and is looking to somehow reverse the appalling decision of those grubby voters.
- OK, everyone – what do we say to slavers? In this case more like “bribers”.
- Uh, this isn’t how you join the Mile High Club.
- Fat tax raising scoundrel draws partial stink-eye of Chicago lefty newspaper. Notice what the paper does not address as well.
Have at it in the comments.
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Is that Winston’s mom on the lead photo? Looks like she’s had a hard day’s night.
No way. No one lets Winston’s mom spend the night. Much less bring coffee to her in bed.
Don’t talk that way about our girlfriend man…
You don’t pay Winston’s mom for sex, you pay her to leave.
>>Notice what the paper does not address as well.
Pritker is a Nazi?
Sorry to go OT so early, but I can’t resist sharing this one:
Salon Media Group, a one-time digital darling, has fallen on hard times. It lost its CEO of the past three years last week and appears to be on the brink of a deal to sell itself for a fire sale price of $5 million.
That’s schadenfreudalicious.
Go woke… Go broke.
You can go all SJW and try to impose your fantasies on reality, but reality gets to play right back at ya.
Did they look for him?
The Glibs hostile take over bid? Let’s start at $1 and work our way up to $10.
FTA, they couldn’t find anyone to pony up the $5m and are looking at taking a deal that only provides for a $500k down payment.
The Glibertariat could probably actually buy them if there was a concerted effort to do so.
What am I gonna do with a Salon?
Change the editorial policy and make it truly our own?
Indeed. We could slowly and deliberately start introducing our POV. But it would be a fuck-ton of work.
And the risk of brain damage that comes along with dealing with progtards is not going to be fun either.
Start writing articles about how you used to be a Progressive, but have now seen the light?
“I’m a proud Progressive, but it’s time to dissolve the Department of Education.”
and get the Bee on our bad side?
That is why we should have bought the Pontiac Silverdome in 2009 for $550K
We could have had our own Libertopia inside the Dome.
And we could probably have put together a team better than the Lions at the time.
You could recruit from local high schools and get a better team than the Lions.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1fzJ_AYajA
I knew what it was before I clicked, sadly
Catchy little tune tho
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That’s delicious.
Completely unexpected!
>>Seth Moulton unveils service plan for America’s youth
And we’re the fascists…
Work. Fight. Obey.
GoT ended retarded. But at least the person chosen to be the monarch has outstanding moral fiber.
I did enjoy the scene where the leaders of the 7 Kingdoms sat around trying to decide how to pick a new king. Was hoping they would just agree to mutual defense and decide they didn’t need a high king. I did laugh when it was suggested to let everyone vote. What terrible idea.
I read the reviews in USA today. He was not happy. My favorite part is where he compared the nobility electing a King like into the electoral college. Not a completely wrong analogy, just smiled since elective monarchy was fairly common and even in hereditary monarchies it was at the assent of the nobility.
With mixed results for Poland-Lithuania. Some were studs like Sobeski, most were duds who eventually lost the kingdom.
So they turned it into the Holy Roman Empire, if we’re sticking with historical analogies.
But at least it is over now. At least until the spin offs, and the books, and the…
Speaking of, I I’ll have to check out Game of Bones. I suspect it, too, will have loose ends, but it’ll be more fun getting there.
The books? Still keeping the faith?
There’s been some jokes/conjecture that GRRM was waiting to see how the show ended so he could pivot on his endings for the books if it was not well received. With the way this last season was, I have the feeling the books won’t quite end the same way, the big notes with Bran, Danny, Jon, Arya, etc. will probably be the same, but I expect some other editing to help it out more.
My prediction is that fat lazy bastard will croak before writing another word in the series.
^This. My theory so far is that the past two seasons have been based off of Martin’s outline. The writing has been ass, especially the dialogue, because it lacks the scaffolding of an actual, coherent, fleshed-out plot and because the writers can’t get the hang of Martin’s dialogue.
I’ll bet some time around season 5 HBO started having sincere chats with Martin about how the series was going to end, eventually getting him to crank out a rough roadmap, maybe with the agreement that they wouldn’t introduce any major plot points that diverged from his outline. That would explain why the past two seasons, particularly the final season, have seemed so abrupt; they’re deliberately skipping over blank spots that Martin intends to fill in in such a way that it colors the points that occur in the tv series.
The writers take it in a sort of happily ever after direction and a lot of details get left out. “X becomes the ruler and Y goes off and does this” is a destination that can be arrived at in any number of ways depending on the feel you want it to have when you get there.
In what timeline do the books have a an actual coherent plot?
I’m making strong presumptions here. I’ve never read them nor do I intend to do so, but based on the series up to the point where the books drop off the plot of the show is at least internally consistent.
I thought the first few books were pretty good and I liked the last one. His problem was he wrote himself into really complicated corners and couldn’t be bothered to write himself out of it.
I’m convinced that GRRM will not produce any more books in this story-line. I actually have a $500 bet with a friend on this. I think the show has muddied the waters too much now, and he would rather just say fuck it and do other things.
He’ll come out with a one page book: “And they all died.”
Yeah, I think you’re right. Or it’ll be a cursory effort that fulfills whatever contractual obligation he has. From a fiscal standpoint, this is a dream come true for him, but I would think that from the perspective of an author who values his creation this is a disaster. I seriously doubt anyone who isn’t reading the books will start now that the show is over, and now he’s hamstrung by having the remainder of the story framed out by the dopey producers.
If you won a half-$billion next week in the lottery, how much would you care about your day-job?
Shit, there’ve been times I thought if I won the Pick 3 I’d quit without notice.
Naptown – He can call it Metal Machine Book.
He should write a series about Mereen’s cock merchant guild…
I’m pretty sure that had the books been written, Sansa would have been murdered, with the “Queen in the North” bit going to Lady Stoneheart.
I don’t buy the TV Arya ending at all.
Martin was/is never going to finish those books. He would have to make choices and cut off plot lines.
The only appropriate ending was for only the dragons to survive an asteroid strike.
Now you have to wonder, with Bran knowing the future, did he orchestrate it for a power grab?
Hey, CP. Hope we’re cool about the Soph thing. We just disagree. *Shrugs*
Saul Goodman.
Apparently, the theory is it’s not Bran, but the Three Eyed Raven, who is actually a Targaryen sorcerer.
Which would make more sense if GOT had put the time in to develop the backstories.
That aside, the writing team spent years building up characters like Arya Stark and just threw away all of that development. Quite disappointing.
Bran’s the most powerful warg in that fantasy world. Did the nobles really vote for him or did he just mind-control them?
That would make more sense. The plot line of the other nation states consenting to be ruled by a Stark when the North decided to remain an independent nation was nonsensical.
Grey Worm: Not another word, Tyrion.
Tyrion goes on 10 minute soliloquy.
Bran’s king, Tyrion’s Hand, Jon Snow free, Sansa Queen.
Grey Worm: WTF?
Fuck off Grey Worm! Oh wait, sorry dude.
Reader’s Digest Grey Worm: “We hold the city and your brother, and we will stand for nothing less than his finishing his life in exile in the Night’s Watch. And now that you’ve agreed to that we’re all going to get on a boat and fuck off to my dead girlfriend’s island home far away and never return, and we’ll just trust that you hold to your side of the agreement.”
A whoooole lot of castration going on in that show. I wonder if that contributed to its popularity.
A lot of gurrrlll-power.
Horrible writing. I wish that fat lazy bastard with the choo choo hat would’ve finished the book.
The series was much better when they were based on the novels.
Yes, the TV show was so far deviated from the books that not only does the Great Question of the series go unanswered, it goes unasked
WHERE DO WHORES GO?
