Spud really showed us how its done this morning. Unfortunately, they won’t fire me and I can’t quit, so you gets what you gets, which is good enough.
You know what I hate worse than the 6% realtor’s commission that’s right where you can read it in every contract that you sign when you hire an agent? The idea of a class action lawsuit by Big Tobacco lawyers where they can rape the real estate agents, take 70% (or more) and give people who signed a contract without any sort of duress a pittance. There are several flat-fee sellers agents out there, and if buyers want to use zillow or realestate.com and just hire a lawyer to read a contract for a flat-fee, more power to them all. Hell, you can do it all yourself if you have the time.
A great take on the college admissions scandal by an Ivy League school. (Note: Parody Site)
Another psychedelic being studied for depression and anxiety treatment. Its almost like people don’t take this stuff purely to piss off the DEA
Florida woman chases her man across highway with knife at 3:45am. Pasco county is like the Appalachia of Florida, only without the scenery.
Good news, folks! Fusion power is only 15-20 years away with new materials.
Found the original of something I always assumed was a cover.
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I cant get my VA doc to even discuss CBD oil, let alone some psychedelics
While Im here, just go ahead and HIT IT
The VA’s unofficial motto? https://youtu.be/hlk7o5T56iw
That was a quick fix on the missing music link 😉
I know, usually you guys get a chance to beat me up about it.
I was about to, then, just in case, I refreshed so I didn’t look like a nutter.
I think you meant, “…so I didn’t look like a nutter this time.”
Well, yeah…but you really didn’t have to call me out like that!
Fusion power has been “only 15-20 years away!” for as long as I’ve known about it (20+ years) and I suspect it will stay that way.
I remember the big stink back circa 1989 when a couple of researchers (from University of Utah I think) had supposedly created cold fusion.
Pons & Fleischmann (sp?).
Yeah for a short while there, the world was giddy with the idea of room-temperature nuclear fusion. I remember The Economist had a cover story (and a cover) that was sunny optimism about the potential.
Then it all came crashing down. :-/
It really is a shame that they called it cold fusion because there does seem to be something going on with their experimental setup that cannot be explained with any currently known physics and it could very well prove valuable as a new energy source but the taint left on the research by the leap to the cold fusion claim has basically made it impossible to get any reliable research into the phenomenon on either an experimental or theoretical basis.
Yep. As they say, it’s the power source of the future, and always will be.
I had a summer internship at the Department of Energy in the late ’80s. The goal was to have fusion by 2000.
“One of the unique properties of 5-MeO-DMT is the fast action and short duration of the psychedelic effects when compared to other psychedelics. “Research has shown that psychedelics given alongside psychotherapy help people with depression and anxiety. However, psychedelic sessions usually require 7 – 8 hours per session because psychedelics typically have a long duration of action,” says Alan K. Davis, Ph.D., a postdoctoral research fellow in the Behavioral Research Unit, at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “Because 5-MeO-DMT is short-acting and lasts approximately 30-90 minutes, it could be much easier to use as an adjunct to therapy because current therapies usually involve a 60 – 90 minute session.””
Regular DMT is much shorter-acting.
My wife suffers from anxiety. I wonder if therapies like these will ever actually be prescribed?
The War On Drugs has been holding medicine back for a long time.
This is of fairly little consequence compared with other drug war victims (those suffering with severe pain, mental illness, etc.) but… I wish there were some kind of safe, non-addictive stimulant that only lasted an hour or two. Sometimes I just need to stay up for a little bit longer to finish something up, but I don’t want to ruin my whole night’s sleep by drinking coffee. Maybe such a thing could be devised without the nanny state bullshit around life-enhancing chemicals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bEUaeG4wH4
The idea of a class action lawsuit by Big Tobacco lawyers
I read this as lawyers working for Small Tobacco were behind the suit; it’s actually lawyers for Big Government who sued Small Tobacco doing the suing.
While I have some of the former Big Tobacco plaintiff’s lawyers working for me on a case, I didn’t see any names I recognized.
Make New Zealand safe again
On Monday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she had ordered an inquiry into whether government agencies could have prevented the attack.
“The purpose of this inquiry is to look at what all relevant agencies knew — or could or should have known — about the individual and his activities, including his access to weapons,” she said at a news conference in Wellington, the capital.
She also said her cabinet had agreed “in principle” to an overhaul of the country’s gun laws and was working out the details.
“Within 10 days of this horrific act of terrorism, we will have announced reforms that I believe will have made our community safer,” Ms. Ardern said.
Better that 999 people lose their rights and freedom, than one lunatic get through the dragnet.
100% safety is our goal, and we don’t care who we trample in pursuit of it.
People need to have their guns taken away, for safety. Your guns, that is. Not the guns their personal protection details have. Those are different.
What did Ben Franklin say again about trading freedoms for the illusion of security?
It’s an awesome idea?
Pretty sure old Ben would have his mind boggled by a country led by a pregnant unmarried crazy woman.
I mentioned earlier the police response time was 36 minutes. That sort of response time spawns conspiracy theories.
They were only conspiring to get home safe.
I’d be curious to see what their average response time is. I’d bet $10 that’s 36 minutes is normal.
Ranges 4 to 9 minutes in the United States.
But what is it in New Zealand? Do Kiwi cops even carry guns, or do they have to stop at the armory first for a call like this?
Best I can find.
The target response time for Priority One incidents is 10 minutes. But statistics show police are only meeting this 62 percent of the time in urban areas – and just 41 percent of the time for rural events.
“since 2012, frontline vehicles have had a locked box in the passenger foot-well containing a loaded and holstered Glock 17, and in the rear of the vehicle, there is at least one Bushmaster rifle secured in a case together with ballistic vests.”
So they have no excuses.
Pictured: Calling the cops in New Zealand.
it was 36 minutes to arrest him.
it was 6 minutes until armed units were at the mosque to take witness statements. the massacre lasted about 5 minutes.
When seconds count, the cops are minutes away.
If I were a NZ MP, I would introduce an amendment to the new gun-control bill that would expand any new restrictions to the security officers protecting the PM and her cabinet.
“If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom. ”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
100% safety is our goal, and we don’t care who we
trampleassault, cage, and/or kill in pursuit of it.“Wykel was arrested for domestic aggravated assault and taken to the Land O’ Lakes Detention Center where she was turned into butter.”
