I am not drinking beer this week but the cryptid captors required that I write about beer. Those assholes gave me no leeway on this, and said that I didn’t want to end up like Swiss. Honestly, it was either that or I had to defend Michael Jackson. So they get nothing remarkable.
This is my review of Northcoast Scrimshaw Pilsner.
Let’s get something straight, I am not defending Michael Jackson. If any of these allegations are true, then he is burning in Hell for all eternity. That’s fine by me.
The problem is, in his time the allegations turned out to have little empirical evidence. This article here from NPR goes through a timeline of all of the allegations. Ever single one failed to produce anything more than an allegation. Some where the police investigated and found no physical evidence, another where the prosecution couldn’t move forward because one boy could not testify. Even one from his sister La Toya that she eventually walked back. He also had several come to his defense him from the allegations both then and now.
Thankfully, this is a country where due process of law still matters, right? … Hey! …. Stop laughing!
The problem here socially, is the attempt to silence Michael Jackson and remove him from the culture. Here there is a lack of precedent. One might point out R. Kelly was also accused of similar crimes, also acquitted, and radio stations are also not playing his music, effectively depriving him of his livelihood. The difference here is scale. R. Kelly made a couple songs a few of us can name off the top of our heads.
Michael Jackon in the other hand, has the highest selling album of all time. Thriller, released in 1982 sold over 100 million copies and counting. He has a unique ability to transcend time, and continues to influence artists even today. Want an example? Here’s Bruno Mars…Notice a resemblance?
Can they really unperson somebody that big? They‘re certainly going to try…
At the beginning of the year, I made the decision to no longer play songs by Michael Jackson during my DJ sets. I choose to believe that, in the wake of the HBOdocumentary “Leaving Neverland,” you cannot separate the art from the artist when it comes to using your public platform.
I humbly disagree. Its just music. He might have been human garbage while he was alive, but he is dead. He is not being punished, his kids are; as far as anyone knows, none of whom have committed a crime. His contributions to culture are immense enough to not have an analogue. R. Kelly can’t say that. A few banned authors ? Maybe but nobody is burning books. The Roman Catholic church is arguably behind thousands of atrocities, but nobody is going to burn the Sistine Chapel or throw out the Gregorian calendar in response. Too big perhaps?
Perhaps the only analogue with as much cultural significance and the focus of naked censorship because of moral outrage is John Wayne. But then, it doesn’t matter if either produced something that others can love within the context of their time, or within their art form. Neither is allowed to influence culture anymore, because that culture no longer respects freedom of expression. And that’s bad.
What isn’t bad is Northcoast’s take on the Pilsner. It is done competently, but unremarkably. If a safe bet is what you are looking for, this is probably it. Here’s another safe bet to go with it. Northcoast Scrimshaw Pilsner: 3.5/5.
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85 responses to “Because I’m Bad…”
Razorfist argues for MJ, pretty awesome,
Hi everyone!
Morning, Yusef!
He makes a fairly compelling case that many of the accusers are absolutely full of shit. But I can’t say that I’ve read up extensively on the matter or particularly give a damn.
I’ll tell you this. To get an acquittal on child molest charges in open court is not nothing. Juries aren’t famous for sober and rational reflection, especially in California.
The question is which bias came into play, the celebrity worship/race riot “acquit OJ” bias or the “child molesters are icky, even if the evidence is shaky” bias.
Howdy pardner!
It’s not R Kelly’s fault, after all he was… trapped in a closet!
Or just born in the wrong country.
Ewwww….
https://www.ageofconsent.net/world
Nigeria FTW!
I like Scrimshaw. A good beer served cold on a hot day.
I’ve been drinking North coast Stout lately, it’s been a miserable Winter, at least for SoCal, I’m going to find scrimshaw today, it’s finally nice and 75degrees
Yeah, Scrimshaw is decent.