They totally messed that whole mental exploration of Tyrion.
They had TWO YEARS to write this last season, and they came up with 30 minutes of plot, two hours of reunion dialog, and five hours of slo-mo music video.
And they are projected to make close to a billion for that weak ass shit.
Outstanding moral fiber.
LOL
They allegedly flew to Barnstable, Mass., on Cape Cod “for the purpose of engaging in illicit conduct, specifically, a sexual act.”
Not Nantucket?
There was once a man from Nantucket
I’m reminded of the biologist who was studying the aging process in cetaceans, for some reason. He discovered that feeding the common bottlenosed dolphin a diet of nothing but seagulls resulted in the dolphin’s lifespan being extended, apparently, indefinitely.
One day he went out with a shotgun and spent the morning gathering seagulls for his research subjects. When he returned to his lab, he discovered a large lion asleep in front of the door. Moving very quietly, he carefully stepped over the lion and went into his lab, whereupon he was immediately arrested and charged with a violation of the Mann Act.
He was, you see, transporting gulls across a staid lion for immortal porpoises.
Paging Swiss.
We’re going to need a bigger gaze.
There’s no need to call in the reserves on this one, you truly are The Animal.
I’ve got a shaggy dog story that, when told correctly, takes a good ten minutes. I’ll spare you the setup, but the “punch line” is:
“I left my harp in Sam clam’s disco.”
Norm Macdonald has a similar joke, but the punchline is “He said HEY! Im serving a youthful porpoise!”
“OK, everyone – what do we say to slavers?”
Why, we tells ’em to fuck right off we does, Mr. Swiss.
And for any of you noobs here, the phrase “Fuck Off, Slavers” was the refrain of the late JsubD, a commenter at TOS who died before the founding of this site. Dude was epic. A homeless vet who posted from the public access terminals at his library.
*Hoist one for Jsub and Almanian!
Hear, hear!
Fuck off Tulpa.
*hoists*
Fuck off Tulpa
*hoists the Jolly Roger, starts slitting throats*
I rate that statement 1/2 true.
The not-yet-late P Brooks initiated the statement on TOS.
I ran with it.
JsubD picked it up also.
For a long while people on TOS were crediting me for creating it, but from a archive search by our depraved librarian determined Brooks gets the credit.
My apologies to robc and “the late P Brooks”.
Thanks, Brooks, for originating this.
No problem, for a few years I was claiming it. I wasn’t as original as I thought I was.
Present and accounted for….
‘sup Tres?
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Portent of doom
Walmart Inc, the world’s largest retailer and the country’s biggest private sector employer, on Friday revealed plans for a new corporate campus, joining rivals Amazon.com Inc and Apple in expanding their corporate campuses as President Donald Trump pressures U.S. companies to make larger investments at home.
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Bike trails that run through the heart of the campus, a massive park, fitness centers, food trucks and child care centers will be some of the amenities that will fuse with a modern aesthetic design, said Dan Bartlett, executive vice-president of corporate affairs, who is overseeing the project.
There will also be the more basic elements that go into designing a modern workplace, such as flexible open floor plans that boost collaboration and offer privacy, tall ceilings, lots of windows and light and ample parking space, he said.
That will lure the best and brightest millenials to Bentonville. Assuming they have an acceptably welcoming bathroom access policy, and free abortion on demand.
I think it might be time to short Walmart.
Hamburger University has been around for a while, but when did they start naming these creepy cultish places “campus”?
Microsoft has been referred to as a campus for 30 years.
Yeah, this started when corporations began moving their headquarters to open fields in Connecticut and such. There being nothing else around, they incorporated cafeterias and other missing elements.
I work at a place with several manufacturing facilities, and a nearby corporate office. Collectively we call it “the campus” – always been that way.
When there were multiple buildings. A single building location is an office. A multi-building location is a campus.
That’d make it Warty’s Campus.
open floor plans that boost collaboration and offer privacy
I don’t think that’s what privacy means.
They do always seem to offer privacy to the people responsible for creating the open office, though.
I would gladly live there. There seems to be a trend around here to move companies into or closer to cities to appease the millennial pukes. Was talking to somebody about a job at Mars last week (as in M&M Mars). Apparently they are moving most of their local corporate staff from Hackettstown, NJ – way out in the nice northeast NJ suburbs – to downtown Newark next year. That dropped my interest in working there significantly. I would like to have heard the conversations telling people their 5 minute daily commutes would now be an hour and a half each way.
My last employer pulled a similar move with their headquarters. Now they have an open-space headquarters in Secaucus that’s 3/4ths empty most days. Related (in my opinion) they had a bad 2018.
Or maybe they just want a more central location to attract a broader range of folks.
Maybe they don’t want late afternoon meetings?
When I worked in Newark I learned not to schedule meeting later in the afternoon. People leave early, partially because of the traffic, but also because they refused to drive through the hood after sundown.
Sign me up.
Could be tax incentives too, it occurs to me.
Oh yeah. My last employer got a big tax break for moving to a place nearly inaccessible by automobile.
The Bentonville area of NW Arkansas is very nice. Upscale restaurants and shopping, nice homes, low crime, rolling hills.
You could do a lot worse.
A couple hipster Millenial girls from work went to a conference in Bentonville. They were stunned that despite it being in Arkansas there was electricity, running water, and literacy. I’ve been wrong in the past, but I suspect this isn’t going to trigger a mass migration of coastal hipsters to flyover country so much as create a magnet for the dispersed hipster population in the area. It may impact East Nashville based on my brief time there, too.
Yeah I know a few lefties who think the South is filled with KKK members driving around in pickups terrorizing blacks. And Yankees will get beaten up on sight.
Why! Bless your heart!
I’m ok with letting them continue to think that, otherwise they’ll all want to move here.
Please tell me the offer letter says “Get your ass to Mars.”
I would like to have heard the conversations telling people their 5 minute daily commutes would now be an hour and a half each way.
Reminds me of the office move we did here. I hired on knowing that they were moving to a new space, and thus expected to calibrate my home buying search to the area around the new office. However, a year and a half later, they had delayed the decision so many times that I still had to guess where the new office would be.
The old office was in a convenient location. Easy access from almost all directions, and the traffic in that area wasn’t too bad. I guessed that they’d stay on the same thoroughfare and move to one of the newer office buildings to the south.
Nope, they moved to a town center complex to the northeast whose only convenient access is via an expensive toll road that runs northwest to southeast. If you live in any other direction, expect the last 3 miles to take 30 minutes during non-peak rush hour (915am and 630pm)
“That will lure the best and brightest millenials to Bentonville.”
I stayed in a cheap motel in Bentonville a few years back. I think Sandi was in the next room.
Where hasn’t that woman been?
“Walmart Inc, the world’s largest retailer and the country’s biggest private sector employer, on Friday revealed plans for a new corporate campus, joining rivals Amazon.com Inc and Apple in expanding their corporate campuses as President Donald Trump pressures U.S. companies to make larger investments at home.”
I know it’s not written by the same people but it’s fun to juxtapose this with the “Wal-Mart” proves Central planning articles. Cause that pressure from Trump is just taste of political Central planning.
Walmart’s current headquarters looks like a run down high school. They’re probably overdue for a revamp.
What’s so great about eating food out of a truck? Can’t they just build a cafeteria into the plan and call it something hipsterish?
What’s so great about eating food out of a truck?
Exhaust fumes in the mix means no need to invest in a spice rack.
Lower initial capital investment = lower barrier to entry -> more competitors = more competition -> food nirvana -> brick and mortar restaurants complain to city council -> food truck ban, er, “regulations” -> Not Adahn can’t get his favorite tenderloin sandwich and fries anymore.