“Woman accused of shoplifting, masturbating in front of teen on way to jail
TAMPA (WFLA) – A Dunedin woman is behind bars after deputies say she attempted to steal from a beauty supply store and then while being transported to the Pinellas County jail masturbated in front of a teen.
Deputies say Tami Lynn Bonefield, 45, attempted to steal two items under $10 from a Silky Beauty Supply in Dunedin.
When Bonefield was confronted by an employee for attempting to steal the items Bonefield punched them in the head and body and then proceeded to kick another victim.
Authorities say she denied stealing anything, but the items were found with her and returned to the store.
On the way to the jail, Bonefield was transported with a 16-year-old boy who she proceeded to masturbate in front of. The child was separated from her by a metal partition. Bonefield made multiple sexual comments as well as exposed her breasts and genitals to the boy.
Bonefield has been charged with Lewd and Lascivious Exhibition, Simple Battery, Petit Theft, and Resisting a Merchant,”
https://www.wfla.com/news/pinellas-county/woman-accused-of-shoplifting-masturbating-in-front-of-teen-on-way-to-jail/1860996490
Tami Lynn Bonefield
What if the kid was turned on by it?
He was probably on the same drugs she was.
Well, it is Florida Kid….
He was 16 years old. He probably complained about the partition.
With a name like Bonefield, it’s got to be good!
Wood, but only in the circumstance that I was on my way to jail.
Take another look at the photo. You may want to retract that statement.
Why was the teen on his way to jail?
Also, why are there no newspaper editors?
Her name isn’t Tami, it’sBlacksheep Trouble SquarePants
“Petit Theft”
The cutest of all thievery.
I thought that was stealing those little toast points?
Still cute!
I’m not going to live long enough to see fusion power am I. Guess I will have to settle for Gen IV fission reactors.
You won’t see those either.
But take heart! You’ll see PLENTY of very stupid bullshit
Like this?
https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/de-icing-wind-turbine.jpg
That looks energy-efficient.
And I bet chemical de-icer is awesome for the environment.
Absol-UTE-ly!
Dogs love to slurp that stuff up and then die of liver failure.
Energy of the past and the future.
Does one of those things even produce enough value to pay for a single helicopter ride in its lifetime?
Only if the helicopter ride is from a Pinochet Airlines helicopter.
Most people make the mistake that renewable energy is about energy production. It’s not. It’s about govt subsidies.
You guys kill me.
I like you. I’ll kill you last.
Is that an order?
Fusion reaction, always the bridesmaid, never the bride.
10 years ago it was only 10 years away. At this rate, in 15 years, it will be only 20 years away. Progress!
It’s on the same timeline as American Soccer.
Regarding the blog now with regulated comments: As a daily reader for more than a decade, I am really disappointed that she is doing this. She’s a great read and all, but her idea to moderate comments sucks.
It’s so boring now. I left a comment calling her a Luddite for sticking with Blogger (another commenter asked about easy linking and I basically said Blogger is shit) on the megathread about moderation and it was deleted.
So only women will dominate fusion power?
+1 Cooking sausages in Snatch
My favorite class action lawsuits are the ones where the attorneys rake in a fortune and the harmed class receives rebate coupons for future purchases of the product that was crappy enough to merit a class action lawsuit.
Those are the lawyers favorite kind too!
Is there any other kind?
I got a notice that $15 is on the way from Vizio if I go to a website and show proof I purchased a Vizio TV between certain dates. I’d spent more than $15 worth of time just looking for a receipt.
My favorite class action lawsuits? Those in which the lawyers don’t complain about billing and promptly pay our invoices.
Krugabe decides to do his own “Rednecks in the Mist” article:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/opinion/rural-america-economic-decline.amp.html
Gee, what a genius. The elite class Krugabe is a member of wrecks the economy in a way that profits them causing the economic decline Krugabe wants to lay at the feet of the unwashed masses, all because they don’t know better than to shut their fucking mouths and do what their betters tell them regardless of how they are getting shafted. The sad thing is that our elite class is just painfully ineffective, inefficient, and downright idiotic, able to only deliver mediocrity if not failure, while demanding the perks of a meritocracy. Fuck them.
TOP. MEN.
Nobody except about half the country, who are pretty sure that doing the exact opposite of what you advocate would lead to a surge in economic growth.
Are you saying that an Alien Invasion would not spur economic growth?
+1 Trillion dollar coin
I’m sure that some rural readers will be angered by everything I’ve just said, seeing it as typical big-city condescension.
Go fuck yourself. And I don’t want to see 20 fucking Democrats tromping around farm fields for the next 2 years telling us how they’re going to fix us.
That’s the fun part of the intersectional left. The new woke Democrats won’t be able to pull off the duck hunting and plowed fields PR shot. Their contempt for self reliance is too palpable.
H/T Suthen
**Starts to hand AOC a shotgun, hesitates**
I’m sorry ma’am, I just can’t allow you to handle this gun, I don’t have a good feeling about it.
Alternate version:
AOC blasts Brett, screams “I’m in charge here!!!!” Then looks down at shotgun and quietly mutters…”these are kinda fun, I might be woke enough to enjoy one of these responsibly”
“Oh, I’m sorry, you believe in disarming private citizens. Better not have you holding this shotgun and giving the erroneous impression that you care about that particular civil right guaranteed in the constitution that you apparently haven’t read or comprehended.”
” AOC, the Handicapper General, came into the studio with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun.”
Given it’s a shotgun, but how accurate do we think AOC is?
I suspect a 10 gauge would knock that girl on her ass at the first shot.
“I’ve got another gun you can handle, though.”
Nope. Pass. Next thing you know, she’s got her pogue boyfriend a security clearance and they’ve got your NSA file so she can go full Glenn Close on you.
Boiled bunny ain’t bad. Rabbit stew.
Memories of Dukakis in a tank…
We can’t help rural America without understanding that the role it used to play in our nation is being undermined by powerful economic forces that nobody knows how to stop.
Regulation driving manufacturing overseas . . . . Environmental laws driving up fuel costs . . . . Subsidies making it better to turn corn in to fuel instead of food . . . .
Hmm, there must be some common denominator involved here. I wonder what it could be.
