What a nice weekend. Some fun football on Saturday and a nice family day running around yesterday. The same can’t be said by Nick Saban’s quarterback. Jeez, that guy should have been out of the game already. Also, Baylor took a tough loss to Oklahoma, as the Sooners cling to playoff life. Ohio State took their foot off the gas a little and failed to cover for the first time this season by winning by 35 points. LSU gave up too much to Ole Miss for people to feel comfortable with and Clemson is destroying people.Minnesota had a good run but the boat was being rowed against a current once they got it inside the red zone. Iowa won the game because the Gophers got tight in the first half and there’s not much more explanation needed.
In the NFL, its starting to look like a 2-horse race in the AFC. The Patriots and Ravens are just head and shoulders above everyone else. And in the NFC, it’s anybody’s guess how things will go. I guess part of it depends on which New Orleans team decides to show up on any given Sunday.
Soccer is doing the international break thing, which is boring. And I’m running out of space for a lengthy hockey report. So I’ll circle back to that tomorrow. I apologize.
French inventor Louis-Jacques Daguerre was born on this day. So were abolitionist hero Sojourner Truth, polling pioneer (whose company will come up later) George Gallup, singer Johnny Mercer, 1st free man in space Alan Shepard, football tough guy and Buckeye Jack Tatum, singer Kim Wilde, actor Owen Wilson, and talking head Megyn Kelly.
Alright, let’s move on to…the links!
Here’s that Gallup thing I said would come up later. Boy, there sure must have been some overlap in their polling, seeing as the number extrapolated from that is more than double the number of all Americans that died during that time period. But as long as it spreads the narrative, it’s serving its purpose.
LOL, OK, boomer. Seriously, its as if he is trying to present himself as out-of-touch with the younger generations. And probably 1/3 of his generation at the same time. Eh, he’s locking down the police union vote though. Especially now that Kamala has completely shit the bed.
Poor Congress. Nobody in Washington deserves shit like this. The audacity of having their actual job foisted upon them. And in an election year, no less! Those evil judges. How dare they?!
Man, I hope they’ve got a Jerry Springer across the pond. Because this shit would be right in his wheelhouse.
The Raiders-49ers feud is getting out of hand.
The victims were taken to Community Regional Medical Center in critical condition, and some are now stable, the TV stations reported.
About 35 people were at the party when the shooting began, Reid said.
“Thank God that no kids were hurt,” he said.
Yeah, thank God it was just four adults killed and six in the hospital. Dumbass.
Florida is outsourcing crazy shit to Kentucky now. All I can say is “Thank God that no hamsters were hurt.”
It’s back to this again this week. Hope you enjoy the start.
Well, back to DFW for the week after a couple hours of commenting. Let’s hope it’s profitable. And let’s hope some of you who live up there are up for drinking a few beers.
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417 responses to “MondayMorning Links”
The survey, conducted in September among nearly 1,100 people in 50 states, doesn’t confirm that a lack of care directly caused the deaths. But its findings suggest the skyrocketing price of prescription drugs and necessary care are keeping US adults from addressing health issues.
All it suggests to me is polls are complete and utter bullshit.
I got into a few twitter arguments on this. I posted the actual CDC mortality numbers for the time period and guys were still telling me “the numbers from this poll don’t lie”. Man, people are stupid.
Not to mention, I posted the causes of death rates for most medical conditions not related to obesity dropping considerably over the last couple of decades.
But these people won’t be happy until they get us in a medical scheme that’s run by the same dumbasses that can’t make the post office monopoly profitable.
How many articles have to be published about the absolute failure of the NHS before these silly fuckers give up? Fucking 8 month wait times for regular procedures?!?
Last week, I called to schedule an MRI. I got in that afternoon. Suck it, commies!
How much does an MRI cost?
Depends on your insurance coverage. I think list price, at least around here, is about 2K. You can negotiate that, however.
My out of pocket will be about $300.
If we had true free market, it would probably be half that!
In our area, the cash up front price for MRI at an independent imaging center runs about anywhere from $150 to $500 depending on type of MRI and whether contrast is needed.
I guess the answer is to just call around. I have no medical need, just odd moments of curiousity.
“the cash up front price for MRI at an independent imaging center runs about anywhere from $150 to $500”
It’s shocking how much cheaper everything would be with no government/insurance middleman. I read somewhere that open heart surgery would be something like $5-8k without all the regulatory, insurance and admin markup. That’s 2 orders of magnitude less than the sticker cost.
In Bucharest is 700-1000 Lei depending…
Which is about 1/5 to 1/4 of after tax median salary
You guys use Hawaiian flower necklaces as currency?
Man, Eastern Europe is a weird place.
that joke been done before. When the US dollar is destroyed in the coming hyperinflation you will wish you had strong currency like the Leu
I thought he was talking about the work product of a hooker.
” that’ll cost you two lei’s and a blowjob.”
We all know your currency is blood.
Makes sense. Blood debt just gets passed to the next generation until paid.
You are concentrating on the wrong things. A good health care system is defined by being free to use at point of delivery. Yes we can nitpick about patient outcomes, and there are some problems, but it is still the most equal in the world and no one needs to worry about paying when their family members are sick.
Lol. Well done.
“no one needs to worry about paying when their family members are sick.”
Because their family member will die waiting for treatment.
The 1st objective of a decent healthcare system: to ensure no one has to pay & it’s free at the point of use. NHS achieves this better than most. Does it have other, lesser failings? Of course!
It would be nice if we had reliable stats – if collected at all – about dying waiting for treatment. I know it’s out there and we suspect it happens but I’ve yet to see it studied. I don’t know if the Fraser Institute tried.
It’s a cult; just like the warmistas, just like the coffee-house dwelling Gen Z failures who insist that communism will be “different this time”. No amount of evidence will ever convince them.
“Do you want your cancer treatments run like the DMV?”
“IT WON’T BE LIKE THAT! LOOK AT !!”
Yikes. Metadata fail.
Oh well.
Look at…Q’s links?
Yeah, I had to deal recently with some internet blowhard pushing the “[my pet bugaboo] is causing more cancer” BS, pointing out that death rates from cancer were going up. I said that everybody ultimately dies of something, and that if other causes of death were going down, then things like cancer were going to increase. Oh no, that couldn’t possibly have anything to do with it.
Universal healthcare will make us all immortal. It is known.
Meanwhile, there’s a case in Canada where the government is arguing you don’t have a right to take care of yourself.
The people that want government controlling healthcare and for people to lose the right to take care of themselves see said control and lack of right as a way to keep the serfs obedient and in line. This is not about helping, but controlling the serfs.
That’s government trying to protect its turf like the mafia.
… Leave aside the grammar. How in the deepest pit of hell does a delay in needed treatment not ipso facto demonstrate harm? You need the treatment to correct a harm, delay extends the duration of that harm. Q.ED. delay is a harm.
There I demonstrated it for them.
Well, you just won’t be considered dead until the bureaucracy files you as dead. All we have to do is slow down the bureaucracy and it’s done!
Without Form 27b-6, nothing can happen.
Harry Tuttle to the rescue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRfoIyx8KfU
As populations increase and age, the inevitable outcome of a single payer system will be age maximums, after which time only palliative care is provided until death.
And yet the aged will still not be able to purchase their own care, because that would put competition for resources with the State run system.
“the numbers from this poll don’t lie”.
To be fair, this is true. The issue is that the numbers from this poll don’t actually say what these dolts want them to say.
My dad died on Medicaid, with full health care coverage. I can tell you absolutely unequivocally that he received better care when he couldn’t afford it.
There is a reason I have made sure I have my own insurance and will never need the VA or any other government program, and it is not because I like to pay more money for care…
Reporting a “poll” is now seen as a piece of news itself. Which it isn’t. News is supposed to be who, what, where, when something happened. A bunch of people having an opinion on something isn’t really information. Polls are for shaping opinion, not showing opinion
News hasn’t been like that for decades. They stopped even pretending to care in the past 5-10.
It’s now desperation and propaganda by people with an agenda..
Pfffttttt… polls are so yesterday. Now it’s what three morons on Twitter have to say about the subject.
eh a poll can be news because at some level it reveals beliefs held in common by at least some portion of society. The news however is not the simple fact that they believe that but whether what they believe comports with objective reality and if not why they have those invalid beliefs
“All it suggests to me is polls are complete and utter bullshit.”
No, no, just no. That was 13 anonymous whistelblowers who have proven that bad orange man kills people on purpose because no health care.
Well as long as you detail a long history of public
leachingservice, then they are unimpeachable.One case that is a major news story could get to the 13% level by itself.
Someone went to school for 4-6 years studying the art of journalism and news reporting, fought their way through the ranks of the local rags and unpaid blogging, finally landed a well-paid gig with a national news organization, to write a headline that any kid who ever watched School House Rock knows is utter bullshit.
Relevant
“Someone went to school for 4-6 years studying the art of journalism and news reporting”
I larfed.
