It somehow doesn’t feel like a real Sunday without Lamar Jackson babbling incoherently into a microphone after 60 minutes of redefining the quarterback position. Well, at least I’ll be enjoying some vindaloo while watching SP going nuts at the TV set, swaddled in her Green Bay gear. “That Aaron Rodgers, his eyes are just soooooo dreamy…” There’s cold Gruet, and after that and a few bottles of Mike’s Hard Lemonade, I should be ready to cheer on the Bills as they destroy any playoff hopes of the Steelers. It will almost be like a birthday present except it’s not my birthday.
But it IS the birthday of a guy who deserved his glowing recommendations; the most famous farmer of the ’60s; one of the most interesting and sane voices in science; and one of the funniest and most charming people SP and I have ever seen in live performance.
On to the news.
More Trump antisemitism. Or something.
“Whatever it takes to get re-elected.”
The first of several articles from Science. And why I will never give a penny to AAAS.
And yet more Science Gone Woke.
Old Guy Music- I just love these guys, pure joy. Pure, pure joy.
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390 responses to “Sunday Morning Links of Distinction”
1 Bq = 10-6 rad or 27pCi
boorish reviewer comments can have serious negative impacts
Bullshit.
Quit hogging the spotlight. 4/10 wouldn’t buy again.
Right. Not with the people that count.
I’ve written a whole article about this. Really next time you should link to it.
Diversity supplements can be used to support students from high school through postdoctoral training. NIH’s previous definition of disadvantaged referred to students whose pursuit of a research career was hampered by living in “an educational environment such as those found in certain rural or inner-city environments.” But that language may have confused people, says Michael Lauer, who leads NIH’s office of extramural research. “What does [that] mean?” Lauer asked in a 26 November blog announcing the change, adding that the phrase “is nearly impossible to evaluate.”
Mission accomplished.
For twenty years I have been warning that ‘wokety wokeness’ was going to take a giant shit on the already shaky credibility of science in the public’s mind.
It is no accident that progressivism turns everything they touch to shit.
I wonder, out of one hundred people randomly chosen from the public how many of them even know what science is. My guess, you would have to pick five times that many before you found even one. The same is probably true of college seniors.
Sciencey supremacy: ‘We consider it irresponsible to override the historical context of this descriptor,…’
Isn’t that pretty much what you’re doing right now?
‘…which risks sustaining divisions in race, gender and class. We call for the community to use ‘quantum advantage’ instead.’
Pretty sure the word quantum was first used by an early twentieth century, cisgender white male. The most inclusive descriptor is the employment of a series of grunts and fecal-flinging. Get on that shit.
Once racists use a word it is forever stained.
You mean once the wokesters accuse a word of being used by imaginary racists. There is a difference.
Imaginary is so laden in racist history. We use the word, credible.
^ This comment is dripping with white quantum advantage. ^
Even worse, by some german guy in the 19th century:
https://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/quantum
NIH’s new definition of disadvantaged—which applies to all of the agency’s programs meant to foster diversity—has seven components. A person is eligible if they have been homeless, or qualified for a free or reduced-priced lunch in elementary or high school, or if they meet the income level requirements to receive a federal Pell grant to help finance their college education. NIH also invites in those who were in foster care, whose parents never graduated from college, or who grew up in a rural area or a region with a shortage of health professionals.
“We wanted to make it easy for students to self-identify while not being overly redundant,” says Jon Lorsch, director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, the hub of NIH’s diversity activities. The goal of the supplements remains the same, he says: helping students overcome barriers caused by their low economic status.
I don’t see anything about any substantive demonstration of knowledge, or aptitude.
‘Overly redundant’
I see. We wouldn’t want to be overly.
*facepalm*
Well just slap your white, male cis-ness right down on the table.
Oddly, the young OMWC would have qualified. And refused to participate.
Ditto and on every criterion except the “foster care” one.
So what’s the deal? Do they just throw money at you (yes, please!) or do you have to “participate” in some woke nonsense (hell no).
*sends application to NIH* I got that in the bag!
I wonder, out of one hundred people randomly chosen from the public how many of them even know what science is.
“It’s sorta like an app, right?”
A venerated cabal of wise elders who are learned scholars of The Consensus and it’s place in The Narrative. False prophets must be destroyed!
It’s finding he facts needed to confirm your preferred outcome. Right?
Uh oh! Nazis! (Army-Navy sportsball)
(emphasis mine)
WTF?!? We were playing this in grade school in the 1970s.
Top drawer journalism, as always.
Didn’t 4Chan originally start that whole thing?
Yes they did. As always the prog idiots are the cat that just cant resist chasing the laser spot. They never learn.
I had never heard of it until the past five years sometime. So I have to wonder about the geographic distribution pre-internet.
Even in the UK I was playing it >10 years ago.
When I was a teen, it was “Punch Buggy”; I don’t remember the circle game although that doesn’t mean it didn’t exist.
I’ve only more recently become aware if it being referred to as “the circle game” – I don’t think we called it anything when we did it.
Yeah we didn’t call it anything but I learned how to play it almost 20 years ago. I remember it pretty well.
Well, Malcolm in the Middle was on almost 20 years ago, so you aren’t disproving this stunningly brave journalist.
Do you answer before reaching the end of the comment?
Yep, I did that in the early nineties. After puberty took hold, my friends and I moved on to “Odds or Evens”, a game in which you grabbed a pinch of either arm or leg hair and made them guess if the count was, well, odd or even. If you guessed wrong, you got an arm slug, another rip of hair, and another guess. A bad run of luck could leave with a bald patch and a purple shoulder.
Circle WHAT?
’70s for us as well. My parents even got into the spirit and got my sister at her high school graduation when she looked in their direction. That was 1974…
Played it in New Castle, IN circa 1986.
Also “slug bug”; punch in the arm when spotting a VW Bug.
“Perdiddle”; punch in the arm when spotting a car with only one headlight.
That’s not how we played perdiddle….
What was your perdiddle?
Well. It was a variant that you played with one of the female persuasion.
When you saw a car with one headlight, you hit the roof and whoever was last had to remove an item of clothing.
There was a variation on “slug bug” in the UK called “yellow car” – yellow as a color for cars seemed to drop off in popularity after the ’90s, though.
I played it in the 80s.
And some of us started playing it at work about 6 years ago. Not sure who started it.
Learned from my great uncle back in early 80s…so…jounos doing what they do best.
Reminds me of when my kids came home singing Batman Smells to the tune of Jingle Bells and claim they made it all up by themselves
OK
‘Anyone trying to deny that this is a white power hand signal, are most likely to be white supremacist themselves,’ Nasheed added.
