It turns out that it’s not just my mood at the moment, but it’s also the name of an indy band from Minnesoda. Who knew? And their stuff is actually pretty good. That’s one way to discover new music…
Another way is going down the list of birthdays, but that’s not as efficient as tossing out odd words and searching. And speaking of birthdays, today’s celebrants include the guy who made Washington, DC the mess it is; the guy who literally wrote the book of my life; the star of my favorite movies of the 1940s; the star of my favorite episode of The Outer Limits; someone on whom you can blame the traffic; and everybody’s favorite MILF (at least she was mine before I met SP).
On to the news.
Pro tip: never be a female anywhere near a Kennedy.
Did they check the penis to be sure?
I’m so glad we dumped this “service.”
Well, let’s be honest, he WAS whiny and annoying.
Political grandstanding delayed slightly.
I bet you thought I’d link a Morosity song for Old Guy Music. You’re wrong. Go look up their stuff on YouTube yourself and don’t enact my labor. Instead, this is an uncharacteristically bouncy tune from a band that (in that era) tended strongly psychedelic. Maybe it will cheer me up a bit.
“Christ, what a asshole”
But we knew that
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”
That’s from Stranger in a Strange Land, right?
No it’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
Sigh…people are always making that mistake. It is from “The Illustrated Man”!
Two Corinthians
… a Canaanite,, and a Samarian walk into a bar?
2 Kings
You know what’s being linked
I thought it was from Letters to Penthouse.
Look man, it’s impossible for me to give both ladies *exactly* the same amount of attention.
But that ain’t gonna stop you from doing your damned best to do so, right Q-meister?
I’m pretty sure that quote is uttered by Aslan in A Horse And His Boy, book 5 (at the time I read them) of The Chronicles Of Narnia.
Leave me out of this.
To. Many. Links
youre
That’s what I say when people watch golf on TV.
Actually, I whisper it.
*golf clap*
Kiln Astnomy?
+1 date with Mary with the uzi
I found Catcher in the Rye quite boring tbh.
I kinda liked it at the time but I was young and in Romania.
Catcher and Gatsby would have both ended up on the ash heap of history had they not been so accessible. Always write at the third grade level so you max out your readership.
Catcher and L’Étranger both fail to get us to care: if the protagonist doesn’t have a principled interest in others, why should we care about him ?
Hated both books as a kid. Re-read them later in life and decided that not every opinion that I had as an adolescent was barmy.
Learned a new word today. Thanks Festus!
books?
I’m laughing at this harder than I probably should.
I ain’t got none of dat fancy papyrus scroll learnin’
You know who else was barmy?
https://youtu.be/AwCZu9O-H0M
L’Étranger at least espouses something of a philosophy. I never really did get the point of Catcher, other than the fact that the narrator is unreliable.
Now that I know I’m supposed to hate it because of its while male privilege, I want to read it again.
>>Granddaughter of Robert Kennedy found dead at family compound; authorities investigate
How many Kennedys die of natural causes? 50%?
For a Kennedy wouldn’t drug and alcohol related deaths count as natural causes?
Touche.
Too many.
+1 helicopter ride
Larf
You know who else was morose in their latter years…
Queen Victoria?
Pelotonia ride is this weekend. Pretty big deal in Columbus. Lots of fit people won’t be in the office today. I am, but I did sponsor a co-worker:)
Velosano was just a couple of weeks ago up here. I’m at least getting more time in the saddle this year, hopefully next year I’ll be ready to sign back up for some of the charity rides.
HH100.org just a few days away
If you rely on your reputation to make big bank and you know you can’t handle your alcohol then why…just why?
I knew he couldn’t resist.
What 4 year old can?
Trump is Eric Cartman plus 60. And I love it
Screw you guys, I am going home…
>>Elderly woman’s body blown up in US Army explosive experiment
Were the Cleveland Browns there?
Yes, so was Lou Reed.
Hayeksplosives could not be reached for comment.
Only after he shot himself in the balls and drugs fell out of his ass.
“If you’re a white, relatively affluent, permanently grouchy young man with no real problems at all, it’s extraordinarily relatable. The problem comes when you’re not. Where’s The Catcher in the Rye for the majority of readers who are too non-young, non-white, and non-male to be able to stand listening to Holden Caulfield feel sorry for himself?”
Can we give it a fucking rest for a while?
Blah, blah, blah, Western culture sucks, blah, blah, blah, MUH WYMALEZ, blah, blah, blah, etc. etc.
Can we just skip to the part where she advocates for Communism?
Where’s The Catcher in the Rye for the majority of readers – Well fuckin write it or something
And you just gave them the plot for it.
Goalie in the Yuca?
Punter in the Plains.
For this generation, I think it’s barista in the soy
Hipster in the safe space.
Hipster in the Hay
Annoying Horse’s Ass On The Internet.
Now do Harry Potter.
The man has a book to shill. How can he make people like his book without shitting on someone else’s.
This idea that one can only enjoy stuff that matches one’s race, sex, gender expression, and yearly income is very bizarre. No one is more boring than me – why would I want to read a book about myself?!
Old: Reading a book is a journey of the mind that takes you to far away places, puts you in someone else’s shoes, etc.
New: If you don’t identify with the main character of a book you’ve been victimized.
white, relatively affluent, permanently grouchy young man with no real problems at all, it’s extraordinarily relatable
No it’s not. It was absolute crap that I hated reading. I wish he got ran over by a bus by page 10.
Speaking of retarded assholes. He’ll fit in well with the Raiders.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/tantrum-fight-and-truly-bizarre-touchdown-celebration-get-nfl-player-cut
Great song! Still, would have preferred something by Buddy Guy, though.
I’m not your Buddy, guy.
I’m not your pal, buddy!
I’m not your chum, friend!
I’m not your friend, amigo!
I’m not your droog, Tovarisch!
I am not your Tovarisch, ! رفيقي
I’m not your squiggly line, comrade!
I’m not your comrade, citizen!
Why do you hate Jim Capaldi?
Capaldi was great, but he’s not playing at the Hollywood bowl on Wednesday nigh with Jimmie Vaughn and Charlie Musslewhite and I don’t have great seats, like I do for Buddy Guy.
Stop preening!
He’s doing a set with Lou Reed. I can arrange for you to have great seats for that, if you like.
And by “arrange”, you mean….
Deal you the black spot.
Elder Bro had “Mr. Fantasy” on vinyl. Traffic was a very solid band. Nice one, Old Man!
“So much for Netflix and chill. For Android users, there will be no more chilling while you have the Netflix app playing, at least if you don’t want the streaming company to think that you’re a lazy couch potato.”
That’s not what “Netflix and chill” means.
Go on….
“there will be no more chilling while you have the Netflix app playing”
Why would this prevent me from having intercourse?
That’s not what “Netflix and chill” means. – well not for the first minute or so, but afterwards?
Last week a security researcher on Twitter noticed that the Netflix Android app had added a menu asking for permission for physical activity access.
At least they asked for permission?
Chad Will Make California Great Again
But will the hanging Chad make America great again in 2020?
You gotta earn a second Independence day, Chad. Join Antifa.
You have to respect his commitment to the bit, though. That’s Kaufman-esque!
Doris Stauffer’s body, 73, was donated to science after her death in 2013, with her family believing her remains would be used to study the effects of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Instead her body was sold to the US Army for explosives testing, her son Jim told Reuters.
Science can be boring but sometimes it’s a blast.
In the University of Tennessee stadium and surrounding grounds, there is a forensic study where they document different weather effects and such on decaying bodies. I might donate myself to that unless I do the Viking funeral pyre.
+1 flaming arrow
Not that it matters much, but the body farm is out Alcoa Highway, so not even in the city limits.
They do keep bones in the stadium though.
I’m donating my body to science. Its probably the only way I’ll go out with a bang.. It would be kind of neat to be spread over 40 acres that way though.
“Where’s Grandpa?”
“Over there and over there and over there”, pointing to a distant tree
+1 Raven flying overhead with an eyeball in its beak.