You mean they went to the Goebbels School of reporting? Yeah…
Good morning, Sloop!
One week ago, I was at a loss, trying to understand how the Gophers, Vikings and Wild all own. The universe has now been put back in balance. Gophers had the classic hangover. Wild spotted the ‘Canes 2, fought back to force OT, only to live up to being the worst 3v3 team in the league. At least the Vikings showed up for the second half.
From the shooting article:
Yeah, bullshit.
Nice song. I was expecting one from the birthday girl.
Have a fantastic day, y’all!
“all won”
*moar coffee*
Fuck 3-on-3 hockey. Ties are OK!
I actually kind of enjoy the open ice, but yes, ties in the regular season are fine. Only points for wins, though. Then we would see teams actually play out regulation.
If they must have OT, make all games 3-point games like the IIHF does, with winning in regulation 3 points and OT games splitting the points 2-1.
No love for shootouts?
I hate them.
A skills competition to award a bonus point is a terrible idea.
I don’t hate them. I got used to them when we had IHL here.
Are we talking bullet time and wire fu shootouts with a gratutious number of white doves and a body count exceeding many small wars?
Jeez, that guy should have been out of the game already.
But Nick Saban said he wanted to play, and his teammates wanted him to play, and they were practicing the 2-minute drill, and he was going to take him out next series, and…
The only thing Satan cares about is running up the score on as many opponents as possible.
So you are saying Nick Saban should be fired? Never work in sports again? Run out of town on a rail, tarred and feathered?
Nope.
Interesting story: Saban played defensive back and was a graduate assistant at Kent State in the early 70s, shared a class with one of the girls shot in 1970
Sure why not.
He better hope he’s got a Cardale Jones on his team, because that’s what its gonna take for them to sneak into the playoffs what with their zero current quality wins and an injured star quarterback.
Well, that and a compliant committee that consistently overvalues SEC teams.
He should get that Kentucky guinea pig stealing broad, she looks like a football player.
Sloop, I saw this on Gameday and wanted to share
Oh man, that’s beautiful.
I’ve been assured that their win against Texas is better than anything Oregon or Utah has.
They had that huge win against aTm. LSU (among a few others) beat Texas.
That is another thing. I don’t find a 58-34 win very impressive. Yes you won and scored a lot of points, but your defense is shit.
Sheesh, Kansas nearly beat Texas.
The only thing Satan cares about is running up the score on as many opponents as possible.
To be fair, while they’re busy padding their playoff resume by putting up 75 on an FCS school next week, all of their playoff competitors will be struggling through the next stop in a slog of consecutive conference games. The playoff committee loves them some FCS blowouts.
FCS games should count as losses for playoff consideration.
It’s hard. I feel for some FCS teams who would never get any press if they were never given a chance to play, Think about the old BCS busters. So it’s hard to say that it should be completely discounted, i do agree that Saban getting 75 points on Birmingham State doesn’t seem to be very impressive, or entertaining.
Think about the old BCS busters.
As far as I know, those were all FBS teams from lower divisions. The only FCS teams I can remember making any noise were App St (knocking off what was, in hindsight, a very bad Michigan team), East Carolina, and ND State. The former two are now FBS teams.
FCS is at a fundamental disadvantage to FBS. Not only are they lower profile schools, but they have fewer scholarships available.
Hmm. i was greatly misunderstanding what the FCS was. Yeah…. That’s dumb. running up the score on podunk college doesn’t seem like a great idea.
BCS busters
I just submitted 1600 words near this topic touching on Ap St and Boise. I expect TPTB might could use the content at 11 some night.
So Climategate had it’s 10 year anniversary, and the end conclusion was nothing to see there… Who can ever know?
How long do we have now until Algorapocalypse?
Director Elizabeth Banks defends reboots & blames men for #CharliesAngels flopping with $8.6M domestically on a $50M~ budget
• ‘You’ve had 37 Spider-Man movies’
• ‘It reinforces a stereotype in Hollywood that men don’t go see women do action movies’
https://twitter.com/CultureCrave/status/1196146852187365376
I assume is a case of woke, but it should be easy to get men interested in seeing charlies angels. Also there were plenty female led action movies who did good.
Creatively broke woke director blames audience of the ip she’s just shat on for not giving her work tones of cash.
Would those be Franchot Tones of cash?
The shitty 2000 version of Charlie’s Angels grossed over $100 million at the domestic box office. The unbelievably shitty sequel to it also grossed over $100 million.
Just about to say that. Were we more woke twenty years ago? No? Then maybe people really are just jaded with reboots.
*checks current Angel’s casting*
Kristen Stewart? Sure, let’s take a stick figure with no acting range or muscle tone and try to pass them off as a sassy, rough and tumble fighting badass.
I watched those shows for the spank bank material… Not for the acting or the fact that I believed a 120lbs woman could take out a 300lb 7 foot tall brute with her martial skills.
I’m not interested in reboots and remakes. I’d rather see something original. I would make my own movies, but I lack money and talent. And really everything else that is needed to make a movie.
What, yet another movie remake of a middling TV show where 90 lb women kick the shit out of 300 lb dudes, but this time, they like to munch carpet too? How could you not want to see it? It’s original! It’s daring!
At least with Hobbes & Shaw when the woman was fighting The Rock he picked her up with one arm. The rest of the movie was meh.
Oh really?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_Raider_(film)
And the reboot still garnered $23m for the opening weekend.
I didn’t even know they’d made another one.
I didn’t see this one, but it was the first one I could think of to refute her BS assertions.
I also don’t recognize a single name involved…
Dominic West fool.
I don’t recorgnize the name.
ALIEN.
(mic drop)
Meanwhile, the critically-eviscerated Joker just became the first R-rated film to clear a billion dollars
It’s the patriarchy what done it.
For a while I actually thought about breaking my eleven year streak of not having gone to a theater to see it.
Ultimately, I didn’t meet the goals I’d set as a pre-requisite and stayed home.
Although he’s talking about economics, it seems to apply to this gender-oriented type of complaint as well.
saying men have superior abilities is sexist
Could also tag on: “any attempt to remedy this and create Heaven on Earth invariably results in the opposite”.
“men don’t go see women do action movies”
I can think of particular types of “action” women do in movies that are very popular with men.
Nobody went to see The Hunger Games
Documentary on Anarexia?
You’re talking about this, aren’t you you scamp?
Man, Ginger had some nice stems…
Rogers was good, but not this good:
https://vimeo.com/6971656
And neither of them were as good as this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8yGGtVKrD8
You missed the best one.
So did you
Fine. If we’re going all gay on the bit
Toxic masculinity for the win!
Anyone seen this yet? Reviews have been decent.
The obvious CG in the trailer made me sad. This is the sort of story where they should be using actual cars. It’s not like they have to actuall race Le Mans to make the film.
Tell that to Steve McQueen.
I said that they didn’t have to.
But I’m pretty sure Steve never used CGI cars.
I’m interested in seeing this even though I find MATT DAMON to be incredibly non-compelling.
My wife and I watched The Parasite this weekend. We both thought it was pretty good.
The best part of the movie is that it sets up like any traditional move, but then ends in a way that was completely surprising.
Thank you for the reminder that movie came out. I get a kick out of Song Kang-Ho in everything he does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tk80iXCspM
That was a good movie too! My kids laughed at a couple of the scenes in that movie a lot.
That actually looks really good. Did you see it up in CR?
At the Icon over in the West End. Surprising how many people were there for a movie in Korean.
Is that place gonna implode? Last time I was there it looked liked half the storefronts were empty.
Who would have thought that a movie theater and the stepford-wives of a shopping center full of chain restaurants with shitty food, high prices, and celebrity owners wasn’t exactly what people want in the 2010’s.
I hope not. That is the best place on the Good Side of the river to meet people for beers. Fairly easy to get to for everyone and I don’t care what Leap says, the Old Man Cans at the Punch Bowl Social is cool!
My daughter and I are going to see that when it stops at the local arthouse movie theater. Thanks for the recommendation.
SPOILER ALERT: I’ll share some details. If you like picking a picture’s technical flaws and anachronisms apart, don’t read further.
I saw it a few hours ago and would say that most people would love it. I’m an overbearing asshole who actually knows how things work and what people do, so I hate most movies and can’t be trusted as your advisor on a quality-afternoon basis.
Damon captures Carroll Shelby well enough; I was shocked. The energy and gravitas of the Deuce, Enzo, and Iacocca probably can’t be captured in a few vignettes inside a short movie by anyone, so I’ll let that slide.
The racing parts are largely drivel. This generation of directors and screenwriters have a childlike obsession with shifting (similar to the thing that goes up obsession at the NYT) as if there is magic there. They portray Le Mans prototypes outfitted with speedometers and even red-lines on the tachs. Endurance drivers apparently fight for every corner . . . in the dark . . . in the rain . . . at 300KPH . . . rubbing like Darlington. ok, Millennial.