I think I ruptured my eyes from rolling them so hard.
Logic!
TIL that Tariq is not just an internet troll, he’s “author of dating advice book The Art Of Mackin’“.
HHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Never change, The Daily Mail.
It’s kinda funny – in Japan the “OK” gesture can mean three different things.
With the forearm generally upright and the opening of the gesture generally towards the viewer it means “OK” like it always has everywhere.
With the forearm generally horizontal or angled slightly upwards with the palm of the hand facing up, the “ring” of the gesture being vertical, it means “money” (symbolizing a coin).
And in the right context, done similar to the above “coin” gesture it means “a condom”.
But I can see that in the woke era we have to find Nazis everywhere.
https://www.lionsroar.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/swastika1.jpg
Nazi
Nazis everywhere!!
It’s in the damn dictionary(.com)!
Probably a white supremacist wrote that, just to throw off the scent.
Right? That definition is suspiciously lacking in wokeness.
Good grief, not this shit again. It’s a silly game that guys play among themselves and not a white power symbol. If these guys get bounced for this it’s just another sign that the military is beyond fucking hope.
I think it’s funny that there are probably people who think the game was made up as a cover for white supremacists.
Just wait till they notice all the white supremacist hand gestures in baseball games
Yadier Molina on the mound: “Yo – why did you bounce that one?”
Adam Wainwright: “You called for a change‐up.”
YM: “Nah, dog…”
I larfed.
Ah, NOLA… Feral dogs, feral musicians. Had they been just 6 blocks up and over, I would have had to water the plants on my balcony. Tuba Skinny, however, are very nice folk and are playing on a block with no private residences below the 3rd story because they are awesome and respectful of their neighbors.
How about “quantum privilege”? Now that is racist!
Supremacy is used in many contexts and the last thing that comes to my mind is racism, but the useful idiot can only see one thing.
Schrödinger’s privilege.
Now I am more confused. This is why I am not a physicist although with a bit of unkempt care I could pull off the hair.
TIL about the “This man looks like science” meme.
I honestly thought that was what the article was going to be about.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Wu_Tang_Finance/status/1204887753940492299
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Don’t forget the original Wu-Tang Financial.
Marvellous
Konichiwa bitches!
Classic
Oh how I laughed. Good stuff.
The old extras trying to box each other out on camera and getting pissed is always the best part of that clip, classic move.
Supreme ruler
California Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected a bankruptcy restructuring plan by the state’s largest utility, saying it “falls woefully short” of safety standards mandated under state law.
The governor’s criticisms come a week after Pacific Gas and Electric announced a multibillion-dollar settlement proposal to pay victims of several wildfires linked to the utility’s faulty equipment.
Newsom’s move complicates PG&E’s efforts to both maintain control of its operations and move quickly through bankruptcy proceedings. PG&E declared bankruptcy in January, announcing it faced potential liabilities of $30 billion.
In a letter to PG&E CEO William Johnson, Newsom said the utility’s restructuring plans “do not result in a reorganized company positioned to provide safe, reliable and affordable service to its customers.”
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Newsom’s approval of the restructuring plan is not required under state law, as the Los Angeles Times points out, adding, “PG&E asked the governor to weigh in after reaching a $13.5-billion settlement with victims of some of California’s worst wildfires on record last week.”
Jennifer Robison, a spokesperson for PG&E, told the Los Angeles Times that the company disagreed with the governor’s assessment of the restructuring plan, adding the utility would be working “diligently in the coming days to resolve any issues that may arise.”
The paper notes that the utility has until Tuesday to submit a revised proposal.
The Sacramento Bee referred to the governor’s letter as a “stunning rebuke” that came just days after PG&E presumed it had reached a settlement deal with lawyers representing “more than 70,000 wildfire victims.”
The paper added: “But the utility wasn’t home free after all. Now it will have to overhaul the proposal, and quickly.”
So which is it? Does Newsome have veto power, or doesn’t he? On what, other than feelz (and political grandstanding) is his analysis based?
Then PG&E should just liquidate and cease all operations in California.
Yep. Just shut down and walk away.
California: fine we’ll just nationalize the lighting.
Leftists: see the market can’t provide even electricity.
Californians: wailing and gnashing of teeth
Oh, quit with the snow job and just nationalize it already. The excuses why California has no electricity will be endlessly entertaining.
Nah, the current setup gives the pols deniability and a whipping boy. You expect them to take responsibility?
I remember when South Africa was nationalizing everything. They nationalized the mines (gold and diamonds) thinking they would be swimming in riches.
*The gold ore there would not be called ore anywhere else in the world. The only reason the mines were barely able to keep their heads above water was the cheap labor, they nearly paid slave wages.
*The timber company owned by the mining companies was a subsidiary that operated on a loss and was used to supply timbers for the mine and as a tax write-off. Of course the govt claimed that the evil whites had stolen all of the gold and diamonds and that is why the companies couldn’t make money and they could not raise wages. It was the fault of the evil, greedy white capitalists.
After nationalization the government couldn’t make heads or tails of how to run the company and could not understand what happened to all of the riches they had expected. The mines turned to shit and most of them closed down.
It isn’t that I expect the pols in CA to take responsibility, it is that I don’t think they have a clue why PG&E is about to fold. They probably think the stinking rich robber barons are hiding the money, hoarding it for themselves and the pols want to get their hands on that. After they nationalize it they will run into the same problems as SA did but I assure you they will find someone else to blame for the disaster. The infrastructure will crumble, the fires will be more frequent and the state will exempt itself from civil liability.
Same commie shit-show we have seen a hundred times before.
RSA has not nationalized the mines. There have been rumors about this for years but it is not a real thing, at least not yet. The problem with the gold mines is not ore quality it is extraction cost and depletion of reserves. Mines don’t last for ever. South Africa was a world leader in mining tech and managed to do some really impressive things in the gold mines, including the 2 mile deep shaft East Rand Mine.
My father bought S African gold mining stocks when Nixon closed the gold window and I have heard waaaaay too much about mining there over the years.
So. this occurred to me as soon as I said to myself, “PG&E needs to go Galt”: Wouldn’t CA just enact legislation to keep the leadership from leaving and shutting down the company? I can’t think of any scenario that would allow PG&E to shut down.
Agreed, it would be illegal.
“Wouldn’t CA just enact legislation to keep the leadership from leaving and shutting down the company? ”
They probably would, despite it being compulsory labor. No the only option would be to abandon the company and its assets to be siezed by California, which is most likely going to happen anyway.
At the point CA-run utilities can’t provide electricity to Silicon Valley, there will be a mass exodus except for the shitting and shooting-up homeless in San Francisco.