LOL. Sorry. Totally missed that, 4Score.
+1 Krista McAuliffe blue eyes joke.
+1 washing up on the beach
Blue…
One blew that way, and the other the other way..
Why didn’t the Challenger crew take a shower before blastoff….because they knew they would be washing up on the beach.
Why did NASA give the Challenger crew Pepsi…………….because they couldn’t get 7Up.
+1 Natalie Wood
I think you mean minus one
Mommy, where’s grandma?
Oh, she’s around here someplace.
Teen Vogue, please come to the white courtesy telephone…
https://www.barstoolsports.com/viral/rappers-talking-about-anal-sex-in-2004-shows-just-how-far-weve-come-as-a-society
Teen Vogue, please come to the white courtesy telephone…
NOT OK!
the black courtesy phone would be just as problematic, with the operators who all sound like Aunt Jemimah.
“Political grandstanding delayed slightly.”
I read that article three times and still can’t make sense of it.
This. Is. CNN.
Nichols is a Trump nominee confirmed by the Senate earlier this year.
Bad Orange Man subverts justice yet again.
“It was shocking behaviour. You would expect it maybe on a budget airline but not in the first-class cabin on BA.’’
Totes. Southwest flights are like a scene from Caligula.
In a good or bad way?
Yes.
The Official Glibertarian Airline ™
Hundreds of sweaty bodies, pressed against each other at the whim of a rich and powerful man, desperately hoping this humiliation will take them someplace better?
plus racist eeny meeny miny mo.
I’m happy the golfer did that and the Sun covered it because I now have a reason to watch UFC
Root Cause Analysis: Memphis
SO this is weird… It starts like
1/16)Once upon a time there was a young man. He traveled all throughout the land spreading cancer and disease and laughing about it.
ANd goes on ending
15/16)The man sat at home, smirking, knowing full well that his creations of PulseAudio and SystemD would never go away.
16/16)Lennart Poeterring is a menace and a beast, and we will never be able to escape. The End. #systemd @systemdsucks
https://twitter.com/astraleureka/status/918298599083012096
I am not even sure what systemd is… But apparently it bad
systemd essentially made it a lot easier to build Unix-like operating systems by making them completely un-Unix-like. It replaced the SysV init system and a bunch of independent system daemons. On the other hand, it parallelized init processes so that desktop linux doesn’t take 5 minutes to boot anymore.
PulseAudio is the fucking train wreck of an audio stack that replaced the former 2 train wrecks of an audio stack in most linux based systems.
Could your real estate agent be a sex offender? You likely would never know
Why would I care? Is there some reason being a pedo deviant would prevent him from doing a good job?
But it may be a someone who took a piss in public once!
They should be made to wear some sort of identifying symbol…maybe a large letter, in bright red. Or a star of some sort?
Great minds Swiss… great minds.
Also, red lines on a map showing where they can’t live… oh, that is already a thing.
You know, perhaps there’s some sort of badge we could make sex offenders sew onto their clothes.
The new lepers. They should be made to walk the streets ringing a bell. “Unclean! Unclean!”
Yeah, but that creep can roll, man
Non-contact sex offenders – people with possession of CSAM for example – are lowest to re-offend. Just sayin’.
Fine fillies with all the right junk in all the right places.
https://tinyurl.com/y456qz9l
Number 2 definitely makes the moniker “Friday Funbags” proud.
I like 1 although could use somewhat smaller tits
16 and 52 look cute
48 looks strange for some reason
Wrong junk.
Oh, Tulsi…
“When sitting down with someone like Bashar al-Assad in Syria, do you confront him directly and say, why do you order chemical attacks on your own people?” Vossoughian asked Gabbard. “Why do you cause the killings of over half a million people in your country?”
“You’re talking about a meeting that took place, what, three years ago?” Gabbard fired back. “And every time I come back here on MSNBC you guys talk to me about these issues, it sounds like these are talking points that Kamala Harris and her campaign are feeding you because she’s refusing to address the questions that were posed to her.”
“Congresswoman, it’s important, I think, for the American people to have context about your foreign policy issues and where you stand,” Vossoughianm replied. “If you’re leading with foreign policy and running for President of the United States. A meeting with Bashar al-Assad, which I’m sure you understand, is a very controversial meeting to take.”
“Every single time for three years?” Gabbard responded. “This is where the propaganda comes in because I’ve talked about this a lot for the last three years.”
Gabbard told MSNBC earlier this year that “Assad is not the enemy of the United States because Syria does not pose a direct threat to the United States.”
You do NOT question the Praetorian Guard.
Welcome to the memory hole Tulsi. Say hi to Mario Lopez for me.
Gabbard told MSNBC earlier this year that “Assad is not the enemy of the United States because Syria does not pose a direct threat to the United States.”
Crazy talk!
Yay. Got in a bit of hot water at work, only two days in. My visa runs out on August 11 and my classes (not orientation) start on the 13th. I’m making a visa run to Laos and will likely miss 2.5 days of work. But then I’ll be legal here for three months and I can get an extension lasting for a year.
After I submit my documents to the Thai embassy there I’ll be free for well over 24 hours. Vientiane is a pretty boring city, but I might be able to get some mushrooms and have a fun night out. This is worrisome as I also have to do a medical check in a few weeks that likely tests for the weed that I’m currently smoking.
Southeast Asia is a weird place and they love paperwork. Laos can be fun, though. Poor and cheap as hell. I suppose I’ll embrace and own it. Oh, the joys of starting a new job.
I hope everyone is industrious and healthy. I’ll try to do the same.
As long as you’re hmong friends.
Boo!
That eerily fits your avatar.
Scared yet?
Very.
wut
Had to make one for real for my one of my companies, so I slapped that together with photos I had already downloaded. Just fucking around.
I think you just triggered my Delirium Tremens. That was fantastic!
*fiercely narrows gaze*
And even if you are all alone no big laos, you can still have fun by yourself.
But if there are other patrons sitting at the other end of the bar tell them “Khmer help me drink this vodka and we’ll Thai one on”
Et tu, Pontiff?
Laos can be fun, though. Poor and cheap as hell. – but is is safe? and are the chicks hot?
I hope everyone is industrious – why do you not hope everyone is filthy rich and idle?
Socialist economies rank at top globally
Sweden is not socialist.
Also these rankings are mostly bullshit.
Why doesn’t the author move to Sweden then?
Or Switzerland, if he truly believed in the validity on this ranking.
Probably because Switzerland wouldn’t let him in.
CORRECT.
You can eventually become Swiss if you bring;
1) Great flipping wads of cash,
2) High demand skills (medical, IT, etc)
3) Do them a favor. ’nuff said.
We should send some of our social justice warrior types demanding ope borders because orange man is bad there to “edumacate” the racialist Swiss….
Global Innovation Index
Sounds legit.
“….social-democratic economies like those proposed by our home-grown socialists, Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.”
What these illiberal twits are proposing is not really what the Scandinavian model offers. Scandinavia isn’t attacking capitalism like these idiots are.
And glad they agree to label them as socialists as proper – though I think Bernie is a commie and is too much of a coward to admit it. We’re at a point where someone can quote socialism to a T and still claim to not be socialist. I’M DEMOCRATIC socialist.
It’s all in the branding.
somewhat embarrassing, no?
No, it is not. As you said Of course, the Nordic countries perhaps aren’t truly socialist. They are free markets with extensive taxation and welfare. Socialism is still bad economics. But nice try.
And we did cut our corporate tax rate to be more like Sweden.
No minimum wage and school vouchers are pretty sweet as well.
I wouldn’t trust a “Global Innovation Index” that didn’t place the US as #1. There’s just no way that any other place is out-innovating the US, considering how many new products, methods, and discoveries are coming out of the country every year.
What’s remarkable is that the US is even near the top of whatever that made-up list is, given how much damage the left has done in recent decades to stifle “innovation”.
“Countries I like rank high in things I find important”. Film at 11.
Myrna Loy….mmmmmm!
She dressed quite daringly for the era. Defined “hotness.”