Russian interference?
That must be it. I keep reading about that all the time.
Let’s not excuse the avarice of unions now.
I remember watching unions drive meat-packers completely out of business in the early 80s.
So yes, unions are a big problem. Of course, unions wouldn’t have as much power to destroy businesses without FedGov backing them.
Or state government. Some of the shit I’ve heard about California.
Right. States can make things even worse.
It’s all true.
Everyone is beating up Trump for taking on the Lordstown union boss, but his point was BMW and Honda, et al are making cars in the US without a ton of issues.
Are you implying that Government Motors is inefficient? I remember listening to the “Buy American” crap in the 80s and being mildly contemptuous. These days anyone buying a GM product has my open hostility, the Obama ‘negotiated’ GM deal was a blatant violation of the 5th Amendment, if you do business with GM you are climbing in bed with thieves.
Brand new (just over 2,000 km on the odometer) Chevy flat-out died while sitting at a red light when I was on vacation. Had that stupid start-stop “feature” and never restarted. What a piece of shit.
The unionized workers drove themselves out of business (e.g. Hormel, Local P9 strike, 1985-1986). They’ve been replaced with Somali and Central American immigrants.
One more, kinnath:
Estate taxes forcing family farms and businesses to be broken up and sold.
I bet none will suggest “Kill the farm bill, especially corn subsidies.”
I tried to explain to someone once that if FedGov legalized weed, in 10 years, Iowa farmers would produce so much weed the price would crash, then FedGov would have to subsidize it.
Corn subsidies are killing barley production. Which drives up the price of beer.
Yup. Corn subsidies and ethanol subsidies fuck up a lot of things. Food prices around the globe on staples are up because soccer moms burn gasohol in their cross-over SUVs.
We’re all burning gasohol, not just the soccer moms.
Man I hate that stuff.
I can still get premium without ethanol. So the Z doesn’t burn gasohol.
But, yeah, all the other vehicles have to burn that shit.
It’s fairly easy to get here, too. All my small (or old) engines get the good stuff. I don’t worry so much about the modern stuff.
Not to defend the ethanol scam, but all the commodities are really, really cheap right now and likely to stay that way, they can grow enough corn for both without adding a dime to your bacon cost. Bankruptcies on the way up all over, there is nobody on the production end making any money even with cheap corn. Processors and retailers are another matter.
It’s hell on small engines. Nevermind, the EPA regs on 2-strokes that are ruining them as well.
Part of the reason I bought a diesel truck was to avoid ethanol.
Yeah, but you probably got DEF in exchange.
Don’t get me started on modern diesels.
*starts cursing under breath*
True, I did get DEF in exchange. But I have to fill that tank about once every 6 months, so it’s not so bad.
We’re gonna need more ethanol to fuel a football team size Expedition that is the rage now. How ironic, as a ‘few’ like small cars for the mileage many of us would prefer a BIG SUV and Ford is willing to participate in our quest. Ford isn’t complaining about the price either. CAFE standards can just go to hell. Take that Tesla and shove it!
I can still get premium without ethanol.
I haven’t seen it here in Tucson. What brand has it?
Part of the reason I bought a diesel truck was to avoid ethanol.
Only in your fuel, I hope.
Bring that before the Supreme Court. You’ll get at least one vote.
+Lots of boofing.
So, “you hicks ought to smarten up like us urban sophisticates and realize that Orange Man Bad for you”… Hard to interpret that as anything other than condescension.
“…voting against their own interests…” is on page 1 of the official talking points.
Yeah, everything tells us that Orange Man is particularly bad for the rural and working classes except the employment numbers and the wage numbers.
“Big-city condescension” implies that people who live in cities are in a position to condescend. I don’t think people who live in the country would see it that way. Mostly, in my experience, it’s the opposite if anything.
I’m reminded of the first episode of Connections where James Burke walks through the collapse of postmodern civilization because a blackout turns off NYC and nobody knows how to grow food.
Yes, all those “hordes of 3rd world immigrants” would have no idea about agriculture.
Oh, he wasn’t disparaging them, just the city dwellers who would probably starve in the first couple of months.
Except plenty of them are growing food there. Puerto Ricans converting kitchen cabinets into chicken coops is a cliche.
The food wouldn’t be the problem, it’s the water. Lose power and the water systems will run dry in a few days. Then you have millions of people who need water (and sewer) in a concrete jungle.
I’m not certain of the caloric yield from a kitchen cabinet chicken coop.
Now if they were also raising guinea pigs on their floor, that would be another matter, but you said Puerto Ricans.
Yeah, water’s an issue. The FedGov here in Canada started talking about disaster prep for households a lot more seriously around a decade ago, and they recommended a 72-hour supply of fresh water (and other stuff, of course) be kept on hand.
Screw that. After finding out that local and regional governments in the Lower Mainland have absolutely no coherent, appropriately-scaled plans to deal with the aftermath of a megathrust earthquake, the spousal unit and I sat down and tried to suss out how much water we’d need for just cooking and drinking for two weeks, and then we bought said amount and stored it. Now I’m thinking it might be months before clean water could be available in sufficient quantities from an outside agency of any kind.
We’re thinking of leaving the Lower Mainland and going back to Alberta.
You and your water supply are on the same side of the fault. Me? Not so much.
I’m firmly on the Pacific Plate.
Except plenty of them are growing food there.
I’m betting the percentage or city dwellers growing food is solidly in the single digits.
Brawndo is what plants crave.
our political system gives hugely disproportionate weight to less populous states, which are also generally states with relatively rural populations.
Weight? As in the basic compromises that made our Federal Republic possible? So these stupid rednecks have some means of resisting mob-rule of city folk? Horrors!
I’m old enough to remember history teachers talking about the Great Compromise in glowing terms.
#Metoo, but I went to rural schools with redneck teachers.
So these stupid rednecks have some means of resisting mob-rule of city folk?
Only until the smart city folk figure out how to amend (or scrap) the Constitution.
One side got the numbers, the other got the guns and the food. Seems pretty balanced to me.
This chart showing how Clinton would win the electoral college and become president shows about the same number of low population Red and Blue states, so perhaps they can stop fucking bitching about that.