I suspect that every big server farm has it’s own backup generators – some probably can operate cheaper than the PG&E provided power.
I don’t know of Mr. Digby is still around, but he might want to watch Louis Jourdan in Julie, a movie which also showed that Doris Day could really act.
“Whatever it takes to get re-elected.”
Given his district it’s not that surprising. While the supply or RINOs and the highly endangered Blue Dogs are most certainly dwindling they still seem to be available in the northeast.
For those that didn’t see last night: C’mon, let’s save democracy! Yes We Can!
Signed!
Woke science leads to collapsing bridges, vaccines that don’t work, and theories that are easily discredited by the nonwoke. Don’t worry, this will all work itself out, just try to not get killed in the process.
Villains
Tens of trillions of global investment dollars are pouring into companies touting robust environmental, social and governance credentials. Now short-sellers spy an opportunity.
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Investments defined as “sustainable” account for more than a quarter of all assets under management globally, according to the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance. About $31 trillion has been invested, buoyed by analyst reports that show companies with strong ESG narratives outperform their peers.
Some short-sellers, including Carson Block of Muddy Waters, Josh Strauss of Appleseed Capital and Chad Slater of Morphic Asset Management, argue share prices can be bolstered by corporate misrepresentation about sustainability, or so-called “greenwashing”.
“Greenwashing is absolutely rampant now,” says Slater, whose fund bets on both rising and falling share prices. If companies fail to engage with long-term investors, he sees a red flag.
“From the short side, it’s quite interesting.”
Analytics companies that provide corporate ESG ratings use a combination of company disclosures, news sources and qualitative analysis of third-party data. They are a major source of information for investors, but it is not an exact science.
Hedge funds have various strategies for selecting targets, often focusing on those they think show both ESG and more traditional financial or operational weakness. A high ESG rating can attract short interest.
Short sellers, they’re the worst. Always calling bullshit on corporate pie-in-the-sky schemes.
Don’t worry, President Warren will ban short selling. And tax all the profits away from going long. Then at last will we have
the worker’s paradisean America for everyone!!Isn’t there a commenter or libertarian who thinks short selling should be banned?
There would be ways around any attempt at banning it unless they really want to go full authoritarian.
I wasted a lot of time trying to think of ways to encourage long-term thinking in corporations, but always came up with a workaround almost as soon as I’d had an idea.
Sure, why not. Also get rid of options. And so nobody speculates in futures let’s make sure that you have to take physical delivery.
Why even let people buy stocks it’s all very derivative.
No.
That isn’t to say there aren’t people who call themselves such who are for banning shorting.
Smells like their definition is bullshit.
Is Saudi Aramco ‘sustainable’ because they reuse their oil barrels or something?
“A high ESG rating can attract short interest.”
Funniest and most telling thing I will read today
ESG funds generally underperform their category benchmarks. The push is try to get enough of them to create an ESG variant benchmark.
Aside from Millennials they are attractive to religious organizations as well.
I’d never invest in one, but I don’t have an issue with their creation. Problem there is currently a bit of land grab in how to create one and what organizations get to give them their stamp of approval. For example, is it OK to having Boeing in your portfolio? They make airliners, but also do lots of defense work. Some screens would permit this and other preclude it.
Just watch “The Big Short”. The signs for the real estate collapse were all there, but only a few people looked at the data and not the brochures. Even after extremely questionable, and at times illegal, tactics of the banking, regulatory and ratings industries- economic reality broke through. The “shorts” were correct and made their money.
Don’t worry, this will all work itself out, just try to not get killed in the process.
Take the stairs, not the elevator.
War on COPS!
Starbucks is apologizing after a California sheriff’s office said two of their deputies were ignored in a store.
“Two of our deputies were refused service at Starbucks,” Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said on Twitter. “The anti police culture repeatedly displayed by Starbucks employees must end.”
The sheriff’s department said on Twitter Friday it was aware of the “cop with no coffee” incident that took place Thursday night.
Starbucks spokesman Reggie Borges told CNN the deputies were ignored for nearly five minutes — and there’s no excuse for that.
OMG those precious delicate lambywambies. It will require years of counseling and disability leave to restore their self esteem.
Those whiny bitches, the cops I mean, need to be fired. If you think you were targeted for nonservice don’t go back there or maybe lodge a complaint but otherwise keep your mouth shut like a normal person.
Nah man. If they complain then the cheif of police gets to come in and swing his dick around making sure his men get the respect they deserve from the common rabble
“““The anti police culture repeatedly displayed by Starbucks employees must end.””
The correct response to this should have been: procedures we’re followed, the employees feared for their lives. The important thing is that every barista makes it home safe.
LOL.
You forgot totality of circs
Ahh yes. I inker knew I missed one.
Perfect. Right on the money.
You mean they were treated like any other customer?
I guess they don’t go to Denny’s. Everyone gets ignored there. 5 minutes? Whatya think this, some sorta fast food. Hahahaha
Isn’t there a commenter or libertarian who thinks short selling should be banned?
The goofball from Overstock, who identifies as some subspecies of libertarian, has been waging a PR war against short sellers for years.
Ahhh yeah. Did some sort of crypto scheme to cut them out.
If you want to protect your company from the shorts don’t go public. If you want to encourage long term thinking end estate taxes. Privately held, owner run companies have fewer incentives to short term thinking, and are not vulnerable to short sellers.
Last month, the police chief in Kiefer, Oklahoma, said one of his officers picked up a coffee order from a local Starbucks that had the word “PIG” printed on the label.
That’s just a harmless little time saving acronym. It’s P I G, for Person In Government. Sheesh.
Lighten up, Francis.
Or as Obama called it, “Jew coop”.
Isn’t that in Park Slope?
https://www.foodcoop.com/
Ive been there!
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/25/the-grocery-store-where-produce-meets-politics
Enjoy! There are mandatory work requirements. So naturally some of the more equal members tried to hire folks to do their mandatory annual 3 hour or shift and it created an uproar and several articles about the issue.
A woman I used to date lived up the street from there.
“It is against one of the Co-op’s many rules for the shopper to have the walker do the pushing; that’s the shopper’s responsibility. It is also against the rules to drag a walker beyond the Co-op’s strict walking bounds,”
This is what life with strong unions looks like.
My hippie friend used to “work” there. I just rolled my eyes at him.
Park Slope Co-OP is fully aboard the BDS ship of tools. They made a big show, a few years ago, of getting rid of any product made in Israel. When I worked at a nearby hardware store, my adorable little FTM tranny manager was constantly trying to get to join. Fuck that! This is NYC; there are supermarkets everywhere.