Indeed! Wasn’t that her in the milk bath in one of those sword and sandal epics?
Sure damn was!
Not milk, but a bath at least.
Not Myrna Loy (it was Claudette Colbert) but still hotness.
She knows what she has and how to use it.
How many guys were watching that and sat up a little higher hoping to influence the outcome?
There’s a Myrna Loy one from a silent movie, but it was Claudette I was thinking of first. And frequently thereafter.
It wasn’t a silent movie, but maybe this is the scene you’re thinking of? From A Night in Cairo.
THANK YOU, CHIPWOODER!!!!!
I think that’s the sound of Swiss cheese being churned…
THAT’S the one.
I stand corrected and by stand mean…
Beautiful and also a terrific comic actress.
Mmm… Nora…
NEVER RETREAT
The Trump administration has undertaken eight rounds of negotiations with the Taliban, which controlled Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001, led by envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, the Afghan-born former U.S. ambassador to Kabul. Khalilzad has hinted that a peace agreement could be reached in the next round of talks, scheduled to be held in Qatar later this week.
“In Doha, if the Taliban do their part, we will do ours, and conclude the agreement we have been working on,” he tweeted Wednesday, adding that he was, “Wrapping up my most productive visit to #Afghanistan since I took this job as Special Rep.”
The agreement would require the Taliban to broker a peace deal directly with the Afghan government, and give assurances the country won’t be used as a launching pad for international terror attacks. However, some officials have concerns about how to hold the group accountable. The Washington Post reported that if finalized, the agreement would cut the number of troops in the country from 14,000 to between 8,000 and 9,000.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., tweeted his skepticism about the potential deal saying he was “[v]ery interested to see what kind of deal is made with the Taliban in Afghanistan. One thing I know for certain— al-Qaeda [sic] and ISIS will never be at the negotiating table.”
“Mr. President, keep your foot on their throat!” Graham continued. “A meaningful counter-terrorism force is an insurance policy against another 9/11. Fight them there so they don’t ever come here again!”
Yeah, 0kay, Lindsey. Don’t you have some knitting to do?
an insurance policy against another 9/11
Or it could inspire one.
The Forever War
Sometimes I wish that Lindsey’s balls had never dropped two years ago.
Myrna Loy….mmmmmm!
!!!!!!!!!
^TRUTH.
Indeed
Have you ever noticed the popularity of white robots? The reason for these shades of technological white may be racism, according to new research.
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1156916257834381312
Those black robots be stealing my watermelon! /holy shit I’m a racist
Ugh, we had a black robot once and all it did was sit around on the porch. Lazy robot. Stole my bike, too.
My two black robots work slavishly. Though one has developed a communication problem.
Fuck, they’re on to us.
The replies are good:
The Dark Lord of The Cis
”If you’ve ever wondered why Covert ops and stealth units wear all black during missions, a new study finds that it might be because of the Racist notion that blacks are sneakier.”
Deceptibot5000
”Ever wonder why so-called ‘Black Belts’ in martial arts are, statistically, more aggressive and violent? The answer may surprise you.”
monika davis
“Ever wondered why bones are white? 14 reasons why skeletons may be the new symbol of white supremacy.”
Black type on a white background: easier to read, or racist indoctrination?
But did you find any pizza paraphernalia?
A bizarre gold-domed, blue and white-striped building on Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands differed significantly from plans submitted to local authorities.
The structure, referred to informally as a “temple,” was not built even remotely like the music pavilion plans submitted to the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Planning and Resources, NBC reported Thursday. Flanked by gold-painted statues, the mysterious building has inspired conspiracy theories…
It is unclear whether Epstein and his guests used the “temple” as a site to abuse minors. In the plans submitted to the Department of Planning and Resources in 2010, the building was going to act as a pavilion housing a grand piano, according to NBC. Epstein has been described by friends as a talented pianist.
However, the building is located on the southwest corner of Little St. James, far from any other structures, and questions remain why Epstein would build a music room in such a remote part of the island, according to Business Insider…
Notably, the door to the building seems to lock from the outside.
“It’s styled like what you might see on a castle, with what appears to be a reinforcing lock bar across the face,” contractor James Booth told Business Insider. “What makes it peculiar is that if you wanted to keep people out, the bar would be placed inside the building, [but the] locking bar appears to be placed on the outside … as if it were intended to lock people in.”
In Little St. James, Did Epstein Jeff a stately rape dome decree…
What you did there? It was noted.
He was going to finish but there was a knock on his door.
An easy mistake of hearing to make. Fixed below.
STEVE SMITH DO PRETZEL TWIST WHILE EXPLORING HIKER.
Doing Winston Smith proud!
https://freebeacon.com/politics/california-removes-arrest-reports-from-kamala-years/
those are on a need to know basis and citizens don’t really need to know
“Callison added that the documents are still available upon request via email to data.requests@cdcr.ca.gov.”
I bet they are.
“Due to a Russian in the system the information requested will not be available until after November 2020.”
Love to see the documented timing on that. Had nothing to do with getting Tulisified on national tv, right?
Tulisified
Tulsi can Tulsifi me any day.
Now that’s how you bureaucrat.
Oh fuck me I want to see her go down in flames.
A redesign of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation website will make it harder for voters to inspect Sen. Kamala Harris’s controversial record as the state’s top cop.
How does that saying go? …History is always changing?
Which leads to an article that does the mendacious comparison thing between prisoner and non-prisoner identity groups.
So my question is, what are they accusing her of here? Hypocrisy?
Buying tea with WeChat Pay in a dystopian future
https://salibra.com/p/buying-tea-with-wechat-pay-d3931febd2be
This is where I started to get a taste of the dystopian future where eating requires someone else’s permission.
The checkout form wanted me to enter a local phone number to notify me when my drink was ready for pickup. Strange – I was placing this order through a messaging app, you’d think they could just send me a message there. But there’s a catch, you can’t get a local Chinese phone number these days without registering an ID card and providing address proof. I used to have a number of Chinese phone numbers but they were canceled because I never provided identification information in the years after the policy was implemented. I put in a friend’s number instead.
How did he set up WeChat Pay to begin with? Usually you need a Chinese bank account which require residency papers to open.
Nike has Kaepernick playing as some sort of pseudo-woke-folk hero. They’re good.
Washed-up second stringer hits the jackpot. It’s a shame because I’ve been a Nike customer since high school and usually found their products to be pretty damn good if not exceptional. Now they can go lick a hobo’s balls.
Man or Woman?
Waxed or not?
I bought the original Air Jordan shoe when it came out. I’m not brand loyal so it was easy for me to blow Nike out of my shopping preferences.
Now I’m all New Balance. I like their motto better as well that they’re independent. DON’T FUCK IT UP NB.
*NB slowly pulls hand back from the red hot stove element*
Stolen from Twitter: Tulsi vs Kamala… Hawaiian roasts pig
YES!
I love what she did but Harris will survive it. Unfortunately.
Yeah, they’ve already covered it up. Only partisans will know what happened a week from now.
That’s good.
This may be “too local” but over the last month the Minnesota Dept of Human Services has been getting rocked by scandals and mass resignations. The latest scandal is that the DHS overpaid tribes $25M for health services.
If any local media was willing to print bad news about the DFL, there are several Pullitzers waiting to be picked up by them. I doubt any of them will do anything other than print the Official Explanation though.
On the bright side, I am so proud of the pols on the White Earth reservation. They know how to handle a scandal. Check out this response and tell me that they shouldn’t be on the debate stage with the other Clown Car Candidates.
https://youtu.be/mAKOs1Zm5Fo
“According to White Earth”
Intersectional showdown!
Race Baiters vs. Indigenous Tribe
Up here in the frozen white wasteland the cops are trying to find two suspected spree killers and the Natives are wondering why they didn’t put as much effort into finding missing party girls from the rez. You can’t make this shit up. Two guys that killed three strangers are on the loose, armed and dangerous. Clear and present danger you dumb fucks. Everything is political and our Government subsidizes it.
A ‘sex game gone wrong’ isn’t a defence when men are getting away with murder
The author obviously has zero understanding of criminal law.