And we’re the fascists…
Don’t forget authoritarian.
They allegedly flew to Barnstable, Mass., on Cape Cod “for the purpose of engaging in illicit conduct, specifically, a sexual act.”
Bring back the Mann Act.
You asked for it
Justin Amash, a party of one
“hard core libertarian”
He’s never hung out here…
That we know about.
Yeah, I saw that yesterday because my FB feed started blowing up with progs reporting this but not sure what to say about it.
Unfortunately, failure to rule out running is a long way from actually doing so.
I don’t get it. Sure Amash can be a true believer but I don’t see anything to be gained by him doing this.
He’s still a politician. The best we can hope is happening behind closed doors is paid sex.
hard core libertarian of the Ron Paul variety
Looking less so as of late.
RE: Mile High Club.
Thus proving my theory that people get stupid over two things: money and sex, and it seems like the latter much more often. The guy is a zillionaire and could have been drilling 20 and 30 year-olds until the cows come home, but instead he loses everything because he needed to nail a high schooler.
*smh*
More to the point is he could have had a series of just-turned-eighteen girls lined up and dump them just before they turned twenty. Standard contract.
So, my tour of visiting Glibs is nearing, and the schedule is getting settled.
On May 25, I’m slated to say hi to Not Adahn before continuing on to Ottowa. The Canadian leg of my trip goes from there to Thunder Bay. I do not believe there are any Northern Glibs along that route who have expressed interest in being pestered by me as I pass.
On May 30, I’m slated to arrive in Superior, WI. I believe Pistoffnick offered to meet in that area, but no details have been set.
On May 31, (a Friday) I was going up to Soudan/Ely to visit the iron mines. I believe it was Stillhunter who was in that area and expressed interest in a meetup, but no details have been set.
Somewhere in here, Fourscore lives, but no details have been set.
On June 1, I’m slated to arrive in Fargo, meet up with MikeS and avoid being pushed into a woodchipper.
On June 2, I’m slated to head to the Twin Cities and Meet with Pope Jimbo and Leap. There are rumors that there will be a Tundra sighting there as well. Though he does have a track record…
On June 3, I’m headed in the direction of Green Bay to meet CPRM at a place that makes bacon.
On June 5, I’m to make a large circle around Chicagoland and overnight near Indianapolis. Nothing is supposed to happen there.
On June 6, I proceed to Port Clinton, Ohio, and possibly visit a bakery in Overlin.
On June 7, I drive past Cleveland on my way to Upstate New York and the road back to my house.
If I missed someone, or if you are along that route and would like to meet, Now’s a good time to remind me.
Go to the Rock ‘n Roll HOF.
I’m to make a large circle around Chicagoland
#Metoo
“Somewhere in here, Fourscore lives, but no details have been set”
latvia2112 at yahoo. use “Cabin” in the subject box. Hope to see you, UCS.
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Depending on when you’re coming through Cleveland, I’d be up for meeting up for a bite. All of Cleveland isn’t a vast wasteland.
Evening of June 6 Is most viable time, assuming you work days.
I do work days, Friday is usually a work from home day, and I’m free June 6th as well. But feel free to hit me up at my handle at Google’s mail service.
sent
lucky_nickel at proton mail.com
Even if we can’t get together (My daughter has a choir concert that night), I can give you suggestions.
scrunch that e-mail together
Moulton would also build a Federal Green Corps to combat climate change,
Bring your own machette.
So it’s like the Job Corps but won’t teach any useful skills or add any value to the economy. (the opposite in both cases probably)
Sounds more like the Hutu Corps.
Did you mean to say corpse?
Cue the marching yutes with shovels
Minnesodans changing lives! . (I know we’ve posted about Minne Somali gal posing in SI in a burkini before, but this tongue bath is extra bad)
You know what would be even more life changing? If you posed in a real bikini and set an example for all those girls that you don’t have to cover yourself up just because of a shitty religion.
I’m still disappointed it wasn’t a skin paint burkini.
“wearing a hijab and burkini”
I would be about as exciting at Ms Aden if I came out in a hijab and a burkininny. Don’t look, Ethel !
+2 boogidah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtzoUu7w-YM
I’s standin’ over there by the tomaters
And here he come
Running through the pole beans
Through the fruits and vegetables
Nekkid as a jay bird
And I hollered over t’ Ethel
I said, “Don’t look, Ethel!”
But it’s too late
She’d already been incensed.
For some reason I’ve started getting SI in the mail despite having never subscribed and not being charged for it. I can’t tell if it’s a gag or I won the lamest prize or what. Anyway, I saw the bikini issue and, well, held on to it because the chick on the front is cute and I’m a degenerate. Anyhoo, imagine my surprised as I flipped through the thing and found several pictures of a slim brown lady in series of jaunty wetsuits! How fun!
Seriously though, lots of religions have prohibitions that I don’t subscribe to. I eat pork like it killed my father, for instance. I use electricity on Saturday. I work on the Sabbath. I have absolutely committed the sin of adultery according to the technical definition of premarital sex. I drink booze. But, the difference to me between all that kind of stuff and the hijab business is that there are rational purposes behind a lot of that stuff, and where there isn’t there’s at least the fact that it applies across the board. To the best of my knowledge, a ton of sharia is based around the principle that women are inferior in all sense of the word to men. It doesn’t make sense, and it’s shitty to boot. And what pisses me off the most about that is the radfems who fuck up Star Wars and yell at westerns don’t say one word about a set of religious practices that treat women as property.
the difference to me between all that kind of stuff and the hijab business is that there are rational purposes behind a lot of that stuff
Modesty in clothing & appearance isn’t unique to Islam.
True that:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061252/mediaviewer/rm1997128448
Make Repression Great Again?
Greetings fellow deviants. I am returned from a voyage to the shores of Las Vegas, which reminded me again why (along with Atlanta and Miami) it is my least favorite city in the US. But I did have a good time with my son, who correctly observed, while we were taking a stroll up the Strip, that, “Wow, Dad, this is quite a freak show!”
Compared to Newark or Detroit or Baltimore or Fresno or Little Rock or….?
El. Paso.
^^^^ This.
But… but…
What can me more libertarian than the town where I fell in love with (buttex with) a Mexican girl (while high on marijuana)?
El Paso has the Sun Bowl.
They headed down to, ooh, old El Paso (clap clap clappa clap)
Ha ha ha!
I was told once upon a time – “El Paso is a good place to be from”
Yes, even that.
When was your last Detroit trip? It has changed since 1950.
About a year ago, fwiw. It’s a pit, but far more tolerable that Vegas. And Zingerman’s is close by, which makes up for a lot.
I think of Vegas less as a city and more the way I think of Disneyland or Dollywood. It is a tacky amusement park.
A *really* tacky amusement park with a high percentage of freaks and derelicts. And not much fun to do unless you love tossing your money in a trash can (the one exception: seeing Penn & Teller).
You know I’ve never been to Vegas – not a big gambler – and now my interest in going has diminished even more.
Food and shows, that usually gets me thru the typical convention.
As far as convention cities go, New Orleans has got to be the worst. If you get lucky, you can find an authentic Creole restaurant, if you don’t then you’ll end up bleeding out in an alley.
I haven’t been in more than a decade. There used to be some decent restaurants and some expensive amusements. A shooting range that would rent you class III NFA stuff for an hour, car rentals that would rent you a Ferrari or Lambo, helicopter tours of the Grand Canyon (which I highly recommend), but yeah mostly it is hotels designed by a cross between Disney and Hefner, that you only see on the ride from the airport because it is always too hot to walk around much, and casinos full of people drunk on well liquor cocktails losing their savings.