The weather at this time of year sucks, but the food in the week leading up to St. Pat’s is just the tits. This morning at the diner was corned beef, eggs and latkes.
No off to turn some dollars into smoke and bangs.
“It’s sickening to see people blame @ChelseaClinton for the NZ attacks because she spoke out against anti-Semitism. We should all be condemning anti-Semitism & all forms of hate. Chelsea should be praised for speaking up. Anyone who doesn’t understand this is part of the problem.”
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1106907445006401541
Huh.
I’ll say this, the time from the election of Omar, Cortez, and Tlaib (sp?) to the immediate aftermath of the New Zealand shooting has clearly illustrated just how many people are disgusting pieces of shit in the public square. Also, I’ll go ahead and say that there are people leaping to the top of the heap of bodies to score insane political points who I desperately hope will have a moment of clarity, feel a deep and profound sense of shame, and be inspired to try to be better people moving forward.
“Also, I’ll go ahead and say that there are people leaping to the top of the heap of bodies to score insane political points who I desperately hope will have a moment of clarity, feel a deep and profound sense of shame, and be inspired to try to be better people moving forward”
Gay.
From what I understand Chelsea and Ivanka were (are?) friends. DJT Jr might have hung out with her too. At least, he is one of the few people in the world who can sympathize with being the child of a President and all that comes with it.
A few banned authors ?
Count me in that group. I can’t read Joyce.
Brave New World is going on my re-read list. Scarier than 1984.
Maybe but nobody is burning books.
Not burning, perhaps, but isn’t being Amazon’d about the same?
BNW is far scarier, do stoned to care.,..,….
I’m an Alpha,…..
Not burning, perhaps, but isn’t being Amazon’d about the same?
Sure. But to be fair if I were to fully research books that were ever banned for any reason, it would require a 10 part series. So I mention it in passing and link the first thing that confirms my bias.
My bad.
“Not burning, perhaps, but isn’t being Amazon’d about the same?”
Try to mention Tommy Robinson on youtube/facebok, etc.
Whee!
Hey, tomorrow we’re going to the Ethiopian place you recommended.
I hope not by plane.
Just found out a dude I know was on that flight. Nice guy.
Sorry to hear about that. Good friend? Family?
He was a mailbox customer at the store I used to manage. He was always nice and positive. Here’s a story about him from a local paper. RIP Matt. Vecere.
http://www.presstelegram.com/this-is-how-coworkers-friends-remembered-long-beach-resident-who-died-in-ethiopian-airlines-flight-while-en-route-to-help-others
Uffda. Sorry for your loss.
Yeah, bullshit. This is the same as saying “the personal is political”. No.
I’m not about to toss out half my media collection because of politics, either.
I mean, H.P. Lovecraft, Buddy Holly, Roman Polanski…there’s a pretty extensive list of artists ranging from the somewhat degenerate or objectionable to the utterly vile who have nonetheless produced worthwhile art. On the other hand, there are a ton of people who are very nice and live lives of spotless virtue who never accomplish a god damn thing and may even be drains on society.
What the hell did Buddy Holly do?
I think he was thinking of Jerry Lee Lewis and his 13 yr old cousin.
Or Elvis, Chuck Berry, David Bowie or pretty much all the rest of the big name rock stars.
#metoo
I think he died in a plane crash.
#whiteprivilege
HT for Zardoz for his weekly advice column.
TW Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/mar/12/i-met-my-girlfriends-parents-and-realised-i-had-once-slept-with-her-father
1. When I hear people in heterosexual relationships refer to their “partner,” my douchedar goes off.
2. I love the picture choice in the article, only the pondering model in it isn’t hipster enough. It really is just a perfect encapsulation of the problem here.
3. I’d tell the hipster to call the old man’s bluff. I mean, what the fuck is he really going to do?
When I hear people in heterosexual relationships refer to their “partner,” my douchedar goes off.
