Following some massively sweaty work, the yard is now clean of dogshit, which will last about an hour, as Wonder Dog realizes she has a black canvas on which to express her art. There’s a metaphor in there for my life. SP is arrived in New York, where she will reign terror on miscreants for the next week. I am feeling sated from dinner last night, which was delicious, but somewhat heavier than a uranium-tungsten alloy. So things could be worse.
Birthdays today are not quite as thick on the ground as yesterday’s, but still, there was a guy more logical than Spock; an Ur-cultural appropriator; a delightful woman who lives on in most of the folks here; a woman who inspired hundreds of sick jokes; the guy who taught Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason; one of the icons of my childhood; a guy who made Dana Carvey; a piece of shit lawyer and politician, but I repeat myself; and a guy who made films almost as banal as Steven Spielberg’s.
Let’s see what we can do to find some discussion-worthy links.
“It’s unbearable out there.” This is someone who should avoid coming here.
She gets 75% of the way there, then goes off the rails. For profit, of course.
2.6? And that’s news? I’ve had bigger bowel movements than that.
I’m trying to decide the appropriate trigger warning.
Old Guy Music is yet another band whose talent and creativity far outstrip their fame. This song is… massively delightful.
Anti-Semitism is one thing, but that picture engages in apostrophe abuse, which is unforgivable.
The apostrophe is now used to let you know an “s” is coming.
The apo’strophe i’s now u’sed to let you know an “s” i’s coming.
That’s a cat’ass’trophy!
Nice tie in to the sleeping bobcat story.
HOLD UP.
SP is in New York, yet we’ve managed to import UCS ?
What kind of trade is that ?
Like the Red Sox trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees for cash.
Milt Pappas for Frank Robinson.
Mets trade Nolan Ryan, Don Rose, Francisco Estrada and Leroy Stanton to the Angels for Jim Fregosi. Maybe not bad at the time, but bad in retrospect.
Nobody has traded more stars for a “bag of donuts” than have the Phillies.
They’re are bigger earthquakes every time your mom walks around!
I remember the great Virginia quake of 2011. The government sent everyone home. Rail service was restricted to 5mph. All for a 5.8.
At least you can feel a 5.8 and it actually feels like an earthquake.
It felt like the heavy freight trains that passed our building every day. It didn’t feel like any of the major quakes I’d experienced out in California.
Yeah, this felt like a slight disturbance in Muffies vibrator.
“If you’re a White person who is now rewinding every conversation you’ve had with a person of color to see if you flashed your “I am not a racist” credentials, then you might understand the power of DiAngelo’s hard-hitting new book, “Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm.”
Fuck you in the ass if you think I have the time, mental capacity, or desire to think about what I said during every conversation Ive ever held with a person that isnt like me.
No. Your obsession with race suggested you could be racist.
Even if I take her at her word, she’s just a self absorbed asshole who thinks other people exist for her self ratification.
Also her willingness to openly dish out on her own family in order to get approval from strangers, is something that normal people, of any race, find disturbing.
Absolutely
“…how racist her family was and spent the entire evening recounting every uncensored racist joke,…”
I bet I know way more n-word jokes than she does. Not because Im bigoted or racist. I just remember nearly every joke Ive ever heard.
I wonder what she would think of my buddy who we refer to as “Black David”?
Im thinking along the same lines as that. At work we have “White Dave”.
OR, and hear me out: Robin DiAngelo is a racist and is trying to project her racism onto the rest of us so that she doesn’t look so terrible.
???
Im white, and I cant stand her.
What does that say about me ?
You need reeducation?
Yep, this.
As a society we’ve simultaneously become terrified of being judged and inclined to judge everyone else.
It’s a wonderful combination for grifters.
The entire leftist sphere is massively racist and always has been. They are right now insisting that black people are incapable of succeeding in our country. Who the fuck believes that, but a racist? Even if there was systemic racism of the type that’s so subtle the racists don’t even understand they’re racists, the object of it should have no problem leading a productive and meaningful life.
Want
https://www.etsy.com/listing/885421125/yard-sign-in-this-house-we-believe-that
After I saw the original, I knew that there were going to be a crop of these parody and alternate signs created. The original is that right mix of pervasive and self righteous, that it invites derision.
If I were single, I’d probably choose something far more offensive.
I really hate those stupid signs.
My favorite bumper sticker is “I’m pro-something and sometimes I vote.”
Somebody here suggested a bumper sticker of “In this car, we believe in turn signals.”
Unrelated but made me think of it, the worst bumper sticker I ever saw said “My child is a SIDS angel”
I assume you laughed?
That’s pretty bad. I laughed.
Are they rivals of the Hells Angels?
I had a purple ribbon bumper sticker for a while, that said, “I like ribbons.”
Nice.
The new one in my town says “I’m a Holland climate voter”. I live here and I have no idea what that refers to
Maybe one inspired by Dada absurdity would be a good option…
Well, it is Holland, you have climate there, so Vote Climate in 2022!
I tried to vote with my feet, but some British pervert stole my socks. I wasn’t about to hold that little hole punch tool bare toe’d.
I once got my parking space stolen by a lady in a Subaru. It had a rainbow sticker that read, ” I’m straight but not narrow.” She seemed to bbe kind of good looking so I overlooked her rude space theft and waited for the next spot. When she emerged from the dyke-mobile, her ass was at least three feet across. I laughed loud enough for her to hear it. Not narrow, indeed!
It needs to come with High-Stakes, not H-stakes.
That’s fantastic.
“President Biden is walking back a threat that he won’t sign a bipartisan infrastructure deal the White House reached with senators if it’s not paired with another larger spending plan supported exclusively by Democrats.”