Femicide – is not and should not be a word
In this p[articular case 6 years seems low to me given it happened twice in 2 weeks… But who knows
Maybe… not engage in sex with a guy with a knife/choke fetish on the first date? I sure as hell wouldn’t let a woman I just met hold a knife to my throat during sex. Hell, I wouldn’t let my wife do that. Of course, my wife might remember why she wanted the knife in bed to begin with. No, upon reflection knife fetish is for people who know each other well enough to stay the weekend, but not so well they move in.
But Brett, you haven’t lived until someone holds a knife to your throat during the throes of orgasm! What are you? Some kind of Square? And you call yourself a “Florida Man”…
EVEN STEVE SMITH NOT THAT WEIRD.
STEVE SMITH NO NEED KNIFE GET EXCITED.
“The safe word is, ‘Ghhhhhhaghhhhhhh…. burble.'”
What about rusty can lids?
Pictured – https://youtu.be/nKDUDF3cgRA
Wrong clip. It was supposed to be the one with the genital cuff… My bad.
LEAVE BARACK ALONE!!!11
Joe Biden is fair game. Barack Obama is not.
Former Obama White House officials and allies responded in force Thursday to stress that message after several Democratic contenders criticized the former president in a debate that featured uncharacteristically tough assessments of his policies.
The disparagement of aspects of Obama’s record led to stern warnings that the tactic could backfire on the presidential candidates themselves — and perhaps arm Republicans with ammunition to attack the eventual Democratic nominee next fall.
“Stay away from Barack Obama,” advised Steve Elmendorf, a well-known Democratic lobbyist who worked on John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign.
“I don’t know why you would attack Barack Obama or his record or any part of him when he’s the most popular person in the party,” he added. “And I don’t think it helps for the general election voters, either. I don’t know what they’re thinking.”
Republicans have already seized on the division. Donald Trump Jr., President Donald Trump’s eldest son, tweeted Thursday morning how nice it was “to see Democrats finally go after Obama’s failed policies very aggressively.”
Not the legacy, George!
I’m going to enjoy watching the DNC burn.
“I don’t know why you would attack Barack Obama or his record or any part of him when he’s the most popular person in the party,” – his record is spotless and he never did anything questionable i assume, otherwise it is quite fair game
Except for setting race relations back thirty years and fucking up the health insurance industry he was pretty boiler-plate Presidential material.
I’m so old I remember when Bill Clinton was the most popular person in the Dem party and everyone wanted his blessing.
In hindsight, Obama was, except for the pen and phone, a fairly powerless president. Other than Obamacare, which he didn’t even legistlate, I’m struggling to think of his “major accomplishments.”
Handing money to Iran… uh, Beer summit? Uhm… turning great swaths of land into federally protected areas… his “deportations”… Cash for Clunkers… anyone else?
It was such a blur of narcissistic mendacity…
He personally killed Osama bin Laden?
With his bare, muscular hands ::larf::
Pssst.
that was Michelle broh.
bin Laden had his arms ripped off?
“In hindsight, Obama was, except for the pen and phone, a fairly powerless president. Other than Obamacare, which he didn’t even legistlate, I’m struggling to think of his “major accomplishments.””
Well, he did manage to be one of the most divisive presidents ever. And if we are lucky, people will find out about how his administration weaponized the government bureaucracy, especially all the three letter agencies used by government to keep the boot on the people’s neck and to spy on others, and then sicked that machine on their political enemies in an attempt to rig an election for one of the most deplorable people I have ever heard of.
I was thinking about this on the way into work today. Within one term of his exit from the office Obama is on the way to getting pushed out of the limelight like they did with Bill Clinton, because he wasn’t woke enough at the time for the social justice left now. Granted, it’s early, but you’ve got a feeding frenzy of candidates who are rushing as far left as possible, even attacking party stalwarts like Biden and Obama, and I’m sure both Clintons will wind up on the chopping block before too long. This is not a sound electoral strategy, but none of these people seem to notice or care. And I think it’s because there’s nobody left in the party who’s anything like a leader. They’re totally rudderless, and now it’s turned into a radical leftist Lord of the Flies. Trump is going to win in 2020, the Dems might lose seats in Congress, and Tom Perez is going to be out on his ass.
Obama tacitly and sometimes explicitly encouraged the nutjobs with his rhetoric while pursuing his Chicago-Style machine politics inside the administration. The political disaster that is the Democrat Party rests squarely on his shoulders and the idiots that promoted him to the forefront of the party.
If only they had elected Brother Keith Ellison to run the party instead. A black ex-member of the Nation of Islam would be so much better.
Now that would have been one for the history books. We were so close.
That boy is our last hope.
No, there is another.
goddamit
Edit Fairy smiles on you.
Within one term of his exit from the office Obama is on the way to getting pushed out of the limelight like they did with Bill Clinton, because he wasn’t woke enough at the time for the social justice left now.
This. But that’s the problem when the march of progress is led by unmerciful inquisitors. The past is always evil and must be consigned to the flames. Old heroes were actually villains, don’t you know.
What’s the over/under on when some progressive outlet publishes “Why Barack Obama is a Symbol of White Supremacy”?
I’d bet against that. The Left has built him up to a pseudo-religious figure. It’s really fucking creepy. They’ll continue to insist that he’s literally the greatest politician in American history while ignoring anything bad that he did (or anything that they now define as bad in accordance with the most up-to-date narrative).
I’ve tried confronting them on this before, except it was about his warmongering. They seriously don’t have an answer for it; they just sit there and stare off in the distance without saying anything. I know that some people will write this off was “whataboutism”, but I’ve never encountered that in real life.
He won a Noble Peace Prize. ’nuff said
The Left has built him up to a pseudo-religious figure.
This. My proggie family couldn’t hear a disparaging word about him. My dd suggested I was racist because I detested the guy.
Sad.
I tried the same thing, going left of Obama – drone killing specifically – and just a shrug. “The good things he did outweigh the bad.” And this from an “anti-war” woman.
Like giving her an out on being called a racist… “I voted for Obama!”
I got some news for ya’ honey.
I’d bet against that.
Oh, I’m not saying it will be a mainstream opinion, just that some lefty outlet is likely to go there sometime. Just this year we had people murmuring about post-facto #metoo-ing MLK, and if he’s not off limits despite real accomplishments at real risk, then Obama won’t be off limits either. And given the lack of imagination among so many lefty-critics, where bad = racist, someone is going to call him racist given how un-woke he was (compared to the present).
Isn’t it clear. He let white Americans believe they had advanced and done well by electing him. He then followed the same policies perpetuated by known white supremacists.
Yea, there is no need to learn from history, especially if it means criticizing the Lightbringer.
You do know the literal translation of Lucifer is Lightbringer, right?
For the gamers out there, it looks like one of the more bizarre RPG settings is getting a computer game this year. I present to you: Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory.
I remember the original RPG game – back then my geek friends and I had great amusement reading the guides but we only tried to play the game once.
Hey! That sounds just like my collection of Illuminati: NWO cards.
Oh shit, I remember that game! I had an uncle who was a big ol’ nerd and got me into a lot of those kinds of games. Unfortunately, none of my friends at the time were into them, so I got to play like once every couple of months with him and my aunt. He was the guy who handed me these two decks of cards and said, “Hey, this is some new card game that’s coming out soon. It’s in beta now. It’s called Magic.”
At Origins, back in the mid-late 90’s (when I went) they use to do a live action giant Paranoia game, ran by one of the original authors. It was always a good time (and right next to the Big Bar on 2 most years).
Thanks for this! Looks great and had no idea it was in the works. Guess I can leave Skyrim for a while to play it.
Not a problem, looks like an early October release. The gameplay trailer on Steam looks like it has the humor from the setting there.
I didn’t know about it either, until that story came up in my news feed.
They’re making a Baldur’s Gate 3!!!!
*tween girl squeee*
They made a second Planescape: Torment. I got a copy of it right before the time I had to pick my nym.