Didn’t the Beach Boys have a song about that?
sup’ shamikhin
Just chillin’ How ’boutchoo?
(Ummm…what’s a shamikhin? Is it good? If it isn’t, please don’t tell me.)
shamikhin
I still say it wasn’t mispronunciation by Obama, it was a slip up revealing the secret government zombie army!
*Chews Tinfoil, Adjusts Headgear*
How dare you malign the brave corpsemen of the Secret Zombie Army?!
Would a sedan built in Israel be a Jew Coupe ?
No because a sedan is a 4 door car, while a coupe only has 2.
If someone steals the back doors off a sedan, does it make a convertable coupe?
The new season of The Expanse is out. I watched about five minutes of “Previously, on The Expanse…” and found myself saying, “Wait- I don’t remember any of that stuff,” so off to re-watch season 3.
I had forgotten how obnoxious that pudgy “badass Martian Marine GRRRRL” was. Also, the sanctimonious lesbo speech writer. STFU, you tiresome pious twat.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ffrankieadams/status/1093644295104385024/photo/1
Would.
And that’s a Hard Would. Extreme prejudice.
I’m not saying wouldn’t, she has a nice body, but that face?
I think she’s cute. But I like the apple cheeked.
I’ve watched S03 twice already and I still bet I will have to watch it again before (if/when) S04 is released in some format I can accept. The season was pretty busy.
Tuba Skinny is the awesome. I could watch Shaye Cohn all day long.
They’re pretty cool. Didn’t know about them – but I’ve been listening to a bunch of what they have on youtube while perusing these here comments tonight.
Someone please explain how this is not institutional racism?
Uh… hm… Not sure how to square this circle.
Wait… so when they said fewer than 1% applied under the economic conditions, they really meant no one?
That ship sailed decades ago.
“Someone please explain how this is not institutional racism?”
I think science and logic dictate that racism only works in one direction. Only white people are racist and all white people are racist.
Does that clear things up?
https://reason.com/2019/12/11/an-lgbt-discrimination-compromise-bill-is-proposed-in-an-uncompromising-culture/
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Several Republican lawmakers have introduced a compromise bill that would provide gay and transgender people federal discrimination protections while still preserving some ability for religious organizations and nonprofits to seek exemptions.”
So the compromise is : you have to get your religious beleifs veted by the government or else be liable for being sued.
Here’s my compromise – We restore the right to free association, and abolish all “Protected classes” and all torts for ‘discrimination’. You have to right to associate or not associate with anyone for any reason whatsoever.
Oh geeze. The comments get hihntastic fast.
I know this place can be a bit of a bubble, but if the alternative is having to accept hihn, then that is fine.
What, you don’t miss having a frothing turd in the commentariat punch bowl every weekend?
I can’t remember who first put forth this theory at TOS, maybe mexican sharpshooter, but they said that the real Hihn completely lost his mind a few years before the exodus and Nikki secretly took over his account to troll everyone even harder than Hihn. Who knows….
STOP WITH THE VERBAL VIOLENCE, BULLY!?!?!?!
Someone explain Hihn to me, please. I could never tell what he went on about and couldn’t figure out his opinion on anything.
Something you have in common with everyone else, including Hihn.
That clears things up. Thank you.
He’s either a very successful troll (most likely, imo), or a mentally deranged person. Most of his comments seem to be anti -conservative in nature rather than having any particular foundation in libertarian thought, afaict.
I only have a long-lost, vague recollection of him – but it was something like the base definition of bat-shyte crazy.
My favorite all time exchange with him was when he called me a fanatical right-wing goober for being pro-choice for the wrong reasons.
I’m upset I never made his list.
#metoo
Yeah, that was disappointing. It was quite a long list but I didn’t make the cut.
Yeah. If one is too not write him off as a troll, and I am so inclined, he has a strong anti-right-libertarian bent. The paulistas have ruined libertarianism. This article is further evidence because it is granting a privilege to the religious (he ignores that its protecting a right that everyone should have).
I don’t think he’s a troll. Trolls are different. I think he is mentally unstable, and probably never has his kids visit at the old folks home.
I once got him to admit he was wrong, which makes me discount him as a troll and think of him as human. Somebody else (IRL I think) had to point out the error but he did own up to it. I went easier on him after that, but he eventually would start accusing people of stalking him and bullying him. This guy would insult anybody he didn’t like and always had to get the last word. Even if he wasn’t a troll, he was projecting all of his faults on everyone else.
Hihn has been libertarianing harder and longer than any living human and, so, is The One True Libertarian.
Just ask him.
Wow, sounds likes cosmotopia.
Fucking republicans.
Yup, right until a democrat is at the reins of power and questions the sincerity of your religious beliefs and puts you through the legal ringer.
Bureaucrats.
They do now and always have run everything.
Ever since someone wanted to not bother making all the little decisions.
I’m sure that’ll be a good part of it, but they know when best to strike to make their careers advance.
‘for some reason’ heh.
Probably because some ‘atheist’ orgs are really just anti-christian/religious.
“questions the sincerity of your religious beliefs and puts you through the legal ringer”
Look, the founders didn’t mean to protect your false religious beliefs. They couldn’t have forseen Congress flouting plainly written constitutional clauses and the courts going along with if, so clearly your bad faith attempt at circumventing the law by faking a religious beliefs is not protected.
One last thing just hit me.
How is this a compromise? The conservatives/religious give up something, and they get back…?
Literally nothing. These ‘loopholes’ will be nothing more than something to be closed at the first opportunity by leftists on the next ‘compromise’ they make with republicans.
This is the Republican party the Democrats want back.
Remember, for congressional (R)’s, compromise is dinner and a rubber before bending over.
From the other woker science article:
…and more institutionalized racism.
My mom bought half a small pig yesterday (I was considering writing a post on the Romania pig tradition at christmas) and I just made some ribs, 1 hour in the oven at 140 degrees, just salt peeper and thyme. While I get some more complex rib rubs/sauces/flavorings, this very simple way works really well for me, simple fresh stuff.
goes well with some Stonewine Feteasca Naagra 2011
*Neagra
…please
Rosemary for pork.
Which half?
the left one I think
I like to make ribs with those spices + sage, very tasty.
You gonna pickle some pigsfeet?
no the feet go towards headcheese and aspic
Ribs here day before yesterday. My Kumquat bushes are loaded with the most beautiful fruit so I picked a gallon or so of them (probably 100lbs left on the bushes) and cooked them down. I added honey, lots of brown sugar, some garlic, vinegar and a couple of splashes of Worcestershire sauce.
Near the end of grilling the ribs I basted them down and let that sauce turn into a glaze. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. Yum.