And the representation of the reporting, the camera and television work viewable . . . back then to say nothing of today . . . is ridiculously detailed. In 1960, apparently, any child could watch Le Mans from California and know who passed whom through the Virage d’Arnage. The license taken is extreme, unending, and insulting.
But they do show the spindle nuts being spun on in opposite directions depending on the side of the car. I don’t know the GT40, but that design feature has indeed been employed here and there to resist the fasteners’ loosening. And there are some old tools laying around. One world-class mechanic is shown using a Crescent wrench: fail, do not pass Go.
If I were shooting a car race, the thing I would do is show driver’s perspective. The feel that has seldom been captured is the braking and downshifting into a corner, clipping the apex, and feathering the throttle so that the torque doesn’t break you loose. This movie doesn’t have any such idea: it’s just shifty shifty and some zen deal that only one guy has. They have the driving looking sideways, out his side window as he passes, as he avoids wrecks . . . was Boris Said not available to critique some of this stuff on a “no one would ever do that or say that” basis?
NewWife loved it, so there you go.
It was quite good. I’m sure it’s not 100% factual, but it was entertaining.
Wait, Naomi Scott was in it? I only heard about the awful Kristen Stewart.
I blame the promoters.
Remember kids: it’s the Pachyderms and Trumpistas that are the *real* anti-Semites.
https://nypost.com/2019/11/17/democrats-to-israel-go-to-hell/
‘He confessed that progressives like him are afraid to speak up about it: “We often refrain from calling out anti-Semitism on our side for fear of our political bona fides being questioned or, worse, losing friends or being smeared as the things we most revile: racist, white supremacist, colonialist and so on.”’
Then those people aren’t your friends, bud.
God, what an empty vessel.
I gotta run, but in case y’all missed it, to no one here’s surprise yet another justification for regime change war in the MidEast turns out to have been lies from the beginning.
Don’t trust what you read on medium
Normally I would agree, but Caitlin Johnstone is often pretty good.
Qaddafi was killed because the Clintons took out a hit job contract (for beaucoup money) from the Italians & the French whom where furious he was going to start selling his oil to China for more money than the Euros were paying him. Obama got his cut too. The people that died were just part of the necessary kabuki theater to give them justification. The sham with Syria was more of the same, only people had wizened up after the whole Benghazi shit went south for the cultural elite class that ran the country under the Obama administration.
Anne Lister’s diaries are just the beginning of a rich lesbian subculture being uncovered in Britain
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/gentleman-jack-anne-listers-dairies-are-just-the-beginning-of-a-rich-lesbian-subculture-being-in-covered-in-britain-500635
Along those lines:
‘Like chasing shadows’: Uncovering Colonial Williamsburg’s LGBTQ history
Because that’s what Colonial America was all about.
“We’ve concluded our investigationg – the past was very unwoke and didn’t support this sort of activity.”
Everybody knows the Puritans were fabulous under all that black.
These people live in an HBO series.
Shit, homosexuality is prehistoric brah. You never heard of the Megasoreass or the Lickalotopuss?
So. Tedious.
Shithole
Oakland, which has budgeted $87.4 million for homeless services and affordable housing over the next two years, has tried. The city is committed to building thousands of affordable homes by 2024. It’s also pushed “cabin communities,” city-sanctioned encampments and safe RV parking sites with varying degrees of success.
Oakland’s “community cabins” are small shedlike structures with a single cot, blanket and window that not only give the homeless a place to sleep but also grants them access to health care and links them up with a case manager. Though the city’s social experiment is 100 percent voluntary, residents are required to sign a six-month contract to stay, but then they are on their own.
Since the program began two years ago, Oakland’s homeless were given the choice to move into a community cabin or move on when their camp was being dismantled. So far, 329 people have moved through the cabin program. Of those, 209 found permanent housing while 120 others found themselves back on the streets. While ambitious, the community cabins have had mixed reviews.
“It’s a band-aid on a huge wound,” Candice Elder, founder of the East Oakland Collective, a non-profit that helps the homeless, told KPIX 5. “The city calls them community cabins, but they are Tuff Sheds. They are backyard tool sheds that people don’t belong in. You’re supposed to put your leaf blower, your chain saw, your tools in, not people.”
Elder, like many homeless advocates Fox News spoke to, believes better options are available.
“Like container homes and tiny homes,” she said. “Let’s maybe even look at model tent communities where it’s more structured, self-governed and where you can actually put resources like sanitation where you have wrap-around services and meet people where they are.”
Sure, that’ll work. How much do you need?
The homeless are really good at self governing.
do shanks and shit throwing count as “self governing”?
Does when you are running D.C’s kabuki theater shows..
Given a choice between a Tough Shed and the street, I’d happily take the Tuff Shed.
It’s like the dude has never heard the expression “beggars can’t be choosers” or “never look a gift horse in the mouth”.
Dude, chick, both, whatever.
Shipping containers are for putting you leaf blowers, your chain saw, your tools in, not people.
Also, leaf blower? Aren’t those illegal in Cali?
Everything is illegal in California.
Living in a shed?
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3b/b9/f7/3bb9f72e54bc3c36babab1ca38a8ec25.jpg
Good enough for Bubbles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I72sWzXCvvw
Bernie, if elected, will make him give up at least 1 shed.
Soooo lots of people get sheds in their yards to turn into offices or Sheryl She-Sheds, install insulation, electricity, wifi, heat and A/C, and the homeless can’t sleep in it?
I’m still wanting a little camper office, though. Hitch it up to my truck and take it anywhere to work.
That sounds bohemian of you, in a nice sort of way.
Thanks! As I get older, I feel like I can carry off the bohemian look.
If I had any money or energy for any more DIY, I’d do it. Maybe even a sprinter or conversion van. I have tools. Lots of tools. Mr. Mojeaux doesn’t want me to sell them yet, if ever.
I can imagine you driving into the wilderness for alone time.
If rather have a tiny house on a trailer with a pick ’em up truck though.
As far as sheds go, I put one in my backyard because when we got the disaster that it was, all cleaned up, we found a nice 13’x 12′ slab. I use it as an entrance to the mines for my orphans.
Perfectly reasonable.
I only don’t want a tiny home because it’s too much for my needs and too much money to make it worth it.
I rented office space for a while. That was nice, but it turned into a cage. It had no windows.
Mammary Monday pushes up to support and lift your work week.
https://tinyurl.com/rbhjrb6
Archive not working again.
The tats on 9 are a crime against humanity.
I like the way 50 snuck in an ass shot
2, 31, and 6 because green is my favorite color.
Every week I watch ridiculous “roughing” calls on Saturday and Sunday and I remember watching guys like Jack Tatum terrify receivers.
There’s too many rules. And inconsistently applied. It seems impossible to play DB in the NFL. They want QBS and receivers catching passes. I don’t even want to discuss replay review.
What I hate the most is a play happens, everything looks clean, offense and defense seem good with everything…and then a flag thrown WAY late from and Official WAY the fuck away from the play.
I’ve turned off games where a player is flagged for a clean tackle on a “defenseless” receiver. Now you are supposed to let the guy catch it, make a few moves, and then try to gently tackle him 10 yards downfield. Was watching Euro playoff rugby over the weekend – much more enjoyable.
One of the best lines I ever read about Tatum was in Stabler’s(?) autobiography. He was writing about Tatum’s hit on Sammy White in the Super Bowl (he decleated him and knocked his helmet off). “Tatum walked over and kicked White’s helmet for some reason. I think he was disappointed his head wasn’t inside”
Yeah, but Sammy held onto it.
The ball, not his consciousness.
Director Elizabeth Banks defends reboots & blames men for #CharliesAngels flopping with $8.6M domestically on a $50M~ budget
Go find an original script. ‘Til then, STFU.
Damn, football is fun to watch again.
Not for George RR Martin who supports the Giants and the Jets.
Is he still alive?
I think he’s been a zombie for years.
Apparently. Who says being a fat fuck is unhealthy?
Somebody supports both New York teams? That’s like supporting both Liverpool and Everton.
Yes. Most people find this strange.
Comparing the Jets to Everton? Fair I guess.
I thought about saying Man Utd and Man Shitty instead.
Good. I hope that fat douche is miserable.
And they wonder why they don’t get my money any longer. Obviously they don’t need it.
NRA gives chief Wayne LaPierre 57% pay raise
Spending up in every category except political lobbying. He’s ‘fundamentally transformed’ the NRA.
It’s been a tough year for Wayne.
For similar reasons the NRA hasn’t gotten any money from me for decades. Although I imagine when I finally get the heck out of NJ and join a range I’ll be forced to contribute for a brief time.
Maybe he’ll get back to writing then…
The international police organization Interpol plans to condemn the spread of strong encryption in a statement Monday saying it protects child sex predators, three people briefed on the matter told Reuters.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-interpol-encryption-exclusive/exclusive-interpol-plans-to-condemn-encryption-spread-citing-predators-sources-say-idUSKBN1XR0S7
Child porn was what led to the state AGs’ attacks on ISPs that eventually doomed Usenet. It’s a shame because Usenet was such a simple and well-made protocol.