I didn’t think it was as good as the original, but it was definitely a spiritual successor if not a narrative one.
For the remote Glibs: Ars reviews three cell signal boosters—and they actually work
You’re going to need at least $700 though.
The WeBoost systems work. A directional antenna is a must.
We could actually use something at the Casa Dean, but honestly, punching a hole in my house for the cabling is a bigger issue than the cost (which is a big issue, make no mistake).
“The GOP didn’t attack Reagan, they built him up for decades,” tweeted Neera Tanden, CEO and president of the liberal think tank Center for American Progress and the Obama campaign’s domestic policy director. “Dem Candidates who attack Obama are wrong and terrible. Obama wasn’t perfect, but come on people, next to Trump, he kind of is.”
The man is a saint. A SAINT, I tell you! How dare you besmirch his legacy?
It’s funny for them to put him on the same tier as Reagan. Reagan, despite never controlling Congress, was able to actually advance his agenda both at home and abroad. Tax cuts, a brand new military, and of course the destruction of the Soviet Union.
Pretty sure the Soviets were his biggest Ally in destroying the Soviet Union.
Yeah, but there were plenty of others that opposed Reagan’s ideas that were rooting for the Soviets. A lot fo them are in our government bureaucracy these days.
It included everybody’s favorite Senatorial drunk as well
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/07/20/collusion_what_about_chinagate_and_ted_kennedys_outreach_to_the_ussr_134515.html
Kennedy was trying to be on the right side of history. After all, everyone that was anyone “just knew” marxism was the key to the new world order and that the people that believe in American exceptionalism or that capitalism was a better system were monsters and stupid stooges people like Reagan preyed on.
You could say the same thing for most wars. Reagan doesn’t get enough credit for defeating the only existential threat the USA has ever actually faced and doing it by spending money, not money and blood.
People forget that when he took office the Soviets were at their zenith. They were in a secure position, they were making rapid inroads in the Western Hemisphere, they were all over Africa and the Middle East. They had a Pacific naval base at Cam Ranh Bay.
In terms of strategic success, there’s not a more effective President in US History, and you could argue that there’s not an equal in world history. But because he was a rightwing actor who played the amiable fellow so well, the historians don’t give him any of the credit he deserves.
“The acme of skill is to subdue the enemy without fighting”
“Nebulosity” means “cloud-like-ness.” Meaningness is cloud-like. It is real, but impossible to completely pin down.
Nebulosity is the key to understanding confusions about meaningness.
https://meaningness.com/nebulosity
“Nebulosity” refers to the intangible, transient, amorphous, non-separable, ambiguous nature of meaningness.1
From a distance, clouds can look solid; close-up they are mere fog, which can even be so thin it becomes invisible when you enter it.
If you watch a cloud for a few minutes, it may change shape and size, or evaporate into nothing. But it is impossible to find an exact moment at which it ceases to exist.
Clouds often have vague boundaries and no particular shape.
Meanings behave in these ways, too.
In hindsight, Obama was, except for the pen and phone, a fairly powerless president. Other than Obamacare, which he didn’t even legistlate, I’m struggling to think of his “major accomplishments.”
He ended racism, and healed the country’s wounds.
And stopped the rise of the oceans. Don’t forget that.
Closed Guantanamo. His First Lady was the most admired woman in the world. Mesmerized the Noble Peace Prize committee.
‘What does Bill Weld actually believe?’
It’s been a long strange trip for the former Massachusetts governor
Nice. Weld deserves a good media thrashing.
I cared nothing about Aleppo. I DID care, however, about the fact that William Weld is a statist asshole who didn’t belong anywhere near a libertarian ticket.
Meh. The Libertarian Party was the smallest, furthest ring at the circus. Now they’re relegated outside the Big Top, carnival barkers in the side show.
Is it time to pull the plug, or do you have some solution in mind to get the LP back in the Big Top?
Nope. Speaking realistically I see Libertarianism as an ethos that can better work from within the established parties. A nudge here, a tweak there sort of idea.
One caveat, I think new media is going to hugely influence political thinking in the next ten or twenty years. When us oldsters start dying off in record numbers the next generations won’t even own televisions so the influence of MSM that our cohort grew up with will be replaced by something different. Might be good, might be bad but we won’t recognize it.
Tried that, but got tired of eating the shit (like support Sen. Hugh Scott) in order to rise high enough to have any influence at all.
Last year 21 year old Laura Huteson was killed by Jason Gaskell, a man she had met earlier that day.
I think I might have found the problem.
Factcheckers, prepare to POUNCE!
President Trump, at his campaign rally Thursday, bemoaned the state of American cities, broadening his days-long onslaught against Baltimore to accuse Democrats of running urban areas across the nation into the ground.
“No one has paid a higher price for the far left’s destructive agenda than Americans living in our nation’s inner cities. They have paid a dear price,” Trump told his supporters near the start of the event at U.S. Bank Arena.
The president argued that funding provided by the federal government has been “stolen” and “wasted” by local officials.
“For 100 years it’s been one party control, and look at them,” he continued. “We can name one after another, but I won’t do that because I don’t want to be controversial.”
Then, over the course of the next hour, Trump singled out multiple prominent cities and decried their conditions. In each case, he pinned the blame on Democratic leaders, including Cincinnati’s own mayor.
Fake news. Those Democrats meant well, but Republikkkins thwarted their attempts to make the world a better place.
“All this popcorn is making my farts dry.”
It really is a slam dunk from my perspective.
Like, a place in lockstep control by Team Red usually has the negatives of what? No porno shops? Weird liquor laws?
If you let Team Blue control your city for decades you have literal rat infestations and actual no shit TYPHUS.
I hated that Moral Majority shit when I was young but the alternative that the left is peddling seems much more insidious and dangerous.
but I won’t do that because I don’t want to be controversial.
*Sensible chuckle*
Christ, what an asshole.
This is why private jets exist. You score no points for flying commercial if you are going to be an asshole about it. Be an asshole on your own time.
What I don’t get is why any other passenger complied. I’ve been on lots of flights where they flight attendants have asked that people remain sitting so people on a connecting flight can get out quickly and make it. No one ever listened.
I’m calling BS on the claim that they “didn’t ask for this”. I also have to think that the flight attendant made some super official announcement and did the old “it is mandatory to comply with the orders of a flight crew” bit.
Midwesterners have no mercy when it comes time to deplane, so I can only imagine how bad it must be in NYC.
Sounds like he was at a NYC airport – so they complied because the NYPD would have beat the shit out of them for non-compliance. Anywhere else, I would have gladly cut in front of him and told him to fuck-off.
private jets – what about global warming? Ban flying is better
Mum who murdered daughters after they ‘got in way of sex life’ jailed for life with minimum of 32 years
A bullet would suffice.
double tap, just to be sure. And then drawing and quartering. With the head on a pike outside the city.
forgot to add: that’s a rough 23 years, or maybe there wasn’t much to begin with
I’ll say I was really confused because I read Man not Mum.
I’m generally opposed to the death penalty but then cases like this happen… and I see no reason why people convicted of such should remain a burden on society.
Yep. The death penalty should be rare, but there are some people who just need killing.
Chum the water and dump her in the north Atlantic.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2019/08/01/arlington-police-investigating-shooting-involving-officer
I’m sure this was posted yesterday, but I return to the Glibs after a long hiatus with a good old fashioned nut punch.
He shot the wrong bitch.
/hangs head in shame
Uffda. Nice to have you back, but maybe leave the stories like this back home?
Fine police work, Lou.
No. She just dropped dead with bullet holes in her.
She walked into the projectiles that were discharging from an officer operated firearm.
Dallas Police are racking up the kills on their citizens.
Maybe a coming-of-age novel about self-infatuation, moral posturing, quixotic crusades, can’t hold down a job, being a permanent burden on family and society… just the thing.
I actually read that
I actually enjoyed “A Confederacy of Dunces”
+1 pyloric valve
went to high school who was wheels off in that same way
but we were 500 miles north of MSY
That book made me fall absolute, head-over-heels in love with New Orleans and I moved there the moment I had the opportunity.