Your name was taken in vain last night as we marveled at how good a $6 Feteasca Neagra was drinking. And I was totally unfamiliar with this variety until you told us about it.
So. this occurred to me as soon as I said to myself, “PG&E needs to go Galt”: Wouldn’t CA just enact legislation to keep the leadership from leaving and shutting down the company? I can’t think of any scenario that would allow PG&E to shut down.
It’s not as if they can pull up all the power poles and roll the wires up and take them to Nevada.
Newsome will make them an offer they can’t refuse. And then the geniuses at Bloomberg and the MSNBC Business Channel will scratch their chins and wonder why all the utility stocks crashed.
Naw, I mean, just packing up their offices en masse and going to play golf forever, walking away from it leaving it to crash and burn.
A lot of the line workers won’t.
A company can’t survive indefinitely with only the peons working. Who’s signing the paychecks?
It means the main carcass will still be there when Commiefornia nationalizes it.
The people paying for electricity duh. And if will be cheaper without having to pay those do nothing execs
Twitter, where even the UFC is political.
“I’m with you. I’m sad that this administration brings this feeling out in me, but I do enjoy seeing racists get pounded into mush.”
It’s Trump’s fault I’m hateful!
Yeah, I noticed that trending.
Funny the difference in reaction between this and Colin Kaepernick. Principals, not principles.
Hi everyone !
Tired and hungover
Is it at least the side effect of a good time instead of something sad?
Yeah, silly late night texting with a dear friend
Go bears . (Hic)
Hi!
Hair of the dog, perhaps?
Yeah there is cheap champagne in the fridge so perhaps mimosas.
In my drunken insomnia I made half a dozen deviled eggs, knowing I’d be hungry when I got back up.
—>high functioning
Ooh! Organized are we? I’m on board with that.
I’m up late because I’m home for a weekend between projects. Just got back from Shanghai yesterday afternoon and on a flight to Sapporo tomorrow. Good to see my boys but also nice to be needed in a way that pays well.
Glad to hear you made it out of China safe.
Thanx – China is definitely a vibe of its own. I can hack it and actually perform well there. But I would probably turn it down if they weren’t paying so well.
Best of luck and happy trails!
Much appreciated. These are really short projects – probably the best for me in that they require some tech knowledge + industry background + language + organization on the fly. Pretty much my forte. Nice that it puts me in nice digs with meals covered.
Pickle Juice FTW
I thought we were going to stomp the steelers today, but I didn’t realize they had that good of a record.
I also didn’t realize that the game will be on super late. Fucking west coast.
Whoah there. You want to fuck the west coast ? I haven’t even sent my address to you!
Figured I’d just start in San Diego and work my way up until I got everybody.
Alright alright . Let me brush my hair and put on my Fuck Me boots…
It’s a challenge. You have to fuck the commie out of all of them. We’ll do one of those Viking funerals for you, proclaiming you a great hero.
Straight outta Norsemen
*widens eyes*
So,…wanna be pen pals? Ha!
Mebbe..
Im in!
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/427/900/bcc.gif
lol
Flatterers !
SP is authorized to give you my email, in the event you need a safe repository for any……”boudoir photos”.
Just wait until she’s a little sauced and feeling frisky late one evening. Some of those shortlived pics were…revealing.
penis pals
Is that what they are calling dick pics nowadays?
I think that’s when gay dudes mail each other hand-written erotic poems about crossing swords or something.
“Speaking of Baltimore…”
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Not sure if this one has made the rounds yet, but…
ALL BEHOLD THE HORROR OF THE WARRENSANDERS!
So, this dude is a parody account, right?
Robert Riech
If he is parody, he’s the best damn Troll ever.
One whopper after another. Do better, The Guardian.
They’re preparing for their new career at Burger King.
“What motivates people most is a candidate who stands for average people and against power and privilege”
Except for the part about average people RR sounds like Newsome (Cali). He’s against power, too
same as the old boss.
Literally.
White people, amirite?
Well, the Chiefs play at noon. We have church at 1:00 through 3:00 (come on, schedule change!). Instead of just staying home, Mr. Mojeaux will surreptitiously watch the game on his phone all the way through it.
You’re snowed in! Yeah, God will buy that.
Alas, not so much.
Mojeaux’s hubby finds religion
You’re brilliant!
I knew what it was before I even clicked.
There is a mist excellent and probably illegal app for phones called “Pro Radio.” Plays all nfl games live radio broadcasts and has a very up to date scoreboard as well.
In the App Store it looks like a white helmet against a green field, with wireless signals emitting from the helmet.
He uses Yahoo Sports and doesn’t use sound.
There’s a little German Christmas market they have going on here and they have mugs of German beer. We’re heading down there in a couple hours or so. Not sure what is wrong with me this morning, I feel terrible and only had a few beers last night and woke up feeling awful. In comparison, Friday night I drank quite a few beers and woke up feeling great yesterday morning. Too less beer? Ugh…
That sounds like a lot of fun. Ein Bier, bitte.
Good morning, Old Man!
And a good morning to all of you liberty-lovers!
Annoying science lynx – I’ll make sure and share them with my daughter. She is becoming quite the little shitlord and those should make fire shoot from her eyes!
But to follow those with Tuba Skinny (which I will also share with Spawn 2) was inspired.
I forgot to commemorate a major anniversary yesterday, one of my favorite albums turned 40!
Not too shabby.
I hope each and every one of you has a flawless day!
Go Vikes!
Top of the mornin’ to ya, Tundra!
Not to quibble, but “shitlady,” if you please. (Or perhaps }}shitlady{{?) I’d like to make that a thing.
Always happy to see your cheerful self!
The etymology of “lord” is that it comes from the Old English for “loaf-keeper”.
If you’ve bought bread, you’re a lord.
No, it’s not if you’ve bought bread, but if you control the oven,
You know who else controlled the ovens?
The Sous Chef?
Betty Crocker?
Sara Lee?
The Melvins? https://youtu.be/PuNv-1teUSA
Maytag Man?
The current Maytag Man was great on Eureka.
Ovens. Short, sweet, jangly, stupid. https://youtu.be/snTyvx7SNQw
The Oh Sees: Peanut Butter Oven https://youtu.be/Avdo1enZRQ4
Ron Popeil?
The Cavves: Coven in My Oven https://youtu.be/DDMHUeDr_eo
Half Man Half Biscuit: Joy Division Oven Gloves https://youtu.be/Dc3eQpmnRbg
Lachowsky?
That sounds a bit moldy and stale.
Not buying your day-old explanation
I guess that depends on how you slice it
At yeast he had an explanation.
We certainly don’t knead more puns.
Fine work! Let’s hear it for HE! *raises glass in toast*
Mmm.. toast.