Just a variation of “If you have nothing to hide, why do you worry about the government listening in?”
Just because I have nothing to hide doesn’t mean you can listen in.
+1 Clipper Chip
You know, if I was in the Ag subsidy game, I might want to keep my yap shut about how much taxpayers are being fleeced. I sure wouldn’t bitch about the unfairness of the payments.
The usual suspects are claiming that the payments are unfair because the small farmers aren’t getting most of the payments. Why?
Amazing! Payments based on how big a farm is ends up in the big operations getting the most $$ in subsidies.
Relevant
BTW, I left out the lede on how much $$ was doled out just here in Minnesoda.
In fairness, I think the money doled out as compensation for the losses due to the trade war is warranted. I’m sure we got soaked, but if the govt shuts down a market, it should compensate those who got fucked. That was only $500M of the $1.2B paid out so far though. That other $700M should be cut.
And speaking of the destitute (deserving and otherwise), there’s always this.
Show us your tits.
https://www.askmen.com/news/dating/s-more-app-promises-a-less-superficial-dating-experience.html
So basically unlike tinder where you get swipes for being good looking, here you do for being rich?
I’m sure people will be falling all over themselves to pay for this
Isn’t this what they do on Craigslist?
Craigslist is for child sex trafficking, that’s why the FBI shut it down.
Caterpillars are packed with potassium, calcium and magnesium. They are richer in protein than beef or fish
https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1195349228907827200
I am sick of this bug eating fetish the warmists have.
Their fetish is about making other people eat the bugs…
Yeah. And?
That’s why chickens eat them. Good for making eggs and cutlets.
And yet they don’t seem to appearing on the haute cuisine menus in NYC and London where these navel gazing pricks eat 3 times a week.
I don’t give a fuck, I ain’t eating no damn bugs!
They are also fucking tiny. There are reasons steaks and fish, etc. are a certain size.
What horror! A Minnesoda Baptist preacher is in hot water over accusations he abused two women.
Once you dig into the story you find out that the pastor was 24 at the time. And his victims were both 18. And he met with the parents of both women and discussed his dating with the women.
Sure it is pretty obvious that this guy strung the gals along for some sex, but it is also pretty obvious that no one involved wasn’t ok with the situation. I’m fine with calling the guy a sleeze, but these women are now trying to paint him as a #MeToo predator. (pics of victims can be found here)
Ha. I know a family that goes there. I need to bend their ear about this.
Youth pastor. Where’s my shocked face?
Huntington’s disease: Woman who inherited gene sues NHS
hmmm I dunno
“shot and killed”
Fake news. Everyone knows there is no gun crime in Utopian Airstrip One.
The obvious CG in the trailer made me sad. This is the sort of story where they should be using actual cars. It’s not like they have to actuall race Le Mans to make the film.
Bingo. I was almost interested in seeing it, until I saw that cheesy crash scene in the commercial. Fuck that. Just like those bullshit “shaky cam” shots they love to use.
With the Supreme Court’s conservative majority casting serious doubt this week on the future of the Obama-era DACA program, Congress is facing the very real possibility of having the issue dumped on its doorstep
The legislature might have to legislate?
So what is going on in Lebanon? Based on twitter Nassim Taleb seems to be overexcited. Will Localism win? Will Lebanon become Switzerland in the East? So many questions. Also what of the wine?
I think that’s his normal state of being.
I’ll grudgingly admit this team is dominant.
I really need to get the QB on my fantasy team.
He’s playing great but scrambling QBs have a very short-shelf life in the NFL. Ask RG3, James Winston, Marcus Mariota, and Colin Kaepernick. It’s all great until you fail to notice the linebacker with an angle – ask Eric Hipple.
Speaking of which – Kaepernick really made sure his “workout” was a publicity stunt and no team would ever pay him money to deal with his bullshit.
It gets more ridiculous.
Not to mention the greatest scrambling QB of all time, Michael Vick. And he couldn’t even stay healthy after a while.
Bolivia crisis: Food and fuel shortages as death toll mounts
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-50455581
Can’t we all just get along? It is so strange how humans can;t get their shit together.
They got a lot of shit together in San Francisco.
Here is my shocked face that after decades of socialist shit Bolivia now is a giant shithole as well. It’s almost like nobody could have seen this coming..
This video went viral on China’s internet. HK looks like a battlefield tonight. Rioters attacked armored police vehicle with petrol bombs, causing it to catch fire.But police still exercise restraint. Police should be permitted to fire live rounds in this case to counter rioters.
https://twitter.com/HuXijin_GT/status/1196109871784984576
The police can exercise restraint when the ChiComm secret agencies in charge of security can identify the agitators from video footage where they come at the police, and then send assassins to deal with them when nobody is looking.
My thoughts as well.
In some ways reminded me of how the Ghost in the Shell anime looked. Which always looked like some awful urban battleground.
Why won’t those evil Vikings stop the carnage! The only thing that I like about the new Vikings stadium is that it has gotten them in trouble with the crazy birders at the Audubon Society. They claimed that the glass in the stadium would lead to thousands of birds dying. The birders demand that the stadium be covered in a special film to prevent birds from dying. Of course the Audubon Society didn’t offer to contribute a dime to adding that film to the stadium.
Anyhow, a recent meeting was held to consider a study of the impact of the stadium on birds and how to ameliorate it.
The suggested solutions range from $40K to $570K. Too bad the stadium commission is made up of political hacks, or they could respond truthfully that they will be going with option C – doing nothing for $0.
the real Vikings 1000 years ago did not know how to pillage real money. Modern organizations could teach them a thing or two
two-year study on stadium bird fatalities. The study determined that an estimated 111 birds How much did it cost them to pay someone for two years to count dead birds around the stadium?
The funniest part was that there are a couple other buildings downtown that the study found killed a shit-ton of birds.
Unnamed buildings, mind you.
Rumor has it that one of them is the Government Center.
But no, let’s go after the evil billionaires…
Look, it’s natural selection in action. Eventually we’ll have a species of building and windmill resistant bird to replace all those smashed and chopped species. It will likely be nonmigratory and urban-dwelling.
So… pigeons?
I never said it would be majestic or desirable species who took the spot.
The birds have the good taste not to want to be anywhere near the Vikings.
At least the Vikings show up to play…by the second half.
You don’t sue the unemployed drunk guy that crashed the 30 year old broken down car he was driving on a suspended licence: you sue the bar or liquor manufacturer where the money is. Just like you rob banks, cause the money is there. That’s the logic at work here.
Canadian court issues first ever ISP order to block a piracy website
Legally, this is no different than the Great Firewall of China, something every government would love to emulate.
critics fear it could lead to further censorship of legitimate content
I’m just gonna posit that as long as you are working in a framework where the Government decides what makes something Legitmate, then anything it decides to censor would be by definition Illegitimate.
Good. Government stupidity like this only spurs adoption of things like Tor and VPN’s by the general public.
It’s normal once you understand Canada operates like a monopolistic fiefdom decorated with a mercantilist mind set.
Telecom companies are good at flashing their monopoly card and the government more than not will side with them over the people.
No one gives a shit about the children.
Can you feel TheBern!?
“[A]ll these candidates are good candidates,” Glover said. “We can certainly look at their records and them and understand they provide a great deal of knowledge and character in order to perform this work that has to be done. But there’s no one that can challenge, I believe, Donald Trump. And there’s no one who has been on the road and on the path that Bernie has been throughout his whole life as a citizen, or as a legislator, as someone who has been in front of the public.”
“He’s been consistent with his messages his entire career,” he continued. “And, certainly, we have to take that into consideration. I was here with the Senator in 2016. And basically, people didn’t know who he was. You know, they hadn’t come to know and really follow his trajectory of his life and his work, as well. But now we’re here — right here in 2019, and it’s a different story. And certainly, momentum is building. He’s worked hard of the staff whether they make it in New Hampshire or in Iowa or be in South Carolina has been very strong.”
Bernie does have heart . . . But not for long…
“He’s been consistent with his messages his entire career,”
Call me crazy but saying the same shit doesn’t make you consistent. Saying and then acting consistently with it would make Bernie consistent. Not having 3 homes would make Bernie consistent. Not saying he should get to keep his money because “it’s hard work to write a best seller” is glaringly inconsistent. The only thing i can see consistent is that the man is a layabout who has ever tried to increase his power and wealth through leaching off the community.
Bernie hasn’t been consistent on 2A
So heroine
Christine Blasey Ford, the California professor who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of having sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers, said in a rare public appearance Sunday night that she had a responsibility to the nation to speak out.
Blasey Ford, a professor of psychology at Palo Alto University in Northern California, accepted the Rodger Baldwin Courage Award from the ACLU of Southern California in Beverly Hills, near Los Angeles. Her appearance at the event wasn’t disclosed ahead of time.