There are some nice things to see near Vegas, actually – Mt Charleston and Red Rock Canyon, for example. I don’t mind a little mild gambling now and then, so when I lived in Vegas my friends and I would go occasionally for a weekend. Stay at the cheap hotels and go to the cheap casinos – I forget the name of it now, but there was one that had dollar blackjack that I used to play.
I had fun, but I can see why someone wouldn’t. My wife has zero interest in gambling so she’s never wanted to go there.
My first time in NO, I was there for a science conference/trade show (Pittcon, for those of you who are into that sort of thing). This was maybe 1985. We had a fabulous time, mostly because my boss was cousins with Paul Prudhomme, K-Paul’s was the hot ticket, and we went to the front of the line and didn’t ever see menus.
There are some nice things to see near Vegas, actually
The Boy and I took the walk across the bridge near Boulder Dam. Other than what must have been a hundred signs touting the wonders of some politician it was named after, and the packs of Chinese who had driven in (badly) from CA, it was pretty cool. I was VERY unhappy about having to have my car inspected by security guards before we could park in the lot…
Post-Katrina NO is a shithole. Larry Flynt owns half the French Quarter.
If you go to New Orleans, and spend all or even much of your time in the French Quarter, you’re missing out.
Huh. I would have thought that a Cat5 hurricane would have changed something.
Nature’s bidet?
New Orleans has great food. It also has the worst climate imaginable, smells like a hobo with dysentary, crime levels that make a 3 block walk from your hotel to a restaurant as risky as a trip to Mogadishu, and crowds of tourists. My personal ranking of hate for major cities is:
1. Detroit (nothing worth doing, and it is depressing seeing how fragile our civilization really is)
2. Washington (museums are cool, monuments are ok, but…)
3. New Orleans
A Jew who hates Miami???
I’m a very shitty Jew.
I was in Miami last month, and once again, my prejudices were confirmed.
We were there last Thursday and Friday. My father in law got whipped by some S & M girls as he walked by. Good times.
“My significant other died six months ago from a long-term illness. In our 25 years together, we had a 25-year-old daughter and a 21-year-old son”
Is “husband” a dirty word? Or just unwoke?
“During that time, he had an illegitimate son who is also 21 years old, just a few months older than our son. I didn’t even meet this son until he was 15.”
OK, so your “significant other” was a dog. Got that.
“After my significant other’s death, he began living with me and my son. About a month ago, I developed a sexual relationship with my significant other’s son.”
I… what??
“My children have now disowned me, calling the relationship disgusting, a poor decision, and inappropriate.”
I guess stupidity skips a generation.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/05/dear-prudence-having-sex-dead-boyfriends-son.html
Wait. Is she boinking her own son? Or the significant other’s other son?
The son of no relation. Though if they have kids… The relationship between cousins gets weird.
It’s not that complicated.
Are people just coming up with backstories for pornhub videos now?
Great idea. I’ve been kicking around trying to make as coherent as possible an argument for Gamboltarianism. (Sometime before we land on the moon again, I swears.)
That sort of article would add a certain sort of serious, contemplative character that would cement our reputation as a legitimate alternative to you-know-who.
Legitimacy? Who wants that?
Only bastards dream of legitimacy
My article has been submitted only to be upstaged by Pie, whose own UBI article runs tomorrow.
Hopefully everyone can recover from talking about how bad a UBI is in Pie’s article to talk about how bad it is in my article too. I really hope I bring a perspective or detail that is different than Pie’s.
And if it doesn’t, I will pull my article after his run’s tomorrow.
No, don’t. It would be good to have different rationales on UBI — even if you wind up with the same conclusion.
UBI is a big topic. It’s not like we can only support one article about that. We’ve had multiple articles on guns, education, etc.
Perhaps instead of pull, they could reschedule for a later date if you don’t want to follow Pie too closely?
Never let a good article go to waste.
I figure there will be at least a week gap between them.
Exactly a week gap, it is on the calendar for exactly 1 week after Pie’s. I guess we will be having UBI Tuesday for a while.
Hey, it beats UTI Tuesday.
As long as it isn’t, “We can’t have UBI because the welfare programs we’d cut would come back and we’d be left with both.”
My article is in support of UBI, it doesnt argue against in any way. But that is one of the clear negatives, unless you can guarantee otherwise.
Burden on you, then.
Just to be clear, I personally oppose it, but the goal of the series of articles is to make the best possible case for a policy you oppose.
Sort of a, if we did it, here is how we should do it.
In case anyone else is thinking of writing one, here is the template:
[standard libertarian disclaimer]
text of article
[/sld]
I have one in a partial state of drafting for the EPA
This has got to be some sort of omen.
My Husband Initiates Sex With an Absurd, Demeaning Act
How do I get him to stop?
“He also focuses on my breasts and vagina to the exclusion of the rest of my body”
If you want someone who doesn’t do that, you might need to switch teams.
What she really needs is a dude who’s still in the closet.
No, because one day he’ll meet that certain special someone and leave her even more damaged.
She needs to learn to communicate her needs positively (“I want you to do this”) instead of complaining about things and leaving everyone in the position of reading her mind. Or perhaps engage in honest self-evaluation to decide if she is asexual.
Quick Poll for Glibs: Should asexuals have to disclose that before someone buys them a drink?
Not before someone buys them a drink, definitely before wedding bells.
If you’re asexual and meeting guys in a bar, there’s a problem already brewing.
Apparently not all asexuals are aromantic. IOW, they want a partner, just not into sex. That must be a really terrible place to be.
Sounds like a market for a niche dating app – romatic asexuals.
I read that as “aromatic asexuals”
But more seriously, she would be better served meeting partners at a book club. At least they would have something to talk about.
Oops, that’s because I left out an “n”. Dating app for asexual people with romantic yearnings.
I thought a romatic person was someone who smelled like a gypsy.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YdlVAvjvKec
Asexual Icon.
Not sure if I really even believe in asexuals (a term which also seems like a misnomer)
An asexual (I hope) pickup in a bar that is going to work out just fine.
Also:
“I know a gay guy who has used “Nice tits” as a pickup line in bars.”
Ummm… am I missing something here?
Moobs.
STEVE SMITH WILLING TO DEMONSTRATE TECHNIQUE. BY TECHNIQUE MEAN RAPE, BUT THINK YOU ALREADY KNOW THAT.
Oh come on.
“He also focuses on my breasts and vagina to the exclusion of the rest of my body.”
So what is it you actually want, dear? Foot fetishism? Butt worship?
“Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.”
File for divorce, get at least three cats.
HAH HAH HAH!
Tell me this Sugar Tits, how many times have you initiated sex with him? Or do you always make him start off the sexy times?
Maybe if you want him to suck your toes (or whatever non-tit/pussy part of your body you are into) you should start things off by saying something like “get down on your knees and start mouth fucking Little Piggy”
Most guys will do just about anything you want if it leads to some bedroom gymnastics.
If his exact words are, “suck my penis”, that is demeaning.
“Perform your evolutionary duty female.”
Because a real man would say cock, hawg or dick instead of penis?
You like chicken? Put this in your mouth. It’s fowl.
I love Poultry Pops!
Appropriate.
12 inches of turkey neck!
Some people like for it to be a little demeaning sometimes. But I suspect that even if he did romance her that she’d still not be satisfied.
For a guy that plays for the other team, you sure as hell read her real well man. I suspect this woman, now matter how good things are, will always find and focus on something she can complain about.
That’s why I initiate by telling (not asking) my wife to “eat a dick, bitch” *looks around nervously to make sure wife is no where around*
Well, thank feminism for fucking that up, lady. Just about 95% of the foreplay arsenal got nuked by “affirmative consent” and fear of being accused of sexual assault. Also, maybe you shouldn’t have married your boss.