#metoo
To be honest, I’m not even sure why, except that everybody I’ve run across who does that tends to follow it up in short order with intersectional bullshit.
“everybody I’ve run across who does that tends to follow it up in short order with intersectional bullshit”
^This.
My guess: “boy/girlfriend” is “gendered” and colonialist (or something); “significant other” requires admitting someone else is significant to you, so totes not empowered; “shorty”, “ho” or “slampiece” can only be used by coloreds…
Me, I just go with “cumdumpster”.
ROFL… Proof they’ve just been making this shit up all along.
Yeah, this is recent episode of Shameless. Kind of a reverse Law and Order thing. Ripped into the headlines, maybe…
Well if she has daddy issues, you just hit the jackpot!
“If this whole family was as open-minded and sexually open as you, it might be possible for you to become part of it”
If only the family were as enlightened and evolved as you are, oh great wokified one! Get out now and join the incestuous, bestiality love-commune to help tear down toxic heterosexual monogamy!
¡Viva la revolución!
Never change Grauniad.
“Filming a music video.” Good one. I’ll add it to my list of excuses.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/witness-calls-police-to-report-kidnapping-turns-out-to-be-music-video
OT think of broken clocks, blind pigs, etc. But it could be a handy conversational cultural reference to use in conversation.
http://www.peggynoonan.com/get-ready-for-the-struggle-session/
She is absolutely right that we’re in the middle of a low-burn Cultural Revolution. The question is how far will they take it when the next Democratic president cheers it on.
Images like this need to be used frequently. This is what they are all about
https://goo.gl/images/nj3ZUV
Someone over at H&R, it might have been HM, posted about “To Live”. It spans from pre-Communist China to Communist China, including the Cultural Revolution. It’s pretty good.
My struggle session will involve how many bullets I can fire before the fuckers get to me.
Anyone who apologizes to the barbarians will find no succor with me. Defiance, death and destruction are the only answers. Expose them as the cowardly mob they are.
They’re happy to slowly consume the host like the parasitic, metastatic cancer they are. The fact is that they’ll already have gotten to you well before you pull the gun out of the closet.
I’ve seen no evidence that points to there being any resistance beyond the whinging of a dying conservatism to the creeping totalitarianism that is overtaking western civilization. If the best that liberty lovers can point to is the election of a moderate Democrat with a loud mouth to the Presidency, we’re fucked.
Truly, we’ve been fucked since before any of us were born, but it takes generations to unravel the consequences of this creeping totalitarianism.
The problem is, in his time the allegations turned out to have little empirical evidence. This article here from NPR goes through a timeline of all of the allegations. Ever single one failed to produce anything more than an allegation. Some where the police investigated and found no physical evidence, another where the prosecution couldn’t move forward because one boy could not testify. Even one from his sister La Toya that she eventually walked back. He also had several come to his defense him from the allegations both then and now.
I remember thinking about the accusations back when they were fresh that they sounded like a shakedown artist looking for someone to shake down.
“The Roman Catholic church is arguably behind thousands of atrocities”
Yup, except everyone think it is the crusades to the middle east and the Spanish inquisition and not the Slavic crusades and the Hussite wars.
I took it to mean pedo-priests, maybe because he used the term “behind?”
Bingo
It isnt about the RCC. It is about institutions where power is concentrated and the people those institutions attract.
Slutty Saturday continues with MUH TITTAYS
https://thechive.com/2019/03/16/cleavage-saturday-is-becoming-our-favorite-tradition-31-photos/
We don’t need no due process with these tits.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Whether MJ was or wasn’t a pedo, his father fucked him up royally. He never had a chance. I always have and always will feel deeply sorry for him.
I feel that way about every kid that has a fucked up childhood but at some point in their adulthood understanding how a monster or a fruit loop got to be what they are doesnt detract from what they are.