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Blasey Ford has made few public appearances since she testified. A campaign to raise money for her last year said that after her testimony, she received threats and “had to engage a security force to protect her family.”
Late last month, she appeared in Santa Clara, California, to receive a similar award from the YWCA of Silicon Valley.
Speaking of her Senate testimony, Blasey Ford said at the Santa Clara event that “I simply thought that it was my duty as a citizen and that anyone in my position would do the same thing.”
“I couldn’t find a suicide vest in a flattering color, so that was the next best thing.”
Everything she just said was equally applicable to Kavanaugh (that damned Statist asshole). His familly also recived threats, as a result of her actions. He could have said it was his duty to the country to not succumb to false accusations as to not give credence to the tactic.
That would have been calling her a liar, something the Republicans tried desperately not to do. In my mind, that was a mistake. It will only encourage the use of the tactic again.
I don’t know…. there were plenty of people willing to call her a liar, just not the congressmen. And at that point the Republicans had to act like they were taking it seriously. If the Republicans had a ton of slavish followers in the mass media, maybe they could have gotten away with calling her a liar and burying the whole thing. But as it stands htt wasn’t going to happen. So they had to make it look as fair as they could, and let the Dems bury themselves. I don’t think they really could have handled it much better, considering they did get K confirmed.
Are there actual receipts of her payments for a “security force”?
Why do I doubt that she is actually worried for her safety? Too bad for her the Dems hadn’t come up with the “anonymous whistleblower” bit yet. She could have made all those accusations and never had to testify at all.
Christine Blasey Ford, the California professor who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh without evidence of having sexually assaulted her
Isn’t that how we do this now? I thought this was how we do this now.
Don’t you remember that her own testimony was seen as corroborating evidence of her testimony?
I also recall that confirmation of the most trivial points of her testimony – there is a person named Brett Kavanaugh, he is a certain age, and he lived at a certain address – was considered confirmation of everything she said.
Those are necessary but not sufficient elements of confirmation.
I saw Ford vs Ferrari this weekend. Great movie. Plot, casting, camera, all great. Plus lots of pretty 60’s race cars they reminded me of Speed Racer.
Excellent. I’m going to see it with my dad over Thanksgiving and was hoping it wasn’t a “great trailer, shitty movie”
In disappointing-but-not-surprising sports news (Yes, it’s a sport!) the one driver I did NOT want to win did indeed win the NASCAR championship.
Kyle “Ferret Face” Busch is a needle-dick weasel.
Thank you for listening (reading.)
Please do not dick shame people
Her needling of you hit a sore spot, didn’t it Pie?
I realize I’m also being unfair to ferrets and weasels.
Shitstain still OK?
GO LEFT!
I still think we should revive the Moonshiner’s Derby – Whoever manages to move the most shine from the backwoods to the speakeasy in the least time without being intercepted by revenuers wins. No set course, just a start and end point and packs of intercepters trying to stop them. No design paramters on the vehicles beyond one operator, ICE engine, and wheeled propulsion.
I like it.
Would watch.
On a fishing trip to Camden, TN back in the ’90s the only thing we could get on TV or the radio was a station that was covering the Saturday night dirt track races at some track just south of Nashville.
For some reason, listening to a hillbilly try to cover a race where everyone involved had a silly name was the funniest thing that us drunks had ever heard. To this day you can make any of us that were there start laughing by just saying “And Billy Jo Bob has cut inside of Bubba Ray…”
A Moonshiners’ Derby would be awesome, and a durn sight more fun than the anal Calvinball NASCAR has become.
So, basically, The Cannonball.
I hear ya, Traitor. I’m in the “Anybody But Busch” camp, just because he annoys me. Like Tom Brady, really. Unquestionably the best at what they do, but they are just grating. And its sports, so I don’t need a better reason.
This weekend I was listening to Joe Rogan talking about Epstein. Rogan had a brilliant point. Years ago these kinds of conspiracy theories were the territory of people like Alex Jones and easily dismissed. Now you are nuts if you believe the mainstream narrative on Epstein or the Ukraine.
I also found out that Oliver Stone did a documentary on the Ukrainian coup. Ukraine on Fire is available on Prime.
This has to be parody right?
https://mobile.twitter.com/TankieBenjamin/status/1196426970290098176
If ever there were a successful communist revolution in this country, I’d be very tempted to join the intelligence or police services of the newly-created single party state just so I could watch the life drain out of the faces of the useful idiots when their number got pulled.
Neckbeard? Check…
Fatass? Check….
Dunno, looks legit to me.
Hey!
We fatass neckbeards are not dumb commies by default.
Today in obvious news: Lending Between Family or Friends Results in Guilt, Hurt Feelings and Regret, Survey Finds
Nearly a third of borrowers and lenders reported negative consequences resulting from the loan, with hurt feelings (14%) being the most common answer. Additionally, 1 in 10 reported resentment, and the same number also mentioned decreased contact.
That’s it?
Are we talking about loans or drunken hookups?
Wait wut? You kind of admitting you did your sister in law here bud?
I’ve more or less determined that if I give a relative money, I’m not going to see the cash ever again.
Luckily no friend or family has ever asked me, maybe they already know I would say no. I would never do a loan though, I’d offer some money as a gift and move on.
I’ll help my parents, but my siblings had the same chances I did and their fuckups are not my problem.
My brother is helping us, but it’s a gift, and it was all his idea. It would never have occurred to me to ask him for a loan just because he has the money.
You’ve had a run of bad luck.
I’m related to people who make their own bad luck. Over, and over again.
It burned up my sympathy.
Our stupid decisions were first buying this house and then staying in it so long we got trapped.
But you see, that’s only one mistake, and not one where people outside the situation go “Why would you do that?!”
Thank you. I appreciate that very much.
Yeah, some people make their own bad luck, and some don’t. Buying a money pit and not dumping it strikes me as the latter. I imagine each decision to fix something was justifiable in itself, and then you have a string of them leading to a dead end.
not dumping it
I know you know this, but it’s worth saying: dumping it is not an option for most of the folks who get in that corner. Most of the people I know are house-poor: they can barely carry the note after stringing it out a mortgage 30 years. To dump the house, they’ve got to be able to take a big check to the closing covering the difference between their equity (virtually nothing in these cases) and what a savvier buyer will pay now that the cat’s out of the bag. If they had 50 grand to make the house go away, they would have had 50 grand to fix it up.
The days when the bank wouldn’t let you get in over your head are long gone, even after 2008.
Most of the people I know are house-poor: they can barely carry the note after stringing it out a mortgage 30 years.
If you take out the max mortgage at purchase, then that’s on you. Our mortgages have been 15 year fixed, and around 50 – 70% of the max we qualified for. Yeah, we’ve got a good income, but there’s always a nicer place you’d rather have that costs more. Don’t buy that place, buy the one you can afford (which isn’t necessarily the one the bank says you can afford). And the banks have always been happy to give you a bigger mortgage than you should take out.
Now, when you get a money pit, that’s a different story. You can get trapped, through more or less no fault of your own.
then that’s on you
I don’t have any problems. I’m just sympathizing with most folks who don’t know to follow your example. What is obvious to us never crosses most folks’ minds until they’re in trouble.
If you take out the max mortgage at purchase, then that’s on you.
People simply aren’t being taught the skills necessary to avoid getting pinched. Not that any of the responsibility is shifted off of them, but it’s a broader problem that people knowing better and doing it anyway.
We’re in a position where our money pit of a house could decline in value 30% and we’d walk away relatively unscathed. More than that and it starts to hurt.
That said, it’s a constant battle with my wife to invest in fixing up the house. She doesn’t see the value in pouring money into a house we’re selling in 2 or 3 years. She sees the house being a mess for 2 months while I try to find the time to patch the hole in the wall. I see the water damage that needs investigated and the electrical that needs checked out and the landscaping that needs redone just to sell the house. Quick vent without getting ranty: it’s frustrating how luxuries are always priority, but it’s a knock down drag out every time I want the time and money to fix something around the house.
Broader problem than*
I feel ya. I’ve had prewar houses, brand new houses, and our current 10 year old house. With the exception of the old one-room schoolhouse that we completely gutted to the studs, we’ve spent more on the current house than on any of the others.
Its crazy well built, but needed some plaster repair and new exterior paint, the roof recoated, the tile floors stripped and recoated, the posts holding up the back porch redone due to water damage at the bottom, and a fair amount of purely cosmetic work on the interior. It adds up, and if you aren’t careful, you can get behind on either the maintenance or the money.
This is the rule. If you give a relative or friend money, its a gift. If they feel obliged to return it, accept their gift.
A man’s best friend lent him a large some of money, and the friend started crying. What is the matter? the man asked. I have a feeling I will never see you again, answered the friend.