Also, maybe you shouldn’t have married your boss.
So you want her to marry some other woman? Because if she is hetero she is sort of doomed to marry her boss isn’t she?
*looks around nervously to see if Doc Oc’s wife is around and will blab to my wife*
“This is NOT how it happened in Fifty Shades of Grey!”
Mommy porn…
It’s funny how my oppressed backward housewife can find her voice when she wants or doesn’t want something, but these empowurdd strungg wamen seem to cower in the corner when it comes to expressing their wants.
Modern feminism is the attachment of moral judgment to the fact that men can’t read insecure women’s minds.
I mean, pretty much. The women I know who take for granted that women are oppressed in the workplace are stay-at-home moms with a bunch of disposable income or mid-level executives. The ones that work make more than I do. I’m not saying there isn’t discrimination, but I am saying that certainly in this day and age it’s the exception rather than the rule. And yeah, you know, it’s tough to find the time to learn about how oppressed women are when all my free time is divided between work, housework, landscaping, and being the family accountant.
In my experience, the ones who fall for the oppression narrative are the ones who work in mixed gender work environments. The ones in primarily feminine jobs and/or at home tend to be less susceptible.
Maybe that’s a function of me working in a proggie infested profession and my social circle being very conservative.
just taking it out and shaking it at me
“Every time I whip it out…”
RELEASE THE KRAKEN!
“so if he’s gotten mad at me for something work-related, it can feel like my personhood gets shuffled aside.”
When you get turned on by power, as both of you seem to, that IS foreplay. Perhaps you’re not turned on by power as you once were, although trying to get another person to change for you suggests you’re as lustful of power as ever.
We’re all handmaids now.
“Are you in a Handmaid’s Tale outfit?” Colin Jost asked Jones.
“Well, basically, we’re all handmaids now, so my name is actually, of Jost,” the actress replied, mimicking the Handmaid’s Tale naming system. “But I don’t know how good of a baby-maker I’m going to be because my eggs is dusty as hell. But I’ll give it a shot.”
“I don’t think our society is quite there yet,” Jost replied, giving the sane response to rabid pro-abortion protesters.
“You would think that. But this is how it starts,” Jones argued. “I’m out living my life, then I see on the news a bunch of states are trying to ban abortion, and then tell me what I can and can’t do with my body. Next thing you know, I’m in Starbucks and they can’t take my credit card because I’m a woman, instead of the regular reason which is I don’t have no money on it.” This referred to another Handmaid’s Tale scene recalling women suddenly losing their rights to work and spend money.
“And what made me so mad was seeing the 25 Alabama senators who voted for the abortion ban,” the actress continued. “Look at them. All men. This looked like the casting call for a Lipitor commercial.”
She really keeps things in perspective. But I don’t get where not being able to kill a baby in the womb up to and including when it crosses the birth canal equates to being forcibly used as a baby factory for pro-creation.
SNL is trying really hard to be even shittier than ever. It gets harder every year.
“Next thing you know, I’m in Starbucks and they can’t take my credit card because I’m a woman”
What the fuck does this have to do with anything, aside from being absurd and untrue?
Well it will obviously be Starbucks leading the War on Women. Look how hard they came down on the black non-customers who want to loiter in their stores. Those guys are even worse than Chik-Fil-A!
I love it when they become unhinged and start ranting.
Stunning and brave.
If only it was funny.
All these childless actresses must either be celibate or have a standing monthly appointment at the abortion mill since apparently none of them are aware of any other method of avoiding reproduction.
“Next thing you know, I’m in Starbucks and they can’t take my credit card because I’m a woman…”
Everyone knows the only legitimate reason for denying the use of credit card services is participation in the firearms industry.
She seems fun.
Neither rain, nor snow, nor dark of night will prevent Mammary Monday from making its appointed bounces.
https://thechive.com/2019/05/20/got-is-over-but-luckily-flbp-is-just-beginning/
I notice the outfit #5 has on seems to be getting more and more common in these spreads. Not that I’m complaining.
While a fairly revealing swimsuit by design, I think #5 bought at least one size too small to reveal more. Old trick.
That is a hell of a lot of daddy issues.
Tens of thousands of North Korean women ‘sold into China sex trade and systemically raped’
A human trafficking story I actually believe.
Probably better than staying home.
^Sadly, this.
They don’t get food or any other compensation at home…
Where is the feminist outrage over this? The progressive demands that the US “do something” about this? Like boycott, divest, sanction?
What? Why is everyone looking at me like that?
They’re too busy being HandMaids?
Feminists object to Trump cozying up to dictators. Suppose we could bomb them to keep them from getting raped.
Walmart’s current headquarters looks like a run down high school. They’re probably overdue for a revamp.
My theory is when a company begins work on a CEO-vanity-project like this, they have lost their way.
Sam knew better than to piss away money on frippery.
Maybe. If they start building an Apple-style spaceship, it’s over, but I bet they keep it more modest and to the point.
My dentist keep re-vamping his office. I liked it better when his furniture looked like it had been there since the 80s. Dental work does not need to make me feel good about “purchasing” it- I do not need gentle music, ferns, and Wayfair “mid Modern” furniture to encourage me get dental work done.
That kind of shit is all about attracting new patients, especially moms.
And the current customers are paying for it…
and is looking to somehow reverse the appalling decision of those grubby voters.
Something something “will never be slaves”.
Seth Moulton unveils service plan for America’s youth
Do you know who else?
Had eyes that close together?
Ryan Gosling?
Mr. Potatohead?
You share an iCloud account with the girl you’re cheating on? What a rookie mistake.
https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Is-revenge-porn-protected-by-the-constitution-13857363.php
“Hey, those laws weren’t meant to be applied to women!”
– Standard Feminist
‘ThoughtCrime’ Is Becoming a Reality
The Prog-Muslim Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact to break traditional western culture. When whitey is a humbled minority, they’ll turn on each other.
That’s a good simile.
In the sidebar:
“Fox Should Take Corrective Action Against Juan Williams”
for some rather innocuous remarks they seem to be antisemitic. That site seems to have problems with the imposition of certain thoughtcrimes and is perfectly fine with the imposition of others.
For a long while people on TOS were crediting me for creating it, but from a archive search by our depraved librarian determined Brooks gets the credit.
I would vigorously defend my authorship of some things; “Krugabe” for instance. If I was the originator of “Fuck off, slaver” I happily release it into the public domain.
It doesn’t matter, I and JsubD treated it like China treats copyright.
“Krugabe” is great. It’s no “Mutton Flaps”, but damn good.
*Tears up royalty check.
Sorry for the misattribution. And thanks for that contribution to glib culture. Srsly.
Go BLUES!
NSW Blues?
Rich white men rule America. How much longer will we tolerate that for?
Preventing the tyranny of the majority is how you keep your populace from murdering each other in the streets. It’s worked pretty well for us so far excepting that little kerfluffle back in the 1860s.
*let the racism flow through you, Nathan*
Nathan, since there are two of us and one of you, we represent the majority. We have decided that a pineapple needs to be shoved up your ass. Because that’s what the majority wants.
It’s a fair cop.
” The supreme court is the highest branch of government, in that it can overturn the decisions of the other two branches. ”
Yes. But unfortunately it only seems to do so to increase government power (see Qualified Immunity). It’s like they think that is something was voted on it should be the law regardless of whether or not it was infringing on someone’s rights.
Case in point the abortion bans. No one talking about how that’s democracy in action.
that is not democracy in action because most legislators were white men
Yes.