And by “would win”, I mean possibly could have won if she hadn’t been running up the popular vote in states like CA so she could allow my wife to keep on talking about how Clinton was the actual winner of the election, reinforcing my view that leftists are fucking out of touch with reality about politics.
When this first came up, I went through the Senators from the five smallest states. I think the breakdown was 6 Repubs and 4 Dems. For the five biggest, I think it was 6 Dems and and 4 Repubs.
He should do a show with Bill Maher no one will watch.
Posted this on the previous thread, so figured I would bring it here now that this is going on:
Talk about false advertising! I see this thing about a bikini fight during spring break street brawl and figure it is like Q delivering the goods, but then I go watch and it is this shit. They should have put more warnings about people that watch this ended up feeling abused after having to watch fugly skanks smacking each other stupid.
I figured it would be like a nudist colony. The people who go out naked are not the ones you want to see naked.
I know I almost lost my lunch, and likely will not be doing dinner unless I wait 8 hrs.
Wow. I smell Pulitzer. Throwing haymakers for several minutes straight makes for some good cardio, too.
Someone’s weave been busted.
What is known is that Mr. Tarrant was a licensed gun owner and member of the Bruce Rifle Club. He appeared to already have shooting skills when he joined in February 2018 and he typically went to the range by himself, said Mr. Williams, the club’s vice president.
The club has come under criticism from a former member of the New Zealand military named Pete Breidahl, who said he reported it to the police in 2017 after visiting in November that year. He said he had had concerns about the mental stability of the members and the way they handled firearms.
“They wore camo around the range, like they were living some military base fantasy,” Mr. Breidahl said in an interview on Monday.
Mr. Breidahl said that he had been in contact with the police after the Christchurch shootings and that he was scheduled to meet with them on Tuesday.
“See? I knowed sumpthin warnt raht!”
There’s always one.
“They wore camo around the range, like they were living some military base fantasy,” Mr. Breidahl said in an interview on Monday.
Cops do that all the time, don’t they?
But they’re trained professionals!
Camo around the range? Shit, where I live you’re likely to see camo worn around the house, to the Walmart, bars, and certain weddings.
Hey, Walmart and weddings aren’t mutually exclusive! Don’t ask how I know…
Or on the job.
Well obviously if you wear steel toed boots to work.
I’m partial to the following version of the posted song, because it involves Gary Numan riding around in a weird little vehicle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iX3b3XtYMc
And Urgh! A Music War is a great film in general.
“‘Damn socialism, why are you chasing me?’ Chinese-Americans see ghost of communism in Democrats’ leftward turn”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/damn-socialism-why-are-you-chasing-me-chinese-americans-see-ghost-of-communism-in-democrats-leftward-turn
#Chexit
Guess I will have to settle for Gen IV fission reactors.
Don’t you mean, “That thing where you spin a stick with a length of string in a vain attempt to make fire”?
We’re not socialists yet. And I hope we don’t end up that way as the one time I tried to start a fire with a bow drill and expert instruction was a complete failure on my part. Not easy at all.
FYI, I am in on the free Glib NCAA bracket that Don Escaped Texas set up. I see 15 entries so far… Is yours one of them?
what’s the user/pw?
Thepasswordistaco
And the ID?
Sorry, I was being a smartass – no idea
Motherfu….
It’s what you set it as. The log in is for your cbs account not to access the Glib bracket.
I believe that you can join the Glib bracket group with just a CBSSports.com account… If you don’t already have an account, then you can register here.
Borked the link… register here.
Done. Where do I go find the bracket?
‘I’m cheating on my BF (but it’s not cheating)’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGqERrWR6N0
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1107962837975134208
Listen… I don’t think you should give that chick your real name or address. I’m not judging here, but…
I do enjoy how the likes of Cosmo endevour to normalize horrible human behavior, infidelity, callous indifference, and whatever the opposite if empathy is, as long as you are a woman.
And then cry “where muh knight in shining armor at?!”
“Where are all the good men?”
With good women?
Having to remind people that Penn is an Ivy League is so very…Penn.
Colgate would like a word.
Better than Crest.
Do you mean Cornell…?
I almost went to Cornell!
Is this the right place to talk about Rob O’Rourke trying to trick his wife into taking a bite of baby shit by putting it in a bowl and telling her it was an avocado?
Question: would Suthen have to at least think about which one he’d less rather eat?
Apparently he’d just seen “The Help”, and was pissed at his wife for something.
He seems like the kind of guy we want as President. Who wouldn’t try to trick his wife into eating shit? That’s just funny, right?
Similarly, do guys really dutch oven their significant others?
It’s an occasional threat but I’ve yet to actually do so.
Hell yes! You know you’ve found a good woman when she’s delighted to dutch oven you.
That doesn’t sound like the kind of woman I am into.
Firing counter-battery.
I knew one who did. That was a long time ago, the dude was 20 or 21.
I dutch oven anyone I can.
What about upper decking them?
Verdant Turd — band name, right?
Suthen seems like a good old boy but I have to wonder about people who don’t like avacados. They’re the food of the gods.
It’s like butter and dip but technically a vegetable. There is no upper limit on the number of avocados I would eat in a sitting.
“Cain’t no one eat 50 in a hour!”
How about baby turds?
Avocados are greasy snotballs.
+10 Guacamole. With cilantro.
And now we know…
Why did Florida Woman cross the road?
To see what bitch he was talking to on his phone!
“i didnt fuck my cat. i didnt cum on my cat. i didnt put my dick anywhere near my cat. Ive never done anything weird with my cats. I promised myself i wasnt going to make apology videos after last years thing so im just trying to be as short and honest with this as possible.”
https://twitter.com/tashalej/status/1107495931895644161
I have confirmed with my kids that they follow this guy and think he is awesome for some reason, but as of yesterday they had not heard of any untoward behavior with a cat. I had to be very careful how that conversation went.
I still have no idea who he is. I just wanted to post a cosplayer with huge boobs in case JB or Q show up.
*suddenly much more interested in the Count’s link*
Yeah, the Glibs who are into the thiccness should peruse that young lady’s twitter photos.
Wood.
Found the original of something I always assumed was a cover.