The Next New Big Thing- “neo-banks”
Better banking isn’t a bad idea, nor is it a tough sell. There’s definitely an ambient frustration with the megabanks that have destroyed the global economy, bilked consumers with fake accounts and hidden terms, propped themselves up on the comfortable elbow of your overdraft fees, routinely discriminated against people of color, and on and on and on. I mean, there really should be a mission to take customers away from these companies. At minimum, it’s smart to capitalize on all of this well-earned consumer rage.
Still, it’s deeply depressing to attend a large gathering of executives, founders, and industry veterans, as I did at October’s Money 20/20 conference, and hear the same, somber message repeated over and over again: The future of money will be predicated on the fact that the personal finances of the next generation are as fragile as a Fabergé egg. This, according to attendees and speakers, is both a problem and an opportunity. No one bothered mentioning that the sick state of the nation’s finances isn’t technology’s problem to solve.
In fact, the idea that the solution to our financial woes can be found in a more convenient, higher-tech, friendlier-named digital bank feels a little like the last story we heard from the tech industry: That the very idea of work could be disrupted by a bunch of apps, too.
The same business logic—that you’re trapped in a sad, hellish existence dictated by megacorporations, and tech can free you like Neo from the Matrix—underlies the entire gig economy. It’s the basis for another tech veneer, this one layered over people’s inability to find meaningful work for reasonable pay. Uber got into the financial services game recently, with Uber Money. The headline feature? Real-time earnings for drivers and delivery people, so they can collect immediately, instead of weekly.
In fact, we can use the evolution of the gig economy as a case study for how the latest wave of banking disruption might play out.
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A second problem is more serious. Ultimately, no amount of friendly design, accessible features, and overdraft protections will solve the underlying problems that made these services necessary in the first place. No neo-bank can erase the student loan debt or the 40-year stagnation in wages or the unexpected medical expenses or the crippling reality of America’s existential brokeness. The neo-banks have promised that they’ll ease your pain, but that’s just morphine for the real condition. When it comes to the actual sickness, you’re still on your own.
They don’t mention by name the ones I see advertising heavily on internet channels. The ones offering some sort of “cash advance” feature with no (hidden?) fees. Like that fifty bucks you can access on Tuesday isn’t coming out of Friday’s direct deposit? Are people really that dumb? Don’t tell me.
The point is, we’ll all be living in TuffSheds, before you know it. All of us, except for the evil predatory bankers, and the BigPharma drug pushers, and the venture capitalists and their app-generating stooges who think they’re saving the world, but they’re really selling us into slavery down on the kkkapitalist plantation.
Bernie and Liz will fix this, if we will just surrender ourselves to their gracious benevolence.
find meaningful work for reasonable pay.
Shit like this is why so many of us find Millennials to be entitled assholes who no sane person should have to pay attention to. It’s called “work” for a reason. And, no, it’s not here for your personal self-actualization. If it were fun, people wouldn’t pay you to do it. This notion that, somehow or another, your work needs to be “meaningful” to you and that you should get handed a big pile of money to do it just boggles the mind. For millennia, people understood that the meaning of work was that you had resources to get things you wanted.
find meaningful work for reasonable pay.
Two of those words don’t really connect up with the market. Especially if by “reasonable” you don’t mean “pretty much what other people get for doing the same thing”.
“Follow your bliss” is crap. It is always some life lottery winner, who makes a pile of cash because he was fortunate enough to have a talent for something that he also enjoyed and that sometimes pays well, who also got lucky and was in the tiny minority that make the money at that activity. If you are a movie star, a director, a best selling author, a rock star, or a pro athlete, you are NOT a representative example of how life works out.
Yes, there are tremendously enjoyable careers that pay 7 or 8 figures. Oddly those fields have 10,000 people trying for each job. If you turn out to be the one who gets the job, congratulations. Now shut up and enjoy your good fortune and don’t tell the rest of us that we should have done the same.
Things boomers told millennials:
“Follow your heart and the money will come”
“Do something you love and you’ll never work a day in your life”
Why? Because they hated their soul crushing factory jobs and dumped their bullshit on their kids. Now the kids are the stupid ones for believing the bullshit that the “me” generation sold them that they learned from all the self help, self improvement, eastern mysticism gurus sold them.
That is something my Mother taught me. She saw a video of a guy talking about how he left his job to do what he wanted to do (can’t remember what it was) and how he was much happier. She looked at me and said, “When you’re a father, your job is to make sure your kids are fed and taken care of. I don’t care what you do as long as it’s honest and it gets your kids taken care of”.
“There’s definitely an ambient frustration with the megabanks that have destroyed the global economy, bilked consumers with fake accounts and hidden terms, propped themselves up on the comfortable elbow of your overdraft fees, routinely discriminated against people of color, and on and on and on. ”
Banks did all of these horrible things, and didn’t let minorities participate in the misery.
It’s funny how often their arguments have the mismatch.
The US is a terrible racist country, dangerous for minorities, and it has to let the minorities in.
destroyed the global economy,
*checks global GDP* Nope.
bilked consumers with fake accounts and hidden terms
Fair enough.
propped themselves up on the comfortable elbow of your overdraft fees
I thought whether you overspent your balance was on you.
routinely discriminated against people of color
Its not discrimination if its based on your actual economic situation. I’d be mildly surprised if BofA actually treats POCs different because of their skin tone.
propped themselves up on the comfortable elbow of your overdraft fees
I thought whether you overspent your balance was on you.
I’ve seen cases where someone’s account was overdrawn cause they didn’t have enough for the fee and then get hit with an Overdraft fee.
You can definitely get into a spiral, but its all on you to stop the spiral from starting (absent the rare extraordinary occurrence).
Also processing all your outgoing checks before processing your incoming checks.
^^^ That. It’s purposeful, to generate fees.
I took my cub scout den to the Minnesoda Institute of Art. Its a great museum, full of a wide variety of art. Their displays on the evolution of pottery in China is top notch. They have great colonial era US and British art – both high art like portraits and folk art like jaeger rifles, cabinets, etc.
But of course, the nihilistic, Europhobic guide showed our kids the dumbest shit for an hour and bored them out of their minds. I took my kid and a friends kid for an extra half-hour walk and we looked at armor, swords, and a bunch of Catholic art.
Way to fucking turn off kids from art you stupid bint. If bashing Europe is more important to you than teaching young people to love art, you should have told me that up front. I specifically asked the tour to be based on realism and functional pieces. It was 100% abstract and modernist. Fuck you.
I can’t believe you’d try to force some poor person to help you poison the minds of a bunch of young kids Leap.
I haven’t been there in years. I must go back, if only to heckle that asshole.
All people should cherish their culture, except European Americans, they should cherish other cultures. But if they do they are basic Becky’s appropriating that culture. And if not they are white supremacists Nazis
I think the art world is pretty much trying to legitimate its own demise. Or at least its own “rightsizing”. There undoubtedly is demand for art. Even among the general public. But, allowing the public to consume art that they value robs it of its status inside the cultural circle. So, there’s an impetus to value art that the public won’t particularly value as a means to identifying themselves as part of the club.
Everyone likes to mock Thomas Kinkade. And I definitely understand. But, I have yet to have a cultural insider explain to me why I should swoon over the trite, derivative, pieces produced by the avant garde but pooh-pooh the trite, derivative, pieces that his outfit churns out to many people’s enjoyment.
I’m not a fan of Kinkade Inc.’s subject matter, but at least when I look at one of the pieces churned out, I can tell what it’s supposed to be.
When an ‘artist’ produces excrement and tries to tell me I’m not sophisticated enough to understand – well, the joke’s on the people who won’t admit their artistic emperor is just naked.
Oh, I have not problem with abstract art. But it’s not the kind of thing that’s going to whet an 11 year old’s appetite.
But they thought The Archangel Saint Michael in Triumph was bad ass (spoiler: it is). “Why is his shield so small?” “Why does the dragon look like a dog?” “Why does his shield say Quis ut deus?” “I can’t see everything from one side!” “How long does that take to make?”
You may be shocked to learn that the same kid with all those questions saw this and immediately asked if it was time to go yet.
We have this and a couple of sarcophagi (don’t know of whom). Those rooms are awesome.
SF’d, dammit. https://images.app.goo.gl/3CzJWJ6V6EdvoKCK6
Oh, I have not problem with abstract art.
In principle, no.
As practiced, which is an exercise in status climbing and sneering at those who aren’t into something which is so academic, yeah. Make your appeal that limited, and eventually people stop showing at all.
Agreed. Sturgeons law applies to abstract art as much as anything else, but the ‘art world’ has decided not to be the filter on the 90% of abstract art so as to keep the riff-raff out.
Dirty little secret: I like Kinkade. I am fully aware it is not high art, but I wouldn’t call it kitsch, either. One of my favorite places in the world is the Nelson-Atkins Art Gallery and I even like some modern pieces, although some of them look like they came out of a preschool macaroni-art session.
Just because I do like and appreciate high art does not mean I can’t enjoy peaceful, bucolic pictures that make me feel good inside.