No. The Congress is actually the mightiest branch of government, in that it is the only one that can defund the other branches and also remove people from office. Granted, they don’t use that power hardly ever, but it is there, dormant, waiting for a “Prime Minister” type to use it.
So. Much. Ignorance. and. Stupidity.
Put on your surprised faces. Turns out that St. Paul school upgrade costs ballooned from $292M to $471M due to – alleged – incompetence. The person in charge hasn’t been fired, disciplined and in fact was defended by many in the article.
Also this gem should be noted and filed in the Nothing Left to Cut file:
Why is there $93M in special bonds for desegregation in 2019?
Read two comments bellow at number 35. As long as white supremacy is the leading doctrine desegregation bonds are necessary.
To create jobs for the quota queens who figure out which ghetto hellhole little Johnny needs to be bused across town to… And the bus drivers, will nobody think of the schoolbus drivers?
Take away the tax incentives and nobody in their right mind would buy a muni bond.
No sum is to great for the children…
If the schools were private imagine the billions lost to evil profit.
So it wasn’t copacetic?
Bartiromo: I’m really glad you brought that up; the FBI agents’ discussion with George Papadopoulos. Because when the FBI sends in informants to someone they’re looking at, typically those conversations are recorded right? Those people are wired?
Gowdy: Yeah, I mean if the bureau is going to send an informant in, the informant is going to be wired; and if the bureau is monitoring telephone calls there’s going to be a transcript of that.
And some of us have been fortunate enough to know whether or not those transcripts exist; but they haven’t been made public and I think one in-particular is going – it has the potential to actually persuade people. Very little in this Russia probe I’m afraid is going to persuade people who hate Trump, or who love Trump, but there is some information in these transcripts that I think has the potential to be a game-changer if it’s ever made public.
Bartiromo: You say that’s exculpatory evidence and when people see that they’re going to say: wait, why wasn’t this presented to the court earlier?
Gowdy: Yeah, you know, Johnny Ratcliffe is rightfully exercised over the obligations that the government has to tell the whole truth to the court when you are seeking permission to spy, or do surveillance, on an American. And part of that includes the responsibility of providing exculpatory information, or information that tends to show the person did not do something wrong. If you have exculpatory information, and you don’t share it with the court, that ain’t good. I’ve seen it, Johnny’s seen it, I’d love for your viewers to see it.
I’m sure Sen. Spartacus will be along shortly to read those classified transcripts out into the public record soon. Even if he risks being charged with a felony.
Seriously, the amount of shenanigans the govt drones get away with because they classify everything is astonishing. Trump should unilaterally declassify everything and stick to it this time.
*sighs*
Maria Bartiromo…
*stares wistfully out window*
Yeah, she and and Lori Rothman were my favorite Fox News Milfs back when I still watched FN/FBN.
What the hell ever happened to Lori anyway?
Manic Monday: Does That Mean We Can Stop Trying So Hard Now?
Well shit, I guess any decent and hard-working individual must be a white supremacist.
>>“White supremacy is characterized by perfectionism, a belief in meritocracy, and the Protestant work ethic,
Well you just described my dad.
and MLK Jr…
The mask is now completely off.
I wonder how they feel about Japanese culture.
Toxic, but not as toxic as white culture?
Wait till they hear about Japanese immigration policies.
Ah, good old Pacific Educational Group is in the mix and hoovering up a bunch of money from the taxpayers.
Not to sugar coat it, but Pacific Educational Group was not very popular in Tundra and I’s district.
my school system doesn’t show up on their client list but the county next door does. and our school supernintendo is a hardcare prog “equity over equality” nutbag so it’s possible they’re hiding any involvement from public documents.
Huh….the hardest-working dude I’ve ever known in my life was in the Marines, a kid from Belize. I’ll bet he’d be surprised to know that he’s a white supremacist.
TIL that hard work, self-discipline, and a sense of fairness are actually linked to melanin production. Who knew?
“White supremacy is characterized by perfectionism, a belief in meritocracy, and the Protestant work ethic”
I don’t see what this serves other than to make white supremacists look like decent people.
It seems to be working at its intended goal which is driving out wypipo.
The astounding part is that while I’ve heard that bullshit before, it’s now being used to upend actual society and is not just the blatherings of some idiot genders studies professor.
belief in meritocracy
We’re all white-supremacists now.
I always thought “Protestant Work Ethic” was one of those phrases like “military intelligence”.
Would these people prefer the Catholic work ethic or the Jewish work ethic or the Muslim work ethic?
It’s work smarter not harder.
Build a wall!
The little-noticed surge across the U.S.-Mexico border: It’s Americans heading south
pickleball ? I don’t wanna know
A colleague’s wife plays. He described it. I swear the people who came up with it were drunk.
Retire to Mexico? What an extraordinary new development. ?
Huh, the place where we have gone every year for the last seven years in Mexico just got a pickle ball club. I had never even heard of it before I saw the place. There are a ton of American and Canadian retirees in that area. It is one of the best pelagic and on shore fisheries in the world as well as being sunny and hot all year long.
So how bout the Eurovision huh?
My urologist always wears his glasses.
::blank stare::
Like Creme Brulee in ’81?
“I think I still have a copy around here. . . “
Such a thoroughly brilliant show. The Legz Akimbo Theatre Troupe – “Put Yourself In A Child“
The UK contestant still tied up in the basement?
What a shithole, ch 6,812
Housing is out of reach for young workers, which is why so many are living with their parents and postponing marriage. Yet Trump keeps cutting affordable housing.
More argument by assertion. It’s all Trump’s fault.
The Guardian is apparently more concerned with the US than it’s own country these days.
>>Robert Reich
Is all one needs to know about that article.
WTF does that even mean?
Trump Towers for everyone?!
Trump is sending bulldozers and wrecking balls around the country to tear down cheap apartments. Didn’t you know about that?
Easy, my friend. Orange Man Bad.
He’s behind all of those tough local zoning laws, doncha know.
I suspect HUD or some other federal agency failed to dump money out of helicopters at the hoped-for growth rate, but I’m too lazy to check.
A growing number of Britons are turning to online fundraising for essential treatment in a desperate, ‘Dickensian’ attempt to get around NHS shortfalls. But does it work?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/may/20/when-survival-is-a-popularity-contest-the-heartbreak-of-crowdfunding-healthcare
They should die peacefully, like the tax cattle they are, knowinh the NHS did everything they could.
One of the sob-stories is a teenager who doesn’t want to wait three years for “top surgery”.
Fuuuuuuck
I have a relative in Britain who hurt her knee skiing in February and expects surgery in august… After 2 visits in which they said nothing was wrong and a third for an mri which took 3 months in total. Whatever you say on government healthcare, in Britain it aint workin
But this wasn’t a predictable consequence of nationalization of health. Nope. No one could have seen this coming.
No it is just evil Torries under-funding the system. It is perfect in Spain or so I read in the Guardian
Economists say the darndest things
A federal tax on soda could benefit the public good, according to an economic analysis being released Monday.
“What we’re trying to do is evaluate whether soda taxes are good or bad overall for society,” said Dmitry Taubinsky, an assistant professor of economics at the University of California-Berkeley, and one of the authors of the paper.
——–
Taubinsky, along with economists from the University of Pennsylvania and New York University, developed a cost-benefit analysis and suggested that a federal tax on soda at a rate between 1 and 2.1 cents an ounce would be the “optimal” tax with the greatest public benefit.
Other research has looked at whether soda taxes reduce consumption or help improve health outcomes. Taubinsky said his group’s research is the first to weigh several factors together, including tax revenues, health outcomes, effect on health-care costs, the impact of soda taxes on low-income residents, and the enjoyment people get from soda that makes them likely to drink it even when they know it’s unhealthy.