…so you are a fan of high crime drainage ditches?
A great novel. Imagine if they had actually landed John Waters to direct the proposed movie.
Sadly, it seems vanishingly unlikely ever to reach video.
It would be a much better book for high schoolers than Catcher.
Talking about Animal Farm?
I tried, oh how I tried, to like that book. I just couldn’t even.
?????????
#metoo I tried. Good Lord I tried.
Exhibit 8,736 In How Western Countries Are Destroying The Planet
Damn there are some heartrending pictures there.
Santa Barbara Cracks Down on Illegal Food Vendors During Fiesta
City government – building agorists one hangry festival goer at a time.
Because you really need to worry about food safety with prepackaged dry goods.
This law brought to you by The Government-Approved Food Vendor Association.
When the Gillespie talk was linked someone also linked the Soho Forum debate on postmoderism and I only now got to listening. I found Thaddeus Russell and his affirmative position utterly unpersuasive. Stephen Hicks won imo
old news but relinking just in case anyone missed it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb9Eajt0KVA
“Morality is just a form of superstition” – Thaddeus
Fine then, I’ll just shoot you and fuck your wife at gunpoint. Now that you’ve taken morals completely out of the equation, we’re just down to power.
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today
*smashes storefront window*
Take whatever you want!
Morality is just a form of superstition
Have you ever noticed that the kind of guys who try to palm off that sort of line of thinking inevitably look like a strong fart might knock them over?
What’s Jordan Peterson’s argument about postmodernism and social justice? Something along the lines that if all meaning is constructed and interpreted in order to benefit some at the expense of others, then the only things that you’re left with in the world are opinions and power. Power then is the only real thing that exists in the world, and the idea that it would be constrained by something like morality is simply a construction that exists to benefit someone else.
That’s very close to Hick’s argument. Without any truth, there is only power and the exercise thereof.
the idea that it would be constrained by something like morality is simply a construction that exists to benefit someone else.
Which is the fundamental contradiction of the whole post-modernist spiel. They claim that morality is only a construction created by those with power. But, the people most constrained by morality, in any real sense, are the people in power. As I’ve said before, bourgeois morality isn’t something we created to protect us from them. It’s something we’ve created to protect them from us.
“Who can, may.”
Thanks for the link. I like Hicks.
Just read the title. I’m not familiar enough with Russell to know if he actually believes this or if he’s just taking the topic on as a debate challenge.
seems a believer to me
If so, he’s an idiot. Individual liberty came into its own with the modernists and the Enlightenment. The postmodernists were reactionaries to the Enlightenment, dissatisfied with the elevation of the individual over the collective, specifically the Church. So they replaced it with the State/Society and Kant’s “altruism”.
He’s a believer, but defines postmodernism in a squishy “you don’t know anything is true. It’s only true contextually.
his main argument seems to be science is also wrong so we need postmodernism which makes little sense. I find his arguments not that different from some far left pomo. enlightenment science lead to eugenics or something like that
His argument is that people have been and are wrong, even about things they say are true. Therefore we don’t know what is true. Because Truth is unknowable, if Univetsal Truth even exists.
I think truth exists and you have to keep in mind you may not fully know it. In my view pomo just took skeptic and other ideas that existed a long time before, took them to ridiculous levels and dreesed em in obscurantist gobbledygook but that is just me. I think science has discovered plenty true. And the problem is scientism or blind religious faith in science, not science itself. Science does not say it has the full truth at any given moment.
Which brings up: why study anything if there is no hope of understanding truth. That’s my main issue with postmodernism is that it undercuts itself logically. That and applied technology seems to undercut the idea that there is no objective reality entirely.
The more you think about it it’s easy to see why it’s popular on campuses. It inherently rejects that anyone outside of yourself even exists.
“I don’t have to be right, I only have to be interesting.” – Stanley Fish
@#$% that scumbag.
I should watch it now, but how does he derive a system that promotes and preserves individual liberty from that?
I am not sure. Mostly scientific racism and eugenics bad and pomo protect people from that or something. Most of his arguments were bad things were done in the name of science and truth and as such there is no truth. or maybe I do not understand. Hicks talks a lot more about politics and liberty…
So, in short, mistakes were made so we should burn it all down and hope it gets replaced with something better?
The thing that gets me is that postmodernism strictly applied isn’t even utilitarian, it’s just deconstructionist and chaotic.
:shrug: I’m skeptical
Isn’t that a little like me not believing that math isn’t real because I’m bad at it?
Wait…I mean like me not believing that math IS real…shit.
I can’t even talk about math correctly.
Maybe grammar isn’t real.
grammar is not only not real, but profoundly racist and classist
A real deconstructionist would tell you that communication is impossible in general.
Which would seem correct if you’ve ever read any of their bullshit.
Also he totally mixes science with moral questions. Many scientists though eugenics were good and that some people are genetically inferior and need to be sterilized. this is bullshit. genetically inferior is not a scientific question, and even if it were a scientific fact sterilization or reduction of rights is not a scientific but a moral issue. Science can say A is taller than B but cannot say if it is better worse or indifferent to be taller
“Science can say A is taller than B but cannot say if it is better worse or indifferent to be taller”
I’m 6 foot 2, and I think it’s better to be taller.
I HOPE YOU GET NO LEG ROOM ANYWHERE
I’m usually pretty good leg room wise. My brother is taller than I am, and he has more length in his legs, and he has trouble in places.
I’m 5’7″ and I agree that it’s better to be taller. Really hope for my son’s sake that he’s taller than me.
you should have procreated with a really tall woman…
but jokes aside, while most may agree it is still not a scientific question.
I’m 5’ 7″ and I agree that it’s better to be taller.
#metoo
I did pretty well with the opposite sex during Uni, ferinstance, but given my experiences with women who stated their preferences, I’m pretty sure I would’ve killed it if I’d been six feet or more. There are also tactical advantages given the (thankfully rare) moments in life when size/height/reach becomes valuable for the purposes of intimidation.
Successful intimidation means less fighting. ’Course, it’s also the reason why modern sidearms are preferable to the Law of the Fist, said Law being the milieu which our betters think is best for us to live in. ?
EF isn’t super tall – 5’6″ if I remember correctly, I’m 6’2″, while LH Jr. is 6’7″ (!!) – had a Japanese couple in Charleston come up to us, looking at our son with wide eyes. “How tall is he?!?!?!”
So you cheated on EF and LH Jr is not her real son !
Or she had a thing for basketball players.
Ewww.
“That boy’s always got his head in the clouds! He’s never gonna amount to anything!” ;-)
Charles Darwin and every farmer who has ever bred livestock or dogs disagrees. It’s a touchy issue when applied to domesticated humans but that doesn’t make it true.
livestock has a specific purpose. humans do not. and one could argue domesticated plants and animals are often less hardy as such inferior
Speaking of tall and being an enlightened person measurement systems wise, if I am 182 cm can I say I am 6 feet tall or do I have to say 5 11 1/2 ?
Nazis got their ideas about Jews from American Scientists… is that like a fact? Because antisemitism in Europe goes way back
Yeah I call bullshit.
It would be more accurate to say that the two groups traded ideas.
Safer to say that assholes think alike. No need for National descriptors.
so after the 50 to 55th minute i am going to stop. Russle is full of shit factually and logically
So, now I’ve starting getting spam emails from this company:
Inedit Agency SRL – Aleea Socului no.6, Office no.30, Bucharest, 050088, Romania
© 2019 | PRIME TIME TALE | All rights reserved
*eyes Pie suspiciously*
well you can just send me your money in bitcoin right now an skip the long process which will inevitably lead to the same outcome
i really don’t like when you do that …
Does it make you angry?
Dammit.
that meaning a placeholder before the picture. My mind is used to scroll past a place where no picture exists and later a picture appears.
It is not like I leave the placeholder for very long.
true… but i am often confused. then again …
Also Myrna Loy was pictureless for a while 🙂
Applaud your commentary?
I suppose I could post something angry…
“Brown cow butt a-comin!”