I can listen to and appreciate classical music, go to the symphony or ballet (not opera; I hate opera) and then compulsively binge the latest girl/boy band and country/pop rock.
I don’t understand why people seem to think that one must love one or the other, but can’t appreciate both for the reasons they exist. Kinkade exists to make people nostalgic for something that never was and never will be. Commercial radio music exists to make
moneypeople bounce in their chairs and feel happy. Why is that to be sneered at?I find better and more diverse and more difficult-to-produce art at local art fairs anyway.
My main complaint is that it’s always a cabin in the woods by a stream. A little more variety besides the size/position of the elements would be welcome.
But that’s just me.
There’s more to it than that. I hate his Disney stuff, though.
When I am stressed, I pull up Google images and just scroll through.
Sorta related: Sixx:AM makes me happy. I guess dying twice and then turning 60 makes one a little more introspective. I followed Nikki Sixx on Twitter (I never follow celebrities) and promptly unfollowed when I realized he was a one-man inspirational platitude generator. It worksfor me in the music, not in the present real life.
Anyway, I was reading YouTube comments and someone complained that it was all uplifting and why can’t they go back to being dirty and gritty and hopeless. That was when I realized it really is uplifting.
I like pretty things and things that make me feel good. Hence, Pinterest, Kinkade, and hard rock with hopelessly sappy lyrics.
I’m not trying to trash Kinkade. I’m pretty much in agreement with you. The point I was trying to make is that a lot of the stuff they criticize his stuff for (trite, derivative, etc.) applies to a huge proportion of the high art that we expected to genuflect to. I’m not going to pretend I’m an art expert or anything, but I’m pretty sure I’m “sophisticated enough” to understand what they’re trying to do with a lot of the pieces. And I’m old enough to remember the same point having been made twenty years ago using mostly the same techniques. Yeah, Duchamp’s Fountain or L.H.O.O.Q. made an interesting point in a provocative way. But, the hipster douche telling me I should be in thrall of his installation doing pretty much the same thing isn’t really that impressive.
If you swap in ‘Gullable’ for ‘Sophisticated’, it all makes sense.
I’m not really convinced its even gullibility, though. I think it’s more a signalling mechanism. That is, it doesn’t have to make an interesting point or use a novel approach. Because it isn’t really all that much about art, per se, so much as approving of the thing that the hoi polloi don’t to establish themselves as part of the in-group.
Exactly correct. Its a way of delineating “us good sophisticates” from “those other lumpenproletariat and fly-over illiterates”.
This is, to them, literally more important than other lower concerns like “don’t put human shit on a plinth”.
Zappa’s commentary on fads is as applicable to ‘high art’ as it is it pop music.
“Transgressive” isn’t an end, its a means to an end.
When that end is obnoxious, like tearing down the cultural basis of a society or alienating as many people as you can, then so is “transgressive” art.
The problem is once you’ve debased and subverted all of the standards of morality and aesthetics there’s not much left to mine for new material. Post modern art was intended to (sometimes literally) shit and piss on the standards of artistic conformity, did so, and now what’s there left to shit on? Post modern art was bad on purpose. Making art that’s worse on purpose isn’t subverting anything, and yet returning to higher aesthetic standards would be antiquated.
Related: At our gallery, they had an exhibit where Renaissance paintings were recreated in fruit and suchlike.
Know what? I really liked it. I don’t know why. I don’t CARE why. I just did.
Oh, I understood!
This is in “my” gallery (Nelson-Atkins). Why? It’s nothing any art student would be required to do for an exercise in hue. It’s what someone might paint a wall in their house. What meaning is there to be gleaned from that? It’s not even interesting.
“Meaning” is secondary to aesthetics. If art isn’t something you want to look at, all the purported meaning in the world means nothing.
And I don’t mean it has to be pretty. I have seen some seriously ugly and grotesque pieces of art that nonetheless exert a fascination. But it takes real aptitude and mastery to do.
ITT: UCS explains heavy metal.
And how many times has something like that already been done? I’ve seen these sorts of pieces at different locations for the last twenty years. Okay. We get it. You’re stretching the boundaries of what is “art”. You’re making a point about color. The point has been made. Long ago.
Sometime, I swear, the worst thing that ever happened is painters stopped being considered craftsmen and got the elevated title of “artist”.
I think the craftsmen got tired of starving and realized they had to up their marketing. See: Picasso.
(Who never got called an asshole)
Prager U had a vid on this topic. I don’t entirely agree with all of it, but it’s certainly a point.
I don’t know how many times it’s been done before, so it’s new to me.
(It might seem repetitive and cringeworthy for me to hawk my books all the time, but there is always someone to whom it is new.)
There are many Hallmark cards I have seen that are more beautiful than things I can find in galleries.
“Every book may be a reader’s first.” – Paraphrasing a comic book creator.
It’s why I try to write my sequels to be able to stand alone. I’m not sure how well I manage at times.
When you get your she-shed/office-camper, we’ll know when to get you as house warming gift.
How many Kinkade paintings can we send her without getting duplicates?
It’s all they know, the guide was probably unaware that they even had such pieces available.
In other sports news, I wonder if Ferrari are trying to find a way to cancel Vettel’s contract.
Isn’t that what racers are supposed to do?
The lowest interest rates in 5,000 years wouldn’t have anything to do with banks trying to gouge fees out of customers.
https://www.businessinsider.com/chart-5000-years-of-interest-rates-history-2016-6
I Brooks’ed my response to Brooks. How apropos.
In other sports news, I wonder if Ferrari are trying to find a way to cancel Vettel’s contract.
“Racing incident.”
Yesterday was the best race of the year. I’m a big Verstappen fan so of course I liked the win. Sucked that Albon lost the chance for a podium because of Hamilton. By the way,if anyone wants a good racing movie (documentary) I thought Senna was great.
I’ll second Senna. I watched it with my daughter when she was 12 or so. She knew nothing about cars or racing, but she loved it.
That’s how you make a documentary.
High crimes and misdemeanors
However, if Trump follows through on his repeated threats to pull the United States out of NAFTA if the U.S. Congress does not ratify USMCA, automakers would be forced to pay a patchwork of tariffs under World Trade Organization rules.
That would destroy the cost advantages of their cross-border supply chains – which include U.S. companies employing American workers – and would likely force automakers to redesign their manufacturing models and find cheaper alternatives elsewhere, industry experts say.
The uncertainty means automakers and manufacturers are holding off on key investments.
“A lot of our production is very, very capital intensive and when you’re deploying that much capital you want to have a clear sense of what the rules are,” said Everett Eissenstat, GM’s vice president for global public policy. “It’s quite important for us to get those (USMCA) rules in place so we can have some stability and predictability to continue to produce and invest here in the United States.”
U.S. business investments fell 3% in the third quarter and 1% in the second quarter, due to concerns over mounting trade tensions, including the issue of NAFTA and tariffs worldwide.
“Businesses are already becoming more cautious about investments,” said Michael Gregory, head of U.S. economics at BMO Capital Markets. “If we get to the point where the administration is actively talking about tearing up NAFTA, I think that would trump any concern about China.”
Democrats, who are pushing for more labor and environmental protections in the new treaty, say they are making progress toward passing USMCA in 2019. But if that does not happen, it risks being postponed in 2020 ahead of the next presidential election, which would mean an extended period of uncertainty.
Democrats are busily trying to torpedo this agreement by larding it up with a bunch of labor and environmental restrictions, but Trump is the one wrecking free trade. Just like when he declined to sign off on Obama’s Pacific trade deal which had little, if anything, to do with making trade “freer”.
If government doesn’t pick the winners and losers, then social justice ain’t happening, brah…
Things suck, don’t they, when the party controlling the House decides to blow off the off-year elections and your guy in the WH can’t stop acting the clown.
The racing parts are largely drivel. This generation of directors and screenwriters have a childlike obsession with shifting (similar to the thing that goes up obsession at the NYT) as if there is magic there.
*thinks back to the 17-speed transmission in Steve McQueen’s Mustang*
As for the rest of the review, Don- exactly what I expected.
*I thought that Lauda vs Hunt movie sucked, too, based on the hokey race scenes.
RUSH was okay. I hated the crash zooms during the race scenes. They were superfluous.
I’m still wanting a little camper office, though. Hitch it up to my truck and take it anywhere to work.
That would be bitchin’. There are a lot of places out here, like fishing access spots or camp sites which could (in the off season) be great little refuges for getting some words on paper. I’m sure there are spots in your neighborhood which would work.
When I need to disconnect from home in order to work, I go to the library. It’s my peaceful, happy place. On Sundays I can go to my alma mater’s library, which is open until 11:00 p.m. normally (except during summer break) or 1:00 a.m. during finals. I t’s quite a ways, but I find the drive peaceful.
So now we have to worry about more than Tesla vehicles bursting into flames. Or Drake has taken up sabotage.