Slathered up in Kerrygold butter
No pun, just loving Kerrygold
Irish butter!? NY Cheese!? Why come you glibs no support my state’s cronyism!?
Interesting! What’s the etymology of “lady”? Not that I couldn’t look it up myself, but I respect your expertise much more than what I might stumble across on the Internet at large.
My high school had a one-semester Etymology class taught by the Latin teacher, so mostly Greek and Latin root words. It was one of my favorites, and I like to think it helped me on the Verbal portion of the SAT.
Huh.
etymology of “lady”
Look I will not sit idly by while you denigrate females. I know your handle is Gender Traitor, but why would you think it is funny to think that female titles come from the study of bugs? That sort of hate has no place on a family friendly site.
Well, they DO call them “ladybugs” and not “lordbugs,” right? (Gratuitous link to my favorite graphic artist, who was fond of the motif.)
Me, I’m more of a loaf pincher.
Booo!!! that joke stinks.
Bought? I imagine the term came from the guy that took all o the bread at the point of a sword and was then. in charge of rationing it out to goodthinkers, i.e. the ones that bowed down properly. So really, the meaning hasn’t changed one whit.
Ah, noted. “Shitlady” it is!
Shitlord, shitlady, shitlX. I don’t care exactly what you people end up on as long as we keep being our humble selves. I will brook no bragging or boasting. And I better not hear a peep about shit supremacy!
I just go by Whore. Saves time
{{shitlady}}
Okay, now you’re just trying to get HM to link a video.
Wha? HM is German? Not sure I’m following…
I just assume there’s a dark vault of videos he keeps in reserve to torment his enemies and arouse perverts, er, Germans.
{{shitlady}}
Forgot the comma and question mark
How is this a compromise? The conservatives/religious give up something, and they get back…?
Compromise, surrender, what’s the diff?
Stop being such a quibbler. Next time, the conservatives will get everything they want. Pinky swears.
We have to reach across the aisle and get things done for the American people. Things they really want, like higher taxes and less freedom. We’re passing out free vaseline. /your betters
Next TIme:
Thos aren’t conservatives. They are just Nazis
Ah yes, just vote to raise taxes, and then we’ll definitely get what we want!
Apparently, my local NBC affiliate is have technical difficulties. No Chuckie Todd, today. How will I know what to think?
Go to DU, they’ll get you on the right thinking path.
We’ll tell you.
*sigh*
In order to do what I currently do, I had to study things like combinatorics and Fourier analysis. I never thought that made me a quantum physicist, so why do so many others think they are linguists? This call for language sanitation through euphemism reeks of a simplistic understanding of the relationship between language and thought. I think even George Lakoff would find this risible.
I think even George Lakoff would find this risible.
You know who didn’t find something wisible
I didn’t expect that.
Elmer Fudd?
Don’t worry, I’m sure these people are taking over linguistics, too.
This call for language sanitation through euphemism reeks of a simplistic understanding of the relationship between language and thought.
Call it an “ancillary sanitation unit” if you want. Your outhouse still smells like shit when you open the door.
The Funny things is this creates a dominant strategy for racists. They just have to adopt the new terms for themselves and then everyone esle will have to start changing their language again. For example: if the White supremacists start calling themselves White Advantage proponents, then We’ll have to stop using terms like Comparative Advantage, Quantum Advantage, etc.
You mean how 4chan is trolling right now?
well… Yeah.
Question for the group: any of you use a tablet to take handwritten notes? Do you like it? iPad or Surface or…?
No, I’d spend more time arguing with the electronics than either taking notes ore paying attention. Paper or keyboard.
Yes, Surface. It took a bit of getting used to, but I like it.
This is the “pen” I use
My laptop is convertible, so it has a touch screen. It’s great for scrolling because I hate touchpads, but I can’t stand writing on screens. It just doesn’t work for me. Paper, not plastic.
I’ve made multiple attempts and I always default back to paper/pen.
The greatest tech advancement in this area is the ability to take a pic of the whiteboard with your cell phone before it gets erased.
^^^^^
I gave it up and just type notes into One Note.
The etymology of “lord” is that it comes from the Old English for “loaf-keeper”.
If you’ve bought bread, you’re a lord.
No, no, no. You’ve got it all wrong.
A Lord is a loafer, as in loafing parasite who lives on the stolen labor of his serfs.
Seems legit.
Hopefully Jarflax won’t mind my sharing this with you folks:
I think we need 2 more yet.
Have I told you guys how much I hate Elf on the Shelf??
https://imgur.com/a/XS3dKm5
Just waterboarding?
You know, I never knew about that until I was in my late 20s or early 30s. I was like, WTF is this and why is it cool and/or fun?
I find it disturbing.
Yeah, it’s more than a little creepy.
You think that’s creepy?
STAB STAB STAB
I only heard of it when Mensch on a Bench was on Shark Tank.
Oh I am in tears of laughter .
That is rich!
The problem with Elf on a shelf is not that it is creepy, the mischievous elf is the fun part. It is that after a year or two you find yourself at midnight walking around the house with no more creative ideas, yet not wanting to disappoint the little ones. This is how you end up with a Christmas tree redecorated in underwear.
*picturing tree covered in tighty whities*
Um…
Boxers Ma’am, boxers.
At least he didn’t raid the temple garments.
You mean the Rat on the Mantle? I don’t like his chances in the Naptown household. Honestly, it is creepy as hell. I sort of get the inspiration behind it, but it’s still real gross. I don’t want my kids making moral choices based on being observed by a voodoo fetish that’s going to narc on them come the holiday season. I’m working on establishing a healthy combination of awe and paranoia in my daughter about how I just happen to know everything she’s done that she thinks she kept secret, and that’s enough. I’m not going to outsource that shit to a lanky doll.
Besides, in my household, it goes like this: God => Me ~ Mme. Naptown => The Pets => Les Enfants Naptown. And, frankly, my response time is much better than Jesus’s. Holiday decorations and fairy tales don’t rank.
Amen to that.
Actual Christianity emphasizes the fact that men will never be good enough to “earn” heaven. For all have fallen short of the Glory of God.
The whole point is that you can’t earn heaven with good works; you are granted eternal life through grace alone, earned by Christ, freely given if you embrace it.
(Yeah yeah, I know it’s superstitious to a bunch of you, but that’s what Christians believe)
That’s why the Bible includes the story of the thief being crucified next to Jesus. The thief proclaims his belief in Jesus, and Jesus says he’ll see him in heaven.
Important because obviously the thief/criminal didn’t have a chance to do “good works” and earn heaven.