About 35 years ago, I was driving from PA to MN and while listening to a Gary Numan tape, encountered a van that had just crashed on the Interstate. The van was on it’s side (later learned the driver had fallen asleep), there was smoke rising from the wrckage and the windshield was gone. There were people strewn all over the pavement, some of whom were clearly dead. We didn’t stop because we where heading in the opposite direction and there were people fast approaching the scene. We did pull off at the next exit and told the toll booth guy what we had just seen. Ever since then, I’ve never been able to listen to Gary Numan.
You need 5-methocy-N,-N-dimethyltryptamine
Too short for a PA to MN drive.
Not if you drive fast enough.
I was outside Boise on the interstate in the wee hours of the morning and watched a pickup truck impact a dude on a motorcycle going about 70 mph. I didn’t stop because I’d have had to do an aggressive 2 lane change to get to the shoulder and then I’d have been a motorist wandering around the highway in the dark with no lights or reflective material. Still, there is something deeply unsettling in watching someone die and continuing on your way.
Was that pickup truck a maroon F350? If so, I know who did it…
F250. And I sold it three years ago.
Something you need to tell us?
I had no problem dealing with the aftermath, but the couple of serious accidents I witnessed left a mark.
Florida Man™ in action.
What do you think he was charged with…?
Batter-y.
Boo!
Is the corporate press just insular propaganda?
Exhibit A: “CNN’s Parkland Town Hall has been honored with a @CronkiteAward. Congrats to @jaketapper and team who helped “advance the national conversation on gun control and violence.” @LearCenter”
https://twitter.com/CNNPR/status/1108055639165755393
Is that the one where Dana Loesch (sp?) almost got lynched? They lost control of the situation and shouldn’t get awarded shit.
advance the national conversation on gun control and violence.
You mean create propaganda for gun grabbers.
Holy shit I wouldn’t want an award named after that fuckstick.
“Self congratulatory media engages in circle jerk”
News at 11
“Winners include reporters, anchors and producers working at CNN, MSNBC/NBC News and PBS/ProPublica”
Move along; no insular propaganda in sight.
Lear? As in Norman Lear? Wasn’t he pretty much nothing but propaganda.
But he created Archie Bunker, one of the most beloved anti-liberals of all time.
Because you were supposed to not like him…
Ha. Backfired. You’re a dummy, Lear!!
Robust, borderline THICC, and clearly stupid.
Wood.
what’s up with that tooth though?
I can’t stop lookin’ at it.
It shows she’s not vain.
Im more focused on mid-torso down.
Oh, the fun I would talk her into having.
The story could have ended with “a 25-year-old teacher” and we all would have known what happened.
A happy 17 year old, who was later sorry he bragged to his friends?
She seems nice. Bonus points for “memaw”. People always look at me funny when I refer to my grandmother that way.
So your real name is Sheldon Cooper?
No, Elizabeth Warren.
This is a news story?
Unfortunately, they won’t fire me and I can’t quit, so you gets what you gets, which is good enough.
Why would anyone fire someone who does adequate work for free? Sounds to me like TPTB are being good capitalists.
If fusion power becomes a reality, is there any rational reason I can’t get my incandescent bulbs back?
Menard’s had a bunch last time I was there.
FYTW,
oh you said rational.
Government? Rational? HA HA HA HA HA!!
“Artist creates 2-acre ‘Beto 2020’ crop circle in Texas”
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/434683-beto-2020-crop-circle-emerges-in-texas
I’m not saying it was aliens
You think a native Texan did that? I have it on good authority that aliens do all the crop work.
Don’t blame me — I voted for Kodos.
FAKE.
The@BetoORourkeportraitis made of sand, mulch, clay, rocks and pecan shells.And full of shit.
Why do you philistines hate academia so much???
That’s right – noted idiot Lauren Duca teaches a class at prestigious NYU. $60K a year well spent.
Here is the front page of the syllabus. It’s very impressive stuff.
The Feminist Journalist. So just outright admitting they no longer even give lip service to the idea of viewpoint neutral reporting.
So today I’ve learned that Bernie Sanders has (a) an economic adviser who once wrote about Hugo Chavez’s “economic miracle” in Venezuela, (b) a campaign staffer who echoed Ilhan Omar’s “all about the Benjamins” comment, and (c) a Senate staffer that echoed Omar’s “dual alleigances” slur.
I’m guessing all of that makes him more popular with the Dem base, not less.
“(c) a Senate staffer that echoed Omar’s “dual alleigances” slur.”
This one is really disheartening.
I saw that Rahm Emanuel wrote an Atlantic article explaining why that slur was so offensive to him. Since the 90’s people have claimed that Emanuel fought for the Israeli Defense Forces and had dual loyalty. I distinctly remember hearing this charge over and over again when he was running for Rostenkowski’s old seat.
If such a charge was leveled against any other ethnic or racial group people would rightly call it bigoted (in fact everyone did when Trump accused a judge of being biased against him because his parents were Mexican). I don’t know why we pretend like it’s different when you’re talking about Jews. Fucked up
I take it you’ve read Pat Buchanan’s “Ok, but Omar has a point” Op-Ed.
But of course Pat said that.
If you think Buchanan is the only one who has been arguing that then you should probably reacquaint yourself with a large chunk of libertarians (both cosmo and yokel).
I remember when Ron Paul was called an antisemite for questioning actual American policy toward Israel. It blows my mind that some people think “dual loyalty” is a policy position, because it most assuredly is not.
I’m well acquainted, thank you.
The tenor of Buchanan’s latest was more “ethnic” than “ideological”.
“The tenor of Buchanan’s latest was more “ethnic” than “ideological”.”
I think that’s your perception. But, even so, (and as I’ve stated, I am not defending Buchanan or anyone who makes the “dual loyalty” charge”) at least Buchanan can make the argument that he generally disfavors American foreign policy. The same cannot be said for Omar who famously accused Jeff Sessions of being a Russian asset for not being anti-Trump enough.
The idea of supporting a non-interventionist foreign policy has just been whittled down to opposing American policy toward Israel and Saudi Arabia. And that’s a shame.
https://reason.com/blog/2019/01/17/rep-ilhan-omar-recklessly-accuses-lindse
I meant, she accused “Lindsey Graham” of being a Russian asset
Dude, the title of the article was “Is Diversity a Root Cause of Dual Loyalty?”
I agree.
If you read the article, his piece is actually slightly tamer than this one: “Dual Loyalty and Israel”.