Analyzing those factors and calculating a rate that would result in the greatest benefit, they concluded that a national tax on soda would yield as much as $7 billion a year in net welfare to society.
“Net welfare to society”? Okay, then.
What are you taxing, the syrup or the water? Or the CO2? Or prepared soda by…what, volume? Container? Right off the bat, setting aside the moral legitimacy of such a tax, I can see more than a few problems you’ll have with assessing and collecting it.
Taubinsky, along with economists from the University of Pennsylvania and New York University, developed a cost-benefit analysis and suggested that a federal tax on soda at a rate between 1 and 2.1 cents an ounce would be the “optimal” tax with the greatest public benefit.
Ah the tried and trusted pull stuff out of anus method of research
If you are an economist working for Government you face a stark choice. 1. Tell the truth, that government interventions are always a net loss, that macroeconomics is an entirely descriptive discipline completely incapable of prediction, and that hands off policies are the best you can do. In which case you are arguing that your job is largely unnecessary and should be cut or 2. Lie and advocate for various interventions as massively beneficial, proclaim your great ability at prediction and manipulation and watch the sweet sweet power and budget roll in. Which do you expect to happen?
Or it “could” do no such thing. Only way to find out is to impose it and see what happens!
Why not stop subsidizing sugar and corn?
And imperil our national security!?
I wonder if they factored this in…
https://www.amazon.com/Hamilton-Beach-Fizzini-Hand-Held-Carbonated/dp/B00EUAH58G/ref=sr_1_8?crid=2E1H77XTSYQGJ&keywords=soda+maker&qid=1558363848&s=gateway&sprefix=soda+ma%2Caps%2C131&sr=8-8
I don’t know what they’re looking at in those studies, but it can’t be places that have enacted such a tax. What we’ve seen so far is something like this.
1) Enact a tax, which will decrease the amount of soda sales. And maybe generate some tax income, you know, as a side effect. NBD.
2) After tax is enacted, sales drop more than expected and there is less tax collected than expected.
3) Complain loudly about the tax revenue shortfall.
I am not sure sales will drop long term. In general after such a tax sales drop because people stock up before, but after a while they get back up
Or they shop just outside the boundary of the tax.
Every place a cigarette tax is imposed “to pay for smokers’ healthcare burden on society” follows the same trend.
The problem is that they are trying to delicately balance two opposite things.
1) We want people to drink less soda so they are healthier.
2) We want people to drink the same amount of soda and pay tax on it so we can get tax money.
They want to increase the tax enough to encourage some people to cut back or stop, but not too many people, because we still want enough people to pay that tax. Basically, selectively shaping and predicting behavior for everyone in the country. Good luck with that.
3) We have to tax diet sodas same as regular sodas because diet sodas is what bougie crackers drink, and we can’t have a regressive tax on minority soda drinkers.
Fuck “sin” taxes. Who picks the “sin” we tax? I got a list of “sins” I’d like to discourage, how about they give me 10.00 every time they violate my policy.
Would that be $10 per law? $10 per specific regulation? $10 per page of regulations?
Article, please.
Excise taxes are the most regressive taxes the feds impose.
You can always spot a moron when the only tax history they ever say anything about is federal income tax. These people think all taxation is justified as long as there is some vague “representation”, no matter how watered-down and ineffective the representation is.
Also when someone says “X percent of people don’t pay federal taxes” and they mean only income tax and forget about payroll taxes and excise taxes.
They’ll defend taxes even if there isn’t any representation. I was a pissed off 18 year old when I found out I had to pay city income tax both in the city I worked, and the city I lived in. Where was my representation in the city I worked in? One answer that someone gave me was, “The company you work for.” Even though McDonald’s (or to be more specific, the company running the McDonald’s I worked at) didn’t get a vote either.
FCC chairman backs T-Mobile, Sprint merger
How did we come to the point where two businesses have to ask permission from the government to merge?
Two failing businesses at that.
Granted there is murky water with Telecom, because of spectrum management. However that could easily be handled within the free market.
If only some top economist, lets call him Ronald Coase, had written something on that exact topic that could be followed.
“When Coase was commissioned by the Rand Corporation to craft a spectrum property system in 1962, the paper was suppressed when referees warned the think tank that violent reactions from the government and industry would shrink funding.”
We reached that point about a century ago.
STEVE SMITH NEED NO PERMISSION TO MERGE WITH HIKER
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7048765/Demi-Rose-PICTURE-EXCLUSIVE-Model-barely-contains-modesty-eye-watering-white-bikini.html
I link this because based on what I know on old school Ottoman, they preferred women with more meat on the bones so she would not be out of place is a harem…
Wow, series finale of GoT looking good.
no spoilers
Spoiler Alert:
Demi Rose takes the Throne and has a haremWhat did the Ottomans think about ass implants?
What about the donkeys?
I’m pretty sure the Ottomans implanted a lot of things in asses. Particularly the asses of young Christian boys.
Don’t assume their gender! After all many of those persons you so callously refer to as boys had undergone at least one step of the transitioning process.
Fair enough.
I don;t think there were particularly fussy about the supposed religion.
I think those pics have helped me figure out what it is that bothers me about that look. It’s that her hips are wider than her shoulders. She’s pear-shaped, and I think she does it on purpose. I mean, she’s a grown woman and she doesn’t need my approval to live her life, but I think it’s a shame. She’s cute, and if she was proportionate she’d be really attractive, I think. As it is, I’d still be down for whatever even in her centaur configuration if she was, like, fun to hang out with or an excellent conversationalist. Again, not that she spends her time wondering what she can do to get my attention.
Just for the hell of it.
Ha
Gah!
Are you saying you would?
Feral Parrots Are Taking Over America
Wut? No Global Warming link?
We have an army of parrots around here. They sound like dinosaurs. There’s never less than two of them at any one time.
Technically, they are dinosaurs.
Adapt or die.
Apparently parrots believe in evolution.
Are they any good to eat?
Clearly yes:
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/images/bigpot6.jpg
That’s a toucan. Not a parrot.
When I lived in Florida, they were like pigeons.
“How do parrots survive in a foreign habitat? ”
Probably the same way Rock Pigeons, English Sparrows, and Starlings do.
The Federalist is a bit preachy at times, but this is an interesting read.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/20/sexual-autonomy-worth-cost-human-lives/
Worth checking out.
As with any headline that asks a question….
Yes. Next question.
Or to be more specific “Is My Sexual Autonomy Worth The Cost To Human Lives?” Yes.
I agree. From a pragmatic standpoint, there are methods of preventing pregnancy that are far more effective than many medical prophylactics, so I don’t have a tremendous amount of sympathy for “unplanned” pregnancies. Beyond that, if you can’t emotionally handle sleeping around, then don’t do it.
The article is interesting to me in that as cataclysmic a shift in humanity as the decoupling of sex and reproduction is, we are just barely beginning to see the fallout of it. Does that mean we should endeavor to “go backward” as the article seems to suggest? Even if it were a good idea, it would be impossible. Can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube. The part of the sexual revolution that irks me is the implicit idea that I must be affected by/pay for other people’s behavior. If it truly were a question of autonomy, then it would be straightforward. However, the loudest voices are always the ones rejecting personal responsibility.
I disagree. The Greeks wrote about how you could avoid getting a woman pregnant by sticking it in her butt. Societies have always found ways to perform non-reproductive sex, with varying degrees of efficiency.
And as far as a “sexual revolution”, the Pill was only revolutionary for upper and middle-class women – there was never a golden age of monogamous domesticity, despite what social conservatives and feminists claim. For most of history, in the East and West, married and single men visiting prostitutes, concubines, courtesans, etc. was the norm. One needs only to look at pre-Progressive Era America to see how common it was in our very society.