Fine then, I’ll just shoot you and fuck your wife at gunpoint. Now that you’ve taken morals completely out of the equation, we’re just down to power.
MNG, is that you?
+1 Tractor PULLZZ
Where’s The Catcher in the Rye for the majority of readers who are too non-young, non-white, and non-male to be able to stand listening to Holden Caulfield feel sorry for himself?
Guys, I think you have the whiny, entitled, self-victimized asshole thing down just pat.
So, that person is incapable of enjoying a work of fiction if the main character is of a different race and gender? I’m curious as to how this is different than, say, a white supremacist who refuses to partake in any fiction that features non-whites. Goddamn, I thought the stereotype of SJWs was that they have a lot of unemployed English majors in their ranks – why do they have such a hard time understanding the point of literature??
PS: I agree with most commenters that Catcher in the Rye was total shit. A pointless narrative of some asshole teenager wandering around NYC all night.
When I was that age I was wondering if my pits stank, how I was supposed to do homework working at night, where the fuck is Nadine and could you please get off my back, MOM!
I especially enjoyed the bit about how today’s kids can’t “relate” to a teenager who isn’t helicopter-parented.
Seriously, WTF? Virtually all of the kid-lit I recall was kids doing things on their own, and maybe learning something in the process.
So I got home from school, fired up the X-box and Mom, that bitch, FINALLY brought me some hot-pockets. The End.
I too found Holden Caufield to be a whiny bitch.
Investigators think the woman was hit by the officer’s gunfire, police said, citing preliminary information.
So many people there, all shooting at once. We may never know.
Could be a random bullet that fell through the spacetime continuum from somewhere else. You never know the truth /pomo
Could be a random bullet that fell through the spacetime continuum from somewhere else. You never know the truth /pomo
Who was on the grassy knoll?
Jennifer Lopez s my best guess
wtf india, never heard of 555?
I’m being mistaken for a Bollywood sex symbol
If anyone has cause to complain it is guys who call that number thinking they can talk to Sunny and instead get this guy.
Clear cut case of fraud.
I suppose I shouldn’t be, but yes, for a second I actually was surprised that so many people really are that stupid.
+867-5309
Because the world needs more terrible booze in it. Hooters is distilling its own vodka, gin, rum, tequila, and whiskey.
I’m more surprised that Hooters is still in business.
can you drink it from a waitress cleavage?
“Body shot”
is that their market? i don’t ever recall craving a G&T or Jack n soda while crushing some Hooters food. pitcher of beer? oh yeah. keep em coming.
Prolly just someone looking for a name to attach to their product. Like the TGI Fridays line of frozen food that has nothing to do with TGI Fridays.
Really late to the party, but good morning Old Man and the rest of you Bad Motherfuckers!
Never heard of Morosity, but I kind of like them. Nice find!
I’m feeling spectacularly unmotivated today. Maybe I’ll go fishing…
there is no place to fish on the tundra
I didn’t say ‘catching’.
^That is the correct answer^^
He’ll be ice fishing.
After a successful trip out ice fishing on the tundra, Tundra went back home and nearly died when he tried frying it all up.
“Maybe I’ll go fishing…”
A man wakes up early one morning to go ice fishing. He dresses warmly, and heads out onto the ice with his tent, his ice auger, his fishing rods, and his sittin’ bucket, and begins to auger a hole in the ice. After just a few seconds of drilling with the auger a big booming voice from above intones: “THERE ARE NO FISH UNDER THE ICE HERE!” The man looks around and, not being a very religious man, resumes drilling his hole in the ice. Again, he hears the thunderous voice: “THERE ARE NO FISH UNDER THE ICE HERE!” Becoming a little spooked, the man packs up his gear and moves 30 feet from where he was and begins making a new hole in the ice. “THERE ARE NO FISH UNDER THE ICE HERE EITHER!” the voice thunders again.
The man looks up, “God, is that you?”
The voice responds “NO, IT’S THE MANAGER OF THE ICE RINK!!”
Tell it as an Ole and Sven joke and it is perfect.
sittin’ bucket?
A five gallon bucket (suck it metric boy!) that you use to haul gear out on the ice. Then you flip it over to sit on while fishing. When you go back you throw the gear and your fish in it.
I’m sorry you’re such a despicable human being
Following a wave of backlash, including from colleagues at Fox News, Lahren expressed regret for her choice of words.
“I apologize for my comment on Kamala’s personal relationship,” she said on Twitter on Thursday morning. “It was the wrong choice of words. There are many other things to take her to task for and I will stick to those.”
“I didn’t tell President Lincoln you’re an idiot. I thought he already knew.”
Again, though, why should Lahren apologize? Are we supposed to ignore the fact that Harris’s career was pretty much sponsored by a married man she just happened to be sleeping with?
The past is already being scrubbed:
California Removes Arrest Reports From Kamala Years
Pretty soon we’ll hear that she was mentoring the dude, not fucking him.
She was the Head Mentor.
“Exxxxxxcellent, Smithers!”
Ahem. “Intersectional Studies in Leadership Roles Fostering Mutually Affirmative Outcomes In the Workplace”
“Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Happy Ending.”
Bare Bum! Bare Bum!
Caldara: CSU victim junkies know power of changing language
*barf*
My eyes rolled so hard I can see my brain.
“Takes the cake” should be replaced by “that was easy”
No, it shouldn’t, and not because of their stupid ahistorical racism claim. It shouldn’t because “that was easy” isn’t synonymous, at all, with “takes the cake”.
Racist Pies. Brings a tear to my eye ?
i counted 15 because i thought ladies and gentlemen were to independently problematic words, i did not think it is one problematic phrase
You are too good at this. I could only find 9.
A real deconstructionist would tell you that communication is impossible in general.
They’re doing their level best to make that happen.
It’s Friday lunchtime on International Beer Day. Bitter hop to it, boss’ll be none the weiser.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/02/cheers_to_beer_day/
And yesterday was IPA Day.
You are barley even trying to make your puns hold water.
Trump is doing another rally now. Has anybody here gone to one of these? I’d definitely go out of curiosity if it were closer. A lot closer.
Thousands of fervent, friendly people united in their love of a great leader? I guess you don’t have mega-churches in Nippon? I’d rather stay home and drink my beer.
They’re not allowed to worship their emperor anymore after things got a bit out of hand that one time.
Stupid people, whycome you no hates teh TRUMPSTERFIRE?
I don’t write this piece as a media critic. I write it as a journalist who believes our fundamental duty is to inform. I started Wonkblog at the Washington Post, and then co-founded Vox, with the intention of shining light on important stories that went ignored, or unexplained, amid the frenzy of the news cycle. As a writer, I have written tens of thousands of words about Trump’s worst comments. As an editor, I have assigned dozens of stories on them. I know the peculiar mix of moral urgency, journalistic values, and competitive pressure that generates our news cycles.
But it is hard for me to look at American politics in 2019 and say that what we are doing is working. Is the public more informed? Are the incentives we’ve constructed leading to a healthier national debate? If the answer is no — and I think it is — then we need to be open to rethinking the decisions that drive our coverage.
Let me start by being transparent about my own thinking. When I choose to cover racist comments like the ones Trump made, my implicit rationale for focusing on that story rather than anything else is something like this: It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is an unreconstructed racist. It is important that the public knows he is an unreconstructed racist. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
But as the media scholar Whitney Phillips has argued, the problem lurks inside the metaphor. Sunlight isn’t only, or even mainly, a disinfectant. What sunlight mostly does is help things grow. When Trump says of his racist arguments that “many people agree with me,” I agree with him. I believe, as many do, that there’s a lot of racism in America, and that one reason we don’t see more of it is it’s held in check by social opprobrium.
Why don’t those dumb hicks learn the lesson I’m trying to teach them? They’re so stupid.
Trump is not my presidednt
When I choose to cover racist comments like the ones Trump made,
Idiot CONFIRMED.
…and, I’m out.