Fuck elf on the shelf and Santa and the NSA
Yeah, that’s it exactly if I’m being serious. In my house we do one or two things from Santa but we’re upfront about the presents being from us. So yeah, if you’re behaving like a little shit we’re not going to buy you gifts. That has nothing to do with God or why you should try to be a good person or anything else. That’s a totally separate equation. In other words, I’m uncomfortable injecting the metaphysical or supernatural or spiritual aspects of moral behavior into gift-giving holiday traditions and silly dolls. My parental spy network is entirely mundane and understood to be so by all parties. The only supernatural agency in my house you’ve got to worry about trying to impress is God, and that shit’s between you and Him.
Nice job
I kinda did something I’m not proud of and very proud of at the same time.
XX was being an entitled little shit (6? 7?) as she had been for some weeks, and I said I wasn’t going to get her X thing. She screamed at me, “Santa will!”
“THERE IS NO SANTA! I AM SANTA!”
The look on her face was at once heartbreaking and schadelicious.
She was really too young for that. I probably should’ve held my tongue. On the other hand, it felt GOOOOOD.
Our compromise position has been that Santa kind of exists but he’s not really that big a deal. Sure, there’s a Santa, but he’s really only good for maybe one or two decent gifts. Real, actual people spend their own money to buy you the good stuff, so that’s who you want to impress. So, when I tell you that if you don’t pick your toys up I’m giving your presents to the dogs to chew on, Santa’s not gonna be able to help you.
It has nothing to do with making the kids think they are being spied on to get them to behave. It is a cute thing you move around each night to make funny tableaux. The little ones get excited wanting to see what hijinx the elf got upto overnight. Y’all are way to serious about this!
My mom put up the nativity crèche every year, minus the baby Jesus figure.
Every day, she moved a beautiful gold origami star a few inches from West to East in the house, until finally on Christmas morning, the star was over the Crèche and baby Jesus was in the manger
I like this one.
We kids actually ran faster to look at the nativity scene on Christmas morning than we ran to the stockings!
Kids love tradition and predictability
That’s pretty cool
Ah, well I see Jarflax is an NSA bot.
A) I didn’t know it existed until I was way into adulthood so it’s creepy.
B) I don’t have that kind of imagination. My kids have an advent do-hickey.
We do an Advent calendar. It’s a wooden one, and each day either has a piece of candy or a hint to something hidden around the house, usually a small gift or like a Snickers or something.
The dogs usually handle the humorous tableaux, if your sense of humor runs to upended trash cans and the frying pan you didn’t bother cleaning last night finding it’s way onto the couch.
Good choice with Tuba Skinny, OMWC. They came up to Milwaukee a few years ago to play at Best Place, a small bar located in the old Pabst Brewery complex. They’re a lot of fun — hearing them makes me want to go swing dancing again.
Happy Sunday, all.
Double-T, we are thinking of having a Glibs meetup soon. Since you are a n00b, we don’t have your email. Drop me a line pope @ jimbo.church and I’ll make sure you get an invite.
Done.
I’d like to give a shout out to Fourscore this morning. He let me escape his compound yesterday after a nice chat. Drinking a cup of coffee with him yesterday was the ray of sunshine for Saturday.
After leaving him, I went and met some buddies for an attempt to ice fish. Lots of equipment failure and no fish.
Isn’t that the point? Go hang out with other dudes in snowmobiled suits, drinking and secretly hoping nobody actually catches a fish?
You have to catch fish. How else would you know who has the biggest dick? It is a well known scientific fact that the person who catches the biggest fish has the longest dick and the person who catches the most fish has the fattest dick.
Speaking of catching fish, let me know the next time you’re passing by to go fishing this spring. I’ll let you buy me a beer.
You’re supposed to claim you caught fish. Then, you drove home in your 700 hp truck.
I think Greta just had a stroke.
I’m sure I’ll end up against the wall.
Hey you need that 700 hp because when you drive it until the smoke cloud over the hood gets too thick for you to see the road the hp gradually decrease. You get a good 150,000 miles on the last 4 cylinders on a good coal burner!
The other nun couldn’t reach that far.
Jimbo is a better hunter than I am, dropped off pheasants (I’m guessing hens that he was concerned about) and stole some of Mrs Jimbo’s creations from the refrig. The Fourscores are happy campers. Traveling with the Pope is first class.
*kneels to kiss the Pope’s ring*
*grabs HE with ringless hands*
*gently explains that only Mrs. Pope can kiss the ring*
Lol.
Skol Vikings!
So I have created another Diplomacy game.
Glib Diplomats 2
invite code: SMITH
Just a reminder, while the game shows as starting in 7 days, the game actually starts when all 7 spots fill. 1 day per phase. Join if you want.
I lowered the reliability to 50%, so if you have ever played on the site and haven’t just abandoned games you should be able to join. If you have never played you may need to play a game against bots to be able to join. The bots will beat you, because they are evil and gang up.
Is Biffer playing?
Not yet.
All right I’m in but if Biffer sneaks into the seventh slot Imma be pissed.
I’m still trying to figure out if BMF is Pie.
Have I told you guys how much I hate Elf on the Shelf??
Nice.
I’m waiting for the “hacked elf on the shelf” porn video panic. I’m sure it’s coming.
Elf on the shelf is a metaphor for the NSA. It’s pointy ears perk up when it hears the word “woodchipper.”
From that Robert Reich link:
This is where Warren and Sanders come in.
Their core proposals would make the system work for everyone and alter the power structure in America: Medicare for All based on a single-payer rather than private for-profit corporate insurance; a Green New Deal to create millions of good jobs fighting climate change; free public higher education; universal childcare.
All financed mainly by a tax on the super-rich.
They’d also get big money out of politics and rescue democracy from the corporate and Wall Street elites who now control it.
I used to think there should be some sort of basic economics requirement for college students, but what would be the point? It would be like making them take a physics class about the racism and inequitable distribution of gravitational attraction.
“If you drop a piano and an anvil off the Leaning Tower of Pisa, which one will achieve justice?”
Comey on Fox. This is a riot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yfXxeJn3Tc
It’s incredibly hard to get (2%) of the fisa warrants. You gotta do some adjusting of the facts to sneak them in (the meager 98% that go through.)
*Blank look* “I’m not sure what you’re saying.”
Need a bath after just watching that interview.
He said that it’s very hard to get a fisa warrant and they did a good job applying for them, other than the minor errors noted in the IG report. It’s widely reported that 98% of fisa applications are rubber stamped. They didn’t even need to lie to get them, it was just gravy on top.
I was imitating Comey. And yes, that is a good point. His whole shtick in that interview is simply, “Oh yeah, we really fucked up. Still wasn’t intentional and we’re good people. Wray will fix it. To be sure.”