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/dual-loyalty-and-israel/
Regardless, it’s not a competition if both premises are wrong.
Yeah, it definitely does suck. Now, I’m going to ask a heartless, cynical question – why shouldn’t they?
Is it going to cost them any votes? Will Jewish donors flock to punish the Democrats by donating to Republicans? The Democrats all but spit in the face of the American Jewish community. And the American Jewish community will still, for the most part, reliably support the Democrats. So, anti-Semitism is popular with the progressive kids. Why buck the trend?
At some point, people will switch allegiances, oftentimes en masse, if they perceive they’re being treated badly enough.
African-Americans used to be a solidly Republican demographic. Mormons used to be solidly Democratic.
Eh, that’s what the Democrats thought about Black folk, and I can tell you that #Blexit is a thing. As I said before, based on the rumblings I’ve heard from my local, fellow MOTs, if they continue to pussyfoot around Omar and Tlaib’s antics, then #Jexit will be just as assured.
Is it #Jexit or #Jexodus?
Honestly, I hope you’re right. It’s never a healthy thing to have tribal loyalty to a single party system. Over time, that party takes you for granted and the other party gives up on trying.
Now that you’ve introduced me to #Jexdous, I shall write nothing else.
Same. You did not disappoint with the link, either, as that was instantly what started playing in my head.
#Jexodus, huh? So every couple of elections Jewish ex-Dems complain about something in the Republican party and bitch about being dragged out into the wilderness until God pulls a “don’t make me stop this car” and gives a bunch of them hives?
Is there another country where American citizens would go and serve in its military force? That’s a highly unusual behavior.
Though, I know one exception. A hydroplane pilot in Alaska told me that he had served in the Norwegian military and because Norway was (and is) a NATO member he didn’t have to serve in the US military. I assumed he was avoiding the draft during the Vietnam war.
If the IRA ever had a foreign legion, 50% of Boston would be empty.
Might be an improvement.
Might?
That’s Not OK!
It’s interesting that you note the IRA, because there is a fair comparison to be made that the past financial support of Americans toward the IRA is not entirely different from Palestinian American support for Hamas.
I wholeheartedly agree.
And fuck Peter King.
And fuck Peter King.
With a studded mace.
Hard pass
It goes beyond Peter King and Boston. The US government looked the other way while Americans were funding the IRA. I believe somewhere around 80% of their funding was from America.
It’s hard to dispute that there is a significant difference in how the US government handled Americans fundraising for a group that terrorized one of our closes allies versus how the US government treats Americans that donate to groups like Hamas.
Obviously this discrepancy largely has to do with the substantially larger Irish-American population to the small Palestinian-American population. Nonetheless, it’s disturbing to consider in hindsight. And I say this as someone who grew-up near the Irish and was wholly familiar with this effort to support the IRA. It wasn’t covert at all.
I recall stopping at a bar on the way to Camden Yards in southwest Baltimore with some friends maybe ten years ago. It was an Irish bar, and when I say Irish, I mean there were Sinn Fein campaign posters and a donation jar for Gerry Adam’s election campaign. There was only Jameson’s.
So immigration then…
The Professional Irishman is much more interested in damning the Sassenach from a barstool while swilling Jameson’s than in getting shot at.
ISIS.
Australia for a time was actively recruiting civil engineers from the US Military into the Australian Army while I was in. I don’t know if there were any takers.
Here be a link, mate.
They’ve always been short of servicemembers – esp since sub bases are typically near mining towns, etc. One of the foreign exchange officers at my last active duty billets had retired (Navy Engineering officer) from the UK navy (20 years) and was about a year away from retiring from the Australian Navy after a second 20 year stint. Talk about a sweet pension gig.
He knew what he was talking about when it came to radar and weapon systems – I’ll give him that.
I’m surprised he doesn’t have some Sandinistas on staff.
They’re just not part of the PR packet.
And a campaign volunteer who attempted to assassinate a bunch of GOP Senators.
“Trump is a poor person’s ideal of a rich person, Beto is a rich person’s ideal of a poor person”
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1108056958857371655
The whole thread is awesome.
The side by side of Beto and Napoleon Dynamite is epic.
LOL
Also, his 25th consecutive gap year.
“I knew it. I fucking knew it. Patreon are splitting it into tiers and making their service WORSE for almost everyone. Sargon has the last laugh after all.”
https://twitter.com/LordScrump/status/1108111218525507585
“Patreon CEO says the company’s generous business model is not sustainable as it sees rapid growth”
https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1108119489500114945
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/23/crowd-funding-platform-patreon-announces-it-will-pay-out-half-a-billion-dollars-to-content-creators-in-2019.html
What’s the barrier to entry for a Patreon competitor? It seems way lower than, say, a YouTube competitor (massive bandwidth requirements).
It’s not terribly high — but the next level up (Stripe, Mastercard) can ruin you if they want to.
Security, fraud prevention, privacy, placating Visa and Mastercard. The thing is, Patreon’s model is “you save on fees this way”, and depends on people who don’t like you saving on fees.
Dave Rubin was muttering something about creating a new platform….six months ago? He and his “IDW” buddies left but far as I know they don’t have anything up yet. Jordan Peterson probably lost a lot of money while these guys are running into issues.
Also, look into Hatreon, Freestartr and SubscribeStar to see what can happen to a Patreon competitor.
Can’t remember the last time I read Peggy Noonan but this was a pretty good summary of what is going on with the Left.
Get Ready for the Struggle Session
I would not mind shooting a few of those brain-washed little Red bitches.
What’s stopping you?
He’s being sporting.
Huh. Not what I took away from that… but I guess the world is full of… um… differences.
Well Mao himself would have been preferable – but it wouldn’t have been him showing up at my office or house to drag me out for a struggle session.
Not a fan, but it’s always good to remind people that “it could happen here”.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-met-jussie-smollett-kim-foxx-kass-20190314-story.html
Pretty much exactly what many had speculated was happening (politicians and the police superintendent were trying to stop investigating the Smollett scam and that’s why police were leaking linking to the press) was indeed happening.
“It is an account of how Foxx was contacted in the Smollett case by a politically connected lawyer close to Chicago’s most prominent political families, the Obamas and Emanuels.