Tesla Supercharger catches fire at a Wawa store in New Jersey
Which has hopefully not shut down the whole Parsippany location. However, I’m not especially hopeful as the Allentown PA Supercharger has been messed up for weeks. Once again in typical Tesla fashion the execution and ongoing operation always leaves a lot to be desired.
Look, solar arrays, cars, battery walls, chargers, if it bears the brand name, it’s a fire hazard.
When customers are explicitly Your QA, what do you expect?
They learned it from Microsoft’s approach to Win10.
The best part is the customers willingly do this and get upset when anyone is critical. It is truly cult like.
I really like my Model 3, but it’s not perfect.
/Waits for the first report of a piece of Tesla swag bursting into flames
I can get a pretty good “charge” for my Subaru in 5 minutes at a gas pump>
I would not be an owner of only an electric vehicle in the Midwest during winter. Full stop.
But for lots of other use cases they work just fine. Essentially I start out with a full tank of gas every morning. On a trip you time your stop around food and bathroom. But I’m also not suggesting that it better. Nor that anyone should be subsidizing it either… Of course that applies to putting perfectly good ethanol into gasoline to wreck havoc with moisture and engines.
Are you allowed to plug in your own car in NJ?
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No, you have to pay a unionized, government certified cord connecting technician every time to connect or disconnect the charging cable.
Sean is talking about vehicle charging, not putting on a trade show.
New Jersey makes no distinction
When I need to disconnect from home in order to work, I go to the library. It’s my peaceful, happy place.
At some point, in college, I discovered the music library. When crunch time came (as it invariably did), I would hole up there in a cubicle, select some sort of classical background noise, put the headphones on and get down to business.
My alma mater’s library had a large music library also, which is very jazz heavy (it is Kansas City, after all). It never occurred to me to work at one of those carrels. I just take my noise-cancelling headphones and play from my laptop.
If only they had commonsense gun-control.
Ten men were shot, four of them fatally, during what police say was “very likely” a targeted shooting at a backyard football watch party in Fresno, California, on Sunday night.
Police say some 35 to 40 family and friends were watching a football game in the southeast of the city when one or more people sneaked onto the property through a side access and began shooting. They did not appear to have actually entered the house, Fresno Police Deputy Chief Michael Reid told reporters.
Three people — all Asian men between the ages of 25 and 30 — died on the scene, Reid said during an overnight press conference. A fourth man died later at hospital. All those shot were between 25 and 35.
“It’s very likely that it was targeted — we just don’t know why,” he said. “Somebody picked that house and came up and shot several times on the backside of it. It looks like there was a target.”
My bet is that just like in this case, they will tell you it was a white supremacist.
By the way,if anyone wants a good racing movie (documentary) I thought Senna was great.
Senna was good because they used real archival racing footage, and the man was complicated and interesting. And incredibly talented.
Man, I hope they’ve got a Jerry Springer across the pond.
FTA:
Either they have assimilated rather quickly, or Florida is especially attractive to a certain type of personality.
SOCIAL JUSTICE!
Saving the Republic
“The most grave threat to the life and health of our democracy comes from within, from a president without ethical compass, without an understanding of or devotion to our Constitution and the beautiful series of checks and balances it established,” he said.
Schiff began his remarks on a somber note, and wove in allusions to the impeachment inquiry throughout. Building to a crescendo via a litany of Democratic electoral achievements, Schiff proclaimed, “We will send that charlatan in the White House back to the golden throne he came from.” The line was among the most enthusiastically received during the speech. “There is nothing more dangerous than an unethical president who believes he is above the law,” he added.
Shiff is on a mission to see how much insane bullshit he can say and still keep the people that think this coup is a good idea engaged and wanting more.
“Remember me?”
— Robert Mueller
Is it weird that I keep confusing Adam Schiff with Peter Schiff?
I think it’s a bunch of things. The old Saul Alinsky tactic of accusing your enemy of doing exactly what you are doing (they really were using foreign policy in the Ukraine to steal $billions). It’s a fishing expedition to find out what Barr and Durham have on them and their Deep State allies – the same names keep coming up in the Ukraine scams and the deep state coups attempts. Schiff has a whole lot of personal dirt to outrun too – like his close ties to Ed Buck.
How did this guy, an obvious John Bircher extremist Goldwater Republican ever get into office in this day and age?
Art? Craftsmanship? You decide.
A good deal of fashion is art (fun fact: fashion follows architecture). The art is not in constructing the garment. That’s craftsmanship. There is very little difference between sewing and woodworking.
The art is thinking up the design and then successfully executing it.
Related, when the topic of defining craft beer would come up, I would define craft (anything) as the synthesis of art and engineering.
Books: “litrachooor” versus genre.
There are a whole lot of dead-boring books containing drivel written by middle-aged white men detailing their midlife crises. Please. At least make it entertaining.
Midlife crisis? If your life isn’t even interesting to you to live, why would you think it would be interesting to someone to read about?
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” was good.
Meanwhile at the cult of Apple:
iFixit: New MacBook Pro Keyboard Isn’t So New
I’m not aware of a single person who liked the low profile keyboards on the MacBook Pros.
They still offer machines with keyboards? I thought they’d doubled down on the reduced control set to the point where there’s nothing to make the machine do what you want it to.
Right? Everybody loves talking to their devices. It’s always so accurate and quick to do!
Speaking of which:
Mrs. Dean was recounting a story about a friend of hers, who had a conversation about needing a new gynecologist. She never did any online searches.
The next time she logged onto FaceBook, she was getting ads for gynecologists. Mrs. Dean had a similar experience, although I can’t recall the topic.
We both checked our devices (Apple for me, Android for her), and sure enough, the last update had turned fucking voice activated bullshit on again. I have to check now after every update. Although to be perfectly honest, I would be pleasantly surprised if it actually did away with the ‘always on” listening device.
I’ve noticed my Nvidia Shield TV likes to keep turning on its microphone after updates.
Speaking of documentaries about racing
This is definitely worth watching.
Trigger warning: drivers died, in the old days. On a regular basis.
Here’s another good on.
Ferrari: Race to Immortality
And yes, everyone dies.
You know who else was obsessed with races?
The Byzantine Plebs?
Also, re art vs craft:
Why are “artists” such lousy welders? Is it some sort of badge of honor to not care if your welds look like something which wouldn’t get a passing grade in a seventh grade shop class?
Great art requires both vision/creativity and craft/skill. Too many think it only requires the former, because they lack the talent or the sitzfleisch for the latter.
They didn’t offer shop class when I was in school.
Don’t know. But as the world’s worst welder, all I can say is “hand me the grinder, will you?”
Come to think of it, I have wanted to learn to weld. Not that I have a use for the skill, but still.
Here is another wordsmith who took up welding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Hess
“If I wanted to learn hard stuff, I wouldn’t be an artist!!!”
(Note – I’m not suggesting all artists would say this. Just the kind who would call themselves an artist, look at a shitty weld, and say “eh, good enough.” Lots of artists take pride in their craft.)
I don’t know how well these are welded, but I’d put them in my yard in a heartbeat.
https://fantasywire.co.uk/how-to-1/
Oh, nice. Sadly, don’t have time to do any of that. I couldn’t even manage time to make my kid’s homecoming gown. Fingers crossed for prom.
We’ve got a big piece of abstract steel art in front of the hospital. I actually looked it over pretty closely because the painted finish is showing some wear – the top clear layer is peeling off where the rain will sit. I noticed the welds looked very nice – regular “pancakes” all the way across.
Those are nice, Moje. I would be surprised if they weren’t well crafted.
I’ve been looking at these. I wish they weren’t in Kansas, though. I’ve seen similar done locally, but these just look better crafted.
Oh, those are GORGEOUS!
I’d suggest the purpose of the weld is different in ‘art’ than shop class. In the former the crude look maybe more important than structural integrity.
You don’t bychance happen to make your living selling scrap metal piles as ‘art’ now do you?
Fair point, Hype.
Trademark shit show in Minneapolis. Made all the better because it involves precious vegans.
You know who else was a vegan butcher?
I think we need an applause gif for this one.
No, quite the opposite.
That is in no way deserving of a cow or cat butt.
https://townsquare.media/site/76/files/2017/05/18342822_10155220267712910_2515464734492138273_n.jpg?w=980&q=75
Carrot butt?
I notice no one’s been able to come up with any guesses yet. So not worthy of approbation. A good “you know who else…” sets up a for a lot of funny responses.
“You’re not a butcher. Application denied. Next.”
You know who else was a vegan butcher?
Did he like dogs?
Pwnd
The NYT only makes ~$100M a year??
Nice to see someone call them out for publishing bullshit. Aslo FedEx has an Exectuive Vice President of Tax…. But the government isn’t too big.
corporate VP, not EVP. But the point still stands.
Too bad when Fred Smith finally retires/dies and the B-school drones skinsuit FedEx.
I’d suggest the purpose of the weld is different in ‘art’ than shop class. In the former the crude look maybe more important than structural integrity.
The “it’s an ashtray” school of art?
Not buying it.