Something, something, COINTELPRO, something, Dr. King had it coming.
Only two things stand in their way of becoming president.
The first is the power structure itself, which is trying to persuade Democrats that they should put up a milquetoast moderate instead.
The second is the possibility that as the primary season heats up, supporters of Warren and Sanders will wage war on each other, taking both of them down.
It’s true that only one of them can be the nominee. But if the backers of both Sanders and Warren come together behind one of them, they’ll have the votes to take the White House and even flip the Senate.
President Warren Sanders can then start clearing the wreckage left by Trump, and make America decent again.
Uh huh. Robert Reich, head of the Federal Reserve Bank, will know just how to effect this miraculous turnaround.
‘The first is the power structure itself, which is trying to persuade Democrats that they should put up a milquetoast moderate instead.’
Yes, please put your head in the sand and ignore what just happened across the pond. Please.
In fairness, this is true of the GOP. Romney was intended to allay fears of rightwinged extremism and how’d that work out?
Hmm, I’m not disagreeing, but I can’t really remember who were considered the craziest right wingers at the time. Herman Cain? Who else?
Derek Carr looks like he’s always wearing eyeliner.
*sticks out tongue at Hyperion*
His eyes are dreamy.
And although Adam Vinatieri is my favorite player, I have to confess to dreaming about Jeff Saturday having some pretty intense sex with me.
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/427/900/bcc.gif
Wait, Jeff Saturday? That’s random.
I mean, come on
https://images.app.goo.gl/NfH6bPPUKP6R84PM7
He does have that kind looking teddy bear thing going on, I guess.
Sadly for me, I’m boxer-skinny, and his beard puts mine to shame.
*sigh*
The Carrs are part of this clan from Wichita Falls that up and escaped Texas to California en masse. All the men look the same to me; I can’t prove that they’re different people.
“*sticks out tongue at Hyperion*”
Well, the thing about Carr is, my opinion, is that he’s a good QB who is now gun shy. He’s afraid of getting hurt, so defenses don’t have to worry about him seeing an open field and masking a run for it.
Nope! No rational discussion, good sir. He’s a crybaby who wears eyeliner. He’s Tammy Faye Bakker.
Ah,….I’m stoned.
Fourscore: Did you see the ND/MN Honor Flight organization is now encouraging Vietnam vets to apply?
Thanks, MikeS. I still can’t shake the anger. Its not PTSD, just the bitterness towards those that caused the memorials/museums to be built. I won’t be applying.
We celebrate together, we cry alone…
I completely understand (as much as I am able to, I guess). I just wanted to be sure you knew about it.
Last week, Seattle and King County leaders hired transgender stripper Beyoncé Black St. James to perform at their annual conference on solving homelessness. Here’s how they’re using taxpayer money:
The one and only time I went to a strip club it was a male revue. I made my bestie sit on the sidelines, but she didn’t mind because at the time, she was very shy.
I was uncomfortable and getting angrier by the minute. I don’t actually know why. But the old women hopping up and down and screaming and waving cash in the air were gross. Finally, a couple of the dudes came over by us and one reached out. I jerked away from him and hissed, “Don’t touch me!”
After a while, bestie got up and hesitantly went to the stage and hesitantly stuck a one in the guy’s g-string (that was cute), and then we high-tailed it out of there.
Just get me to an outdoors jazz and blues concert, let me sprawl out on a blanket, listening to the music and looking at the stars, and I’m good.
Otherwise, I’m not a very good date.
I’m a dude and that’s not far from how I feel about strippers. I can, and have, hung out with them. I can be involved in the process, but I do not enjoy being a customer. I spent a year in dressing rooms of strip clubs across the country and I can tell you, strippers don’t much like their customers as people, at least mostly.
Me too. Went to a few clubs as a young Marine thinking it was going to be a blast – left feeling disgusted.
My buddy refers to the aftermath, smelling of perfume and covered in glitter, as the “moral hangover”.
It was worse than going to a casino. I have different feelings about casinos, but almost as bad. It’s loud, bright, jangly, disorienting. I see the rows upon rows of slot machines and old women sitting there pushing buttons and I can just feel the despair. It seeps into my pores and makes me oogy.
Now, I will go to the “boats” to the movie theater there, but it’s nowhere near the gambling. The restaurants are also not near the gambling, so okay.
But the casino itself? Mr. Mojeaux took me once when we were first married.
Once.
Yeah, I’m with you. Wife and I went to see some Greyhound races at a casino in a long weekend out of town. Very impoverished area. Was pretty sad, we didn’t stay very long.
Y’all going after strip bars and casinos…I can’t even. What the hell happened to my America?
Expressing displeasure and some amount of disapproval.
Libertarians are allowed to be displeased and disapproving of other people’s activities, aren’t we?
Sure. The fact that they exist means that liberty exists even though I haven’t been to either in decades.
Yeah I go to Wheeling Island once a year (for a music festival but we hit the dog track/casino on the way in.) The “casinos will be a boon to the local economy” theory doesn’t seem to have worked there, what a shithole.
That’s where we were. Did win $98 on a $2 perfecta on the second race:)
Most casinos don’t draw customers from very far. They pull money out of the locals. They don’t put most of that back into the local economy and it tends to be spent far away.
Casino overload.
They pull money out of the locals.
You said a ton: Once the rent is gone, the stealing starts. Car break-ins skyrocket. 20 year veterans started stealing at work after the casinos opened.
I love liberty, but I don’t know hardly anyone who is equipped to be good at it.
I’m the same way, albeit at female strip clubs. I can’t get into it. Granted, I’ve been accused of being a prude in the past, but I just think it’s kinda sad and gross and lame. It’s transactional in a way that I find belittling to me, like I’m more pathetic for the experience. As if I can’t get a woman to take her clothes off without the promise of cash.
Really, strippers should be paying me.
But seriously, it’s fine for people who dig that sort of thing, I just find it sleazy in a vaguely 70s, “sexual freedom means having no standards of behavior”, “key party” type of way. No offense to people who are into that stuff.
I’m totally okay with people doing stuff.
There are some things I don’t want to hang around to see them do.
Lesbian stripper night at the local gay bar was the only time I’d been there. It was a blast. We were on herbage and were really mellow so they let us stay. The ladies were quite aggressive on both sides. Chatted up some of the ladies and they were cool with us being there. “If you were a chick, I’d fuck you.” Maybe the best compliment I’ve ever been given.
Couldn’t you be a chick, just for one night? See if you liked it? You could always have the morning regrets, claim you don’t remember, drunk, raped? Something, c’mon, its only for 1 night and whose to know?