That lawyer, Tina Tchen, was chief of staff for former first lady Michelle Obama, and she is a friend of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s wife, Amy Rule. Tchen was apparently a go-between for someone in the Smollett family.
There was literally an “omg” moment in the texts, because Foxx did what was asked of her:
She lobbied Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson to drop the Smollett case and push it over to the FBI.”
It’s telling that they thought they could bury it under the auspices of the FBi.
I think they knew the FBI was going to just shrug. What were they going to investigate? I think it would be buried by the press who would assume the case was over once it was passed to them.
Did anyone use the postal service at any time during the commission of this crime? If so, you’re fucked.
/FBI
That’s the FBI. They’re ordering the others to cut the building’s power. Regular as clockwork.
Or a time lock.
Weird how McCain is suddenly a great man and war hero after Trump criticizes him. I could have sworn these same people were calling him a horrible, hot tempered, evil arch-conservative back in 2008.
He was just an ego-maniacal asshole.
And they were right back then. It’s really amazing how they’ve flipped on that.
Well, he was no arch-conservative. But the rest checks out.
Whichever one benefits Democrats and makes Republicans look bad…
One would think these people would notice that Trump won’t openly insult you on Twitter for several days, if you leave him out of it.
Have a steaming pile of mendacious claptrap about marihuana. Gather your friends and take a toke at every logical fallacy!
My response: Fuck off slaver, I decide what goes in my body. No one else gets a say.
The SMITHs beg to differ.
I don’t give a shit if the drug gives you an incredible high for 5 minutes and then your insides boil out of your eye sockets like a science fair volcano. If I wanna take it it’s my right, and fuck you for saying otherwise.
Fucking assholes. It helps my mother you mendacious cunts, when all your beloved “scientific research” didn’t.
These articles are becoming more common as CBD and THC are exploding. I’ve noticed a lot of hand wringing among both my proggies and socons.
Slavers gonna slave, I guess.
I was gifted a 30-day supply of CBD oil around the start of 2019, and started the 1st dose last night. My aim is as an anti-inflammatory, since I have jacked-up shoulders.
I’ll let Glibs know if I turn psychotic a la “reefer madness”.
If you turn psychotic, you won’t know it. What you need to do is let us know if you think we turn psychotic.
“I’m not psychotic, you’re psychotic!”
Or if you begin having illicit relations with “jazz players.”
Drug prohibition: making alliances between the lady who plans the church potluck and the college professor who plans the gendernormativity protests. We truly live in an amazing era.
You just knew those proggie fuckers were going to turn against it as soon as it started being legal.
Who would have thought that people that care about all of the legal substances we put into our bodies would think otherwise about marijuana?
2 long fallacious tokes: reefer really is addictive; it also causes TOXIC INSANITY!!!
At least the writer – whom I think is pretty spot-on when he stays within his wheelhouse of things like government spending – included a reference to Reefer Madness to dispel the notion that he was perpetrating Reefer Madness.
In the United Kingdom hierarchy of victimology, Muslims outrank the LGBT community.
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1108118777265340422
And Jews…
That’s not exactly a fair assessment of the dispute. But, yes, if it were another group opposing these mandatory lessons they would probably be attacked for it. Which is why Muslims must realize that the Left’s love affair with them is temporary and only exists so long as it’s advantageous. I think they know this already.
Pim Fortuyn figured it out two decades ago.
Not to mention anyone not-Muslim whose objections to a primary school offering irrelvant “My Two Dads” lesson plans were completely ignored.
Gays being thrown under the intersectionality is happening a lot faster than I thought.
Gays being thrown under the intersectionality is happening a lot faster than I thought.
What are they going to do, vote Conservative/Republican?
Well there used to be quite a few closeted (still) homosexuals in those parties at least among the upper class.
Yes, emphasis on “closeted”. The only acceptable party affiliation among gays is still, largely, Democrat (in this country – I imagine you can be non-Labour if you go even further left).
They’ll be taken for granted by the political parties of the left until that’s no longer true.
I would think that greater “acceptance” in society + the left slowly destroying itself will change this calculus in the near future.
Nah, there’s openly gay Tories for decades now. The upper class not-even-closeted gay cliche does have some basis in reality.
Glitter bomb attack!!!!!
Speaking of the IRA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bright#Opposition_to_Home_Rule
Arch-free trade anti-imperialist Victorian Liberal John Bright on why he opposed Irish Home Rule
Interesting that classical liberalism in part died thanks to Ireland and free trade.
The Irish were routinely abused by the British (including being purposely starved). Say what you will about the Northern Ireland IRA, but the original Michael Collins IRA was more than justified in what they did.
Are you talking about the famine? Today it is blamed on Laissez Faire Liberalism.
+1 Tim Egan. Dropped my jaw when he wrote about the British refusing the importation of American grains and then in the same breath cited this as an inditement of Laissez Faire capitalism.
Also the Fenians killed classical liberalism. Of the reasons that the Liberals split over Home Rule was that Hartington’s brother had been killed by Irish terrorists.
Also what about John Locke? He supported what was going on Ireland. Or the Bill of Rights of 1689? Even the right to own arms was supposed to be for Protestants only.
I thought “Wind that Shakes the Barely” was a good movie inspire of being obviously sympathetic to the socialist factions of the IRA. It really showed how once home rule was achieved the commies quickly mobilized to undermine the liberals.
Ken Loach has a sad.
That said Ireland was lucky that it was better off than almost all of the other post-colonial regimes despite even having a civil war.
Describing Ken Loach as “obviously sympathetic to socialis[m]” is putting it mildly/
Then there was the time the US looked the other way when the Fenians invaded Canada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ridgeway
So is New Zealand still a libertarianish country? Gun control, statist economics and censorship?
Eric Crampton at Offsetting Behaviour used to argue as much, but I haven’t followed him in recent years. I think after the Christchurch earthquake, he became somewhat disillusioned (to put it mildly) with all the suboptimal “solutions” to that ‘quake that were being adopted in NZ. Nevertheless, he’s still there. I should prolly spend a day or so plowing through his stuff again — I quite liked him way back when.