“You dont blame the wolf for being a wolf, but you still gotta shoot him.” – my grandfather
I was raised by wolves. At some certain point you have to either embrace or reject every influence you’ve seen. I made up my mind pretty early that i had to reject the negative influences I had and look elsewhere for inspiration. I don’t expect others to perfectly follow my lead, but I can assign blame for accepting and allowing negative influence to drive your later decisions. It’s popular to demand perfection from parents, but that’s not realistic. I have flaws and if i refuse to allow others too then I’ll have to apply the same reasoning to my own self assessment. At any rate, the facts tell it all. Many have been raised in extremely bad conditions and gone on to live good lives and many from the best of environs have gone on to do terrible evil. Every individual has whatever it is needed to discern right from wrong and to fail or succeed on his own merit, regardless of the failing of the adults who raised him or her.
Agreed.
“Reverend Mr Black”
You’ve got to walk that lonesome valley, you’ve got to walk it by yourself
I think he was made the equivalent of someone who’s born retarded. I seriously don’t think he had the wherewithal to make decent decisions.
I understand the sentiment and I’d like to concur, I just can’t. There has to be some kinda limit. I mean, did he know that it’s not OK to torture baby’s with a blow torch? Probably. Build a bomb and blow up a school? He did. He had what he needed to make those decisions, why not about messing with kids? BTW, I’m not sure he ever did mess with kids. He was weird enough and weird in a way that involved kids, to inspire suspicion of Pedophilia, and coupled with his extreme wealth and the incentive to be owed by him, it’s entirely possible that he was wrongly accused. He was acquitted in court after all. Civil court is pretty meaningless because of the lower standard and various means of assigning culpability. A civil judgement says nothing about a person’s culpability ( as if a conviction in criminal court does either, lol) Anyway, I admire your graciousness and forgiving nature.
I came across this in a store yesterday so naturally I had to buy them. I also got this weird feeling that somehow i’ve guaranteed myself a visit from our most notorious cryptid:
https://m.imgur.com/a/tPQoeMk
Hey, cool story, Bob. Hope you can run fast in those. Lookin’ good………….
I’m a little curious as to what STEVE SMITH’S angle is releasing a clothing line….or perhaps SOCK SMITH is the family’s shell corporation?
My guess is they are soaked in pheromones so that the SMITHS can find you even in the dark.
Damnit. Well, I’ve nobody to blame but myself at this point. STEVE, please be gentle.
The proper way to deal with Michael Jackson is just to talk about the correct one.
/RIP Beer Hunter
Food shortage prediction: John will be happiest.
My Instagram feed has randomly popped up pages of these “plus sized models.” Sorry fativists, at a basic biological level am I am repulsed by obesity. I cannot get woke and suddenly find that attractive. That isn’t how it works.
Don’t lie, Double-B. We all know you are on AllGo to find out where the plus sized honeys are dining at.
The people pushing that and the ones swallowing it dont find it attractive either. Woke isnt about changing your mind. It’s about signaling the right way to be one of the in-crowd. I dont get it. The in-crowd never looked like something I wanted to be a part of.
Same. My libertarian impulses were there as a kid in middle school. My reaction to ‘cool kids’ was “you think you’re better than me? Why the fuck would I want to hang out with you then?”
He isnt wrong.
Are our Nerdraska Glibs safe? I just heard about the flooding and pics look bad.
Do we have Glibs in Nebraska?
Saw some pix of Jordan flooding this morning as well. Aitkin had some local roads closed yesterday
The good news is that Altar Boy #1 says they don’t have nearly as much snow up in Fargo as here. Hopefully that means they won’t have the terrible floods like they did in the late ’90s.
I remember that. It was bad. Year before last we had it here. I am worried we are going to have it again this year.
The pix from NE are horrific. Gonna be some serious flooding in MN later in the week, not here though
Raven Nation. I asked about him this morning. Nothing.
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TW: picture by SugarFree
Lies!
It’s fine.
*wanders over, flees*
Oh my God.