You made it farther than me. I stopped reading at this part:
Racism is the gotcha answer, a box that is easy for Salon and MSNBC to check, and just a rallying point and so much mudslinging whether earned or not. Much more importantly, we’re at the point where the President is a person who doesn’t deal with issues; he absolutely prefers the ad hominem. The sane and mature way to address one’s political enemies is on the merits, but we get too-ugly-to-rape, go-back-to-your-island, his-wife-is-unfuckable, blood-coming-out-from-wherever, bleeding-from-a-facelift . . . it’s really top tier stuff that I’m sure played well during third grade recess.
The sane and mature way to address one’s political enemies is on the merits,
No question. Shame we don’t live in a sane and mature polity.
we call balls and strikes here all day every day
There is far too much ball striking here.
Trump is a boor, that’s well-established.
Our last President was more fond of letting his apparatchiks call everyone a racist, while he kept his nose above the fray. I don’t see much difference in practice and it’s what gave us Trump, who’s just a giant middle finger to the race-baiters.
“Pendulum swing like a pendulum do, all the little children walkin’ two by two.”
“Much more importantly, we’re at the point where the President is a person who doesn’t deal with issues”
We never did. There was no golden age where sober, serious minded statesmen used logic and reason and science to skillfully chart the course of the nation.
I especially enjoyed the bit about how today’s kids can’t “relate” to a teenager who isn’t helicopter-parented.
Seriously, WTF? Virtually all of the kid-lit I recall was kids doing things on their own, and maybe learning something in the process.
Letting your kid read Hardy Boys books is probably tantamount to child endangerment, now.
My son had the entire series. I had forgotten how often they got knocked out. Dudes must have ended up with CTE.
It’s smugglers /just about every book
hahahaha….very true. They get knocked unconscious at least once in every book. They also never seemed to have to go to school.
I had most of them, the 1950-60s era ones with the blue covers. My dad gave me a few of his that were still in my grandpa’s house, the original 1930s ones. Even a shitlord like myself found them to be somewhat uncomfortable with their very broad stereotyping of foreigners.
The “knocked unconscious” thing swung very quickly from a simple clout knocking one unconscious (Hardy boys, or classic cop and cowboy movies) to having the shit beat out of you (Rocky) and getting back up ready to fight.
The Hardly Boys Get a Clue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcHy8xEt2QI
related: These photoshopped Hardy Boys covers sound more fun than the actual books
National Lampoon did “The Hardly Boys”. My favorite was “Secret of the Spooky Closet”.
From the Cummings break-in story:
I don’t know why, but I was very pleased to see that word in print.
if the break-in had any relation to the president’s remarks — which came after the incident.
Doesn’t that just prove that the Trumpenfuerher had advance knowledge of the break-in?
Yes, because the sheer force of his YUUUGE will can BEND SPACE AND TIME! HE’S ALREADY WON 2020 AND IS JUST TOYING WITH HIS OPPONENTS!
Yes, because the sheer force of his YUUUGE
*flinches*
will
*breathes sigh of relief*
Watergate 2!
I sort of hope that Trump did have advance knowledge of the break-in, or that it was done by some “plumbers”.
Why?
Because I want to get rid of the practice of appending “-gate” to every scandal. No more shades of Watergate if Trump was behind the break-in.
And even better we can append “-cum” to the end of every scandal from now on. How great would that be?
Cum-gate?
Gate-cum?
Watercum. Oh, not that one.
Servercum.
Gamercum.
Checks out, especially with a complete-ish list to play with.
They’ve tried to pin everything else on Trump, whether it occurred before his election or not. I’m waiting to hear that the South seceded from the Union because Trump.
Do you know why doves cry? DO YOU?
Hello, all. I haven’t been around much over the last month or so and for that I apologize. Let’s just say life has taken a decided turn for the worse and looks even bleaker for the next couple months. I’m not going into details but things have gotten bad, fast. So as consequence I probably won’t be around much or at all over that time. No, it’s not prison, just some horrible personal stuff. Anyways, I haven’t forgotten about and still truly love this place and the people who inhabit it. I hope to reconnect again in the near future. Until then, continue to be the snarky, smart, horrible drunks and misfits that make smile and think everytime I visit.
Later, Glibs.
Dang, sorry to hear that. Hang in there, and come back soon. And I’ll leave you with this:
“Trigger, please!”
Well that sucks.
Fuck off Tulpa.
Shine on, you crazy diamond. Don’t let the bastards grind you down.
Very sorry to hear that and I hope things start to turn around for you.
Shit man. I hope there’s a good end in sight.
Hope it all works out for you and things get better.
“We’ll leave a light on for you”
/Bodett voice
Hope things improve very soon, man. When/if you need it, we’ll be here with an open ear or a shoulder to cry on.
Good Luck.
We’re all counting on you.
I can sympathize/empathize, having had bad periods in my life as well (as I’m sure most people here have had).
Hang tough, and Godspeed.
All my best to you, bud.
Take care of yourself, TH. I hope your troubles pass quickly.
Chin up, Trig-sy. Best wishes for you.
Sorry about that misfortune, whatever it is. We’re always here.
In it’s very early years, HBO had a series about a guy that started with him falling asleep in front of the TV as it went to sign-off mode. I do not recall what the stories were about but it used lots of quick clips from old TV shows and movies throughout the story. Does anyone here remember what it was called?.
Dream On, with Brian Benben, Wendie Malick, and Denny Dillon.
It was a pretty good show and Wendie was a smokeshow back then. What ever happened to Brian Bennen? He was a solid comedic actor.
He was in a pretty good show recently called Imposters about con artists. Unfortunately, it was cancelled after two seasons. Other than that, the only other thing I ever saw him in was a small role in Clean and Sober with Michael Keaton back in the early ’90s. Not sure why – like you said, he was funny in Dream On
Thanks all!
Hang in there, Hippie.
Last night I was watching the documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams, which is about the Chauvet cave drawings discovered in 1994. Recommended, btw.
This tidbit brought up a question:
France’s Ministry of Culture controls access to the cave – only allowing a select group of photographers, journalists, and scientists into the cave. In a “libertarian society” how would one protect culturally important sites from being degraded? ie – opening up the cave to the public would damage the wall paintings.
The owner of the cave would control access?
OOH! OOH! OOH! MISTAH KOTTAH! MISTAH KOTTAH!!!!!
I KNOW DA ANSAH!!!!
The owner of the cave would decide how he or she wanted to best put it to use, and if that meant conserving it they would do it.
Limited access. Want to see these thingies? Only so many visitors per year at a much higher entrance fee. That would help pay for the filtration and humidity systems.
Portioning. Some pieces could be removed and sold to maintain their integrity and the budget for the facility.
Private ownership. If someone directly owned the pieces, they’re far more likely to make sure they’re well taken care of. As opposed to what happened at the open to the public facilities where government control of the site it what led to the degradation, not the people they kept letting in or the facility managers who didn’t properly deal with the issues that degraded the murals.
Conversely you could be an asshole like that head of Egyptian antiquities and seal everything off from scientists whilst selling tid-bits on the black market. I remember having a visceral reaction to that dude whenever he’d pop up in every documentary about Ancient Egypt.
In a “libertarian society” how would one protect culturally important sites from being degraded? ie – opening up the cave to the public would damage the wall paintings.
I’m with Adahn. Let the owner decide. Make photos of the images available to the public (for a fee? YMMV), and permit access to the site based on application and presumptive legitimate objectives.
Or turn it into a fee-for-use wedding chapel and rave site.
In a “libertarian society” how would one protect culturally important sites from being degraded?
Why would a private owner allow damage to a revenue producing asset?
How culturally important can something be if people aren’t allowed to see it?
Depends upon how fragile the site is. Nobody charges a fee to look at the Statue of Liberty from a distance but something like a cave is a different matter entirely. Most of these arguments usually boil down to the old fisherman and his favorite lake but in this circumstance I can understand why they don’t want unfettered access.
If you wait long enough, even graffiti becomes a priceless artifact of great cultural significance.
In the far distant future a creature rubs its tentacle across an ancient inscription. “For a good time call Jenny 867-5309”. What can it mean?