I don’t know how anyone could argue that. Apart from the things Winston quotes, there’s a massive welfare state that dates back to the early 20th century, widespread regulation, nanny state to rival anything in the US or most of Europe. It’s a beautiful country, with wonderful people but this idea that it’s some kind of quasi-libertarian state is bizarre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogernomics
Mind you the current PM is from the very same Labour party.
Yeah, I know. Same as the changes the Hawke-Keating Labour government did in Australia around the same time. But that’s a LONG way from being libertarian.
Cato and Reason have always had a thing for 1980-90s neoliberalism. It was supposed to be the end of history but history has continued. That’s one reason they hate Trump so much since NAFTA was supposed to be non-negotiable.
But Roger Douglas isnt, he has been with ACT since the early 90s.
https://www.cato.org/blog/unsung-economic-success-story-new-zealand
https://www.cato.org/blog/new-index-human-freedom-falls-more-countries-not
“So is New Zealand still a libertarianish country?”
Whut? It never was.
It was for a few months in the 80s after a botched snap election and a libertarian ended up as treasury minister.
So… you’re saying there was an actual libertarian moment??
https://theweek.com/articles/828943/are-libertarian-republicans-misreading-political-climate
It’s happening!
So to recap: the jackasses will ram through some expensive and ineffective legislation we’ll never get rid of, the GOP will pretend to give a shit about the budget and personal liberty to capture just enough votes to win back power, the GOP no longer needing to feign opposition will do nothing, jackasses will careen further left and ride back into power because of GOP voter disaffection, repeat ad nauseum.
I know that would be quite the libertarian moment. Like how New Zealand would always be libertopia.
Here, Charlie Brown, come kick this football.
“See how Google is helping Latino students learn how to code”
“Computer science requires students to learn how to think in a totally new way. Getting into that mindset can be really hard for anyone, but it can be even tougher if you’re learning key phrases, concepts, and acronyms in an environment that feels different from your everyday life.
That’s why I’m proud to share that Google.org is making a $5 million grant to UnidosUS, the YWCA and the Hispanic Heritage Foundation. The grant will bring computer science (CS) education to over one million Latino students and their families by 2022 with computer science curricula, including CS First, Google’s coding curriculum for elementary and middle school students. Additionally, it will support students’ experience with how they learn about computer science, helping them explore CS and offering culturally relevant resources to engage parents.”
https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-org/computer-science-lessons-spanish/
Isn’t that $5 per student?
They’d probably get better results by donating English lessons. If their English isn’t strong because they learned coding in Spanish, they’re going to be in for a rude awakening when they discover that English is a bit more crucial to success in it that “seeing yourself represented”.
Not only that, but almost every computer language is based on English, and most of the books, websites, IDE’s, etc are in English, with few exceptions:
https://www.oreilly.com/pub/pr/1188
Computer science requires students to learn how to think in a totally new way.
No. No it does not.
“How can I parlay my grievances into a career being woke at my employer?”
Probably get some economies of scale that aren’t determined on a per student cost basis, but your point is understood.
“In my latest report, we went inside one of Europe’s largest NGOs and recorded their organization admitting to laundering €500,000. Here’s the shocking investigation.”
https://twitter.com/Lauren_Southern/status/1108050270880034816
“UNDERCOVER: Exposing NGO Smugglers in Greece”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63xS4qDieKw
Titty Tuesday continues!
http://archive.is/R0iiP
39 for the win
13 has nice sweater puppies, too
“4Chan, 8Chan, ZeroHedge BLOCKED In Australia??!”
https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1108132334791020544
I keep hearing about Australia in regards to the mosque shooting, but isn’t New Zealand a completely separate country?
The shooting was in New Zealand. The shooter was an Aussie.
White-supremacist Australia is the bad place that produced the shooter. The Great Firewall of Australia will prevent anything similar from happening again.
Trying to come up with a clever play on words with “Great Barrier Reef” akin to Great Firewall of China…
This makes as much sense to me as the Vegas shooting. Why would an aussie go to NZ to pull this off? There are plenty of mosques in the land down under. Are NZ gun laws more lax than those of Austrailia’s? The guy was trying to change gun laws so what was the advantage to him of going to NZ?
Yeah, NZ gun laws were marginally more lax than in Australia.
For now.
Apparently, the NZ prime minister thinks that giving mass murderers exactly what they say they want will * discourage * further mass murderers.
It’s like they don’t have a clue how incentives work.
Late question for EF after her great article: What happens when you don’t have/know any lawyers in the immediate term? Do they give you access to a phone book or google or something? Or do I need to get someone on retainer or someone I “know” every time I move?
Thanks for asking it again. I had a similar question.
#metoo
Related question – is it still “one phone call” using their phone? Or will they give me back my own phone so I can pull up my lawyer’s number?
I rarely carry a phone, so if I was in that situation it wouldnt be an issue.
“You get one phone call” is a Hollywood myth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZMSef3WLlE
Plan ahead. Put a business card in your wallet.
https://www.richardfinklawoffices.com
That’s who’s card I keep.
*Whose
I once got in a spot of trouble in NYC. I can recommend Donald J. Birnbaum (((ESQ)))
What happens if you’re cross country or in another state? Call the same guy and ask for a referral or for them to contact someone on your behalf?
If that lawyer is sittin on your retainer ca$h, I would think they would be ethically bound to do something like that.
Well….never dealt with this. Never needed anything like that. If you haven’t paid a retainer because you never needed to contact one….
I mean, I guess once I settle down somewhere (for more than 3 years…buy a place, etc) – I’ll probably have more of a reason to retain someone if I expect to be in the area – but I’m 38 and I’ve thankfully never needed one but never really thought about it much either outside of stuff like this.
Maybe Ms. Flashman can put out an article with some more thoughts on this sort of thing for us ignorami…
Admittedly…being a servicemember – as long as I was active, I would probably call JAG first thing no matter what – but as a reservist, I only get “benefits” (including JAG as far as I can tell) when I’m on orders or drill weekends, etc.
AFAIK, “retainer” is for someone who needs semi-regular legal work. You can just have a guy whose business card you keep handy who you can call. If they’re not otherwise swamped they’ll take your business.
Excellent question and I have no idea.
Good discussion on the opioid epidemic – nice to hear some details/context behind all the garbage scare stories we’ve been seeing.
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/the-remnant-with-jonah-goldberg/episode-93-confronting-the-opioid-crisis/