As far as I’m concerned, it’s up to those upper and middle-class women to figure out. Their navel-gazing concerning the relationship between sex and love is what got prostitution criminalized in the first place, leaving them without the luxury of maintaining a lengthy courtship without the pressure for sex. You want to spend a year cycling our velocipedes in the park while whistling a Stephen Foster tune before I dare steal a kiss? Then let me blow off some steam at Madame Ledoux’s Parlour.
I don’t disagree that men going to prostitutes “on the down low” wasn’t a common arrangement. I also agree that the idea that your spouse would simultaneously be your best friend, business partner and sexual dynamo is a modern invention. However, my main point is that the Pill was sold as this great emancipator to usher in sexual utopia. Like any utopian movement, the sexual revolutionaries were doomed from the start. I also think that humanity has never had such an effective and widespread a method of preventing pregnancy (outside of castration).
You’re also correct in that the people most affected by it are wealthy (largely white) women; those that have a great Venn intersection with “feminists”. IMO, they gave up a lot of their relational bargaining leverage and are not happy about it.
If you’re lookin’ for something else to watch on HBO now that half their subscribers are going to leave, you could do worse than the Muhammad Ali documentary. I watched it the other day and was pleasantly surprised. It was really shocking to see how quickly Ali goes from being this young, smart, witty guy to someone obviously suffering from severe neurological damage. It might have been shortly after the Thrilla in Manilla, but it seemed like night and day. It’s also surprising coming from a non-fan perspective to see just how good Ali was, but also how good people like Frazier and Foreman were. Finally, I think it does a good job of getting into the Nation of Islam stuff without taking too much of one side or another, although it does make the not-so-subtle point that Malcolm X was likely killed by Elijah Muhammad after becoming a real Muslim, renouncing racism, and leaving the NoI. Ali on the other hand comes off as a little bit of a dupe in that regard.
Did it get into how his Islam buddies ripped him off – keeping him in the ring way past his prime and getting his brains beat out by people like Norton, Spinks, and Holmes? I couldn’t stand Ali – so loved the Norton fight. He entered the ring doing his trash-talking act and left completely silent with a broken jaw. Ali’s smartest move in the 70’s was dodging a rematch with Foreman in an American venue, that would have killed his last brain cell.
Ali beat Foreman in the battle but Foreman clearly won the war.
Around 11:30 pm last night, TCM ran a number of these Bobby Bumps cartoons. This one is from 1916. They all are so racist, I’m amazed TCM aired them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbOUjo0IgIQ&list=PLoDXjsS-wI0wNaKS0B6qIBZ7eD6kfu9QK
Here’s another.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo5jwmuwNs4
Those are, um, a bit weird and racist, yeah.
So, Amash is making his statement right now – livestream
He makes a compelling argument.
He said it for the attention. Another hungry politician out of touch with America. #Rand2024.
Libertarian solution to Police misconduct?
Maybe.
Huh. I started receiving those Law360 e-mails, unsolicited, a couple of years ago.
So some Politico writer posted a few twits about how weird she thinks Iowa is and how she so wants to be back in NYC, which led to some Iowahawk hilarity
I’ve been everywhere man
I’ve been everywhere man
I’ve been to Jersey City Elizabeth City
Brooklyn Downtown Staten Island Midtown
East Village Staten Island West Village Long Island
Brunswick Bushwick Yonkers Bronx sir
I’ve been everywhere
David Burge
@iowahawkblog
Replying to @iowahawkblog
Politico editor: we’re not going to be caught by surprise again like in 2016, let’s send our top Brooklyn cat lady to find out what’s going on out there
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10:20 AM – May 19, 2019
As if “Yokels Shitting on New York” isn’t also a genre. People are allowed to have aesthetic preferences when it comes to regionalism. Suck it up, buttercup!
Being from the land of blue meth, I had to grow a pretty thick skin for people shitting on my hometown. If they don’t like it, they don’t have to go there. It’s also a lot more fun to embrace it than get offended.
The yokels tend to have a much smaller megaphone, though
Tu quoque is the Nick Gillespie of fallacies.
i’ve read Amash’s tweet storm. this is the one that matters:
Justin Amash
Verified account @justinamash
Contrary to Barr’s portrayal, Mueller’s report reveals that President Trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment.
does Amash get specific anywhere about those “specific actions”? i’m searching but so far no success.
Here’s the thing: impeachment is a political action, not a legal action. “High crimes and misdemeanors” means whatever congress wants it to mean. So they can impeach him at will for any reason or no reason. I still think it’s a stupid move, both morally and politically. Morally, Trump has likely been cleaner and more transparent than any other president in recent history so I don’t think that this is necessary a precedent we want to set. Politically, I think it’s likely to backfire and push Trump’s reelection chances way above 50%.
One part of me relishes the chaos and “emperor has no clothes” aspect of the past 3 years; it’s just demonstrated how foolish and corrupt our “betters” supposedly are. However, I would like a small yet functional FedGov that protects my rights and this absurdity is not furthering that; not that that’s been around for at least 100 years, but this kind of chicanery seems only to lead to a faster decay of liberty.
It sure reads like political crimes committed by the state’s political enemies. And if they can get somebody like Trump when he’s president, then everybody else is fucked. That’s the message. Don’t vote for someone not approved by the state or we’ll impeach him after we ream his private life with our investigations.
Yup. Also meant to chill participation of non-establishment people in becoming public officials.
Exactly what is meant by “deep state”.
i’ve found this which is Vox’s citing the Mueller Report for the ten moments Trump obstructed justice: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/18/18484947/mueller-report-obstruction-of-justice-summary
and it’s all related to the Russian Collusion hoax. so, i’m not getting my small clothes in a twist over Trump’s behavior when using swamp tactics to fight swamp attacks.
I don’t see anything that Trump did that causes me nearly as much concern as what DOJ, FBI, and who knows what intel agencies did. Amash has really disappointed me here.
You basically have to decide which is worse – Trump’s actions around the investigation, or the investigation/surveillance/spying (starting long before the election) and the conduct of the special prosecutor. You can’t go after both, not really; one of them has to be legitimate, for the other to be illegitimate. For me, its not even close. For Amash to say, in effect, that the real problem here is some things Trump said, or did within the legal powers of the Presidency, that might have chilled the investigation in some inchoate way, is nearly incomprehensible to me.
does Amash get specific anywhere about those “specific actions”?
Amash is a charter NeverTrumper. I suspect the specific action he refers to is winning the election.
So I might be completely off base but are there closet libertarians in the production crew of GOT?
The ending was one of the most coherent arguments against progressivism I have ever seen.
I mean in a lot of ways Dany was Progressive politics personified right down to crucifying the rich and powerful and burning a city of innocents to the ground to advance her utopian vision and the bleeding heart types fell sway to that vision and her apparent concern for the poor and downtrodden and helped her along, going so far as to be complicit in the deaths of their comrades when those comrades came to see the truth of what Dany was.
Maybe. I’d like to think that when you strip the baggage of real-life influences fictional settings that involve enough fantasy or science-fiction to make it hard for people to find analogues for their personal biases they tend to be more logical and maybe more honest in their thinking, and that tends to take you to conclusions you’d describe as classical liberal or libertarian in nature. Dany’s speech didn’t say anything that hasn’t been said by a neocon or a Progressive in this country in recent history, but I’ll bet there were plenty of people who could not wait for her to get the ax who were and are in favor of the occupations in the Middle East or Obamacare, for example.
We had to burn the city to save it.
She sure seemed like she wanted a Cultural Revolution. The last guy with that idea should have been stabbed in the heart with a dirk.