I read the article yesterday and, it was really weird. Some Dems we’re acting like this was to be expected. If we have to pass both, then why make a deal to take them out of one?
“Compromise” for TEAM BLUE means take away half your rights this round, then come back for the rest of them in the next round.
Lefcadio Hearn? That takes me back. Good story collections for weird Japanese stuff.
(Didn’t make it into the “Reading” thread but I just finished one of the English translations of “Dtrange Tales from a Chinese Studio” that has a lot of similar stuff from a slightly earlier period)
Also, good music choice this morning, OMWC!
I have a weak spot for story-telling songs, and this is a great story.
How do you feel about Slick Rick?
Good grief. I vaguely remember going to the kitchen last night for munchies and tripping over a chair. This morning the right side of my ribs are sore as hell. I think I cracked a rib.
DiAngelo is definitely in the running for ‘biggest asshole drawing breath’ but the competition is stiff.
If a conservative black woman bitch slapped that cunt’s panties off, I’d laugh my ass off and start a fundraiser for her legal defense fund.
vaguely remember That never happens to me. Well, except when there’s alcohol involved.
Good morning, Old Man!
And a good morning to the rest of you early risers.
Yeah, no way I’m clicking on the flicker link – I saw Halloween III.
The Hold Steady! Craig Finn grew up here and had a great band called Lifter Puller.
Excellent choice for Old Guy Music.
Sadly, so did I. What an unbelievably bad movie.
I saw some patterns in that grantzfucker thing, but nothing I don’t see staring at the sun. And I don’t think you could say I don’t have a very visual mind, I see every frame of a cartoon before I start animating it.
I know it says “Ganzflicker” but I read it as Gonculator
Somebody turn the lights off on their way out, I think we’re done here.
https://www.westernjournal.com/make-wish-terminally-kids-take-vaccine-die-without-wish/
As I said, the competition is very stiff.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Pelham_3/status/1407960885159596035
Make-A-Wish Foundation is requiring Wish kids, their siblings (and other family members), and “any minors participating in the Wish” to be fully vaccinated before having their wishes granted.
My only wish is to not have to get vaccinated. They can fuck right off.
From my experience of being a married into a family member who had a Make-A-Wish, they are assholes even before Lil’Rona came on the scene.
I’d rather dump my cash in a fireman’s boot when they do their fundraiser.
Holy shit, that’s low. I mean goddamn…
Ok I watched the Videodrome link and I will probably get a brain tumor now.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e6USefh4A4A
It’s actually an orgasmotron.
I just thought it was a clip from a Japanese cartoon.
Bobcats squatting on your porch? Fuck that, snuff them, make some Pad Krapow Gai and a few handbags. Or maybe a satchel.
Meh. I have a housecat that is completely useless. I bet those bobcats are much better mousers.
Ya, that is a good point but:
If I have a part of my house I can’t use because of some wild cats I would scare them off or if that didn’t work they are getting snuffed.
If you feed them now and then they can be semi-tamed, but only semi-.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pf5zJWjxho
At least it wasn’t a family of Bobcat Goldthwaits.
“Mesa resident Kate Smith posted the picture on her Twitter account Friday and it’s gained thousands of views since. Smith said the picture doesn’t tell the entire story.”
A rousing rendition of God Bless America might get them to move.
Kate Smith was the primary reason for rationing in WW2.
I have a weak spot for story-telling songs, and this is a great story.
I give you The Sick Note
Here is one of my favorite story teller singers from up near Chicago.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1RyIbAdHWT4
It’s hard to beat the Irish when it comes to storytelling.
+1 ” You dare to call me a terrorist as you stare down the barrels of your guns”
Real line from a folk song I heard at Slattery’s in 1998.
John Finn’s Wife – Nick Cave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l035e3cdTdE&ab_channel=NickCave%26TheBadSeeds-Topic
That’s a good song.
This is a pretty good essay:
All the Lovely People
Be nice until it’s time to not be nice? It’s be too late by then, narcissistic fucktards.
So roadhouse rules don’t work in the school board?
Describes perfectly all the “Lovely People” at church who are progressive nitwits with their “systemic racism,” “white privilege,” and “it is the government’s duty to help the ____ folks.”
Pretty much. It’s much the same everywhere, by making the personal political, all of the centrists are getting run to the left because they’re terrified of their woke acquaintances.
It also summarizes what happened to the LP over the last decade.
DiAngelo was a college student who had no Black friends and had rarely spent any time around Black people. But she saw herself as a proud progressive and a feminist. She proceeded to tell the Black couple how racist her family was and spent the entire evening recounting every uncensored racist joke, story, and comment she could remember them making, despite her dinner companions’ growing discomfort.
“Good God, Esther, doesn’t that crazy white bitch ever shut up?”
CWAA
Do guns deter would-be criminals?
Her claddagh ring was pointed at the people
She said St. Theresa came to me in dreams
She said I ain’t gonna do anything sexual with you
I’m kinda saving myself for the scene
My kids and I are watching Gravity Falls, and it is hilarious. A quality kids show.
We loved it and all the little ‘conspiracy’ clues it drops regarding the plot.
Great show. My kids (and I) loved it.
I could never get past the animation style to form an opinion on the content.
It has a gnome version of Voltron or Constructicon…what isnt there to like!
Even Devastator is sucks if the style sucks.
So good.
Regular Show is awesome as well.
There was a side of this city I didnt want you to see
Theres just these guys that I know we go back pretty deep
and I hope this whole thing didnt frighten you
there were times that it terrified me I know what they said, I dont know if its true
I hope this whole thing didnt frighten you
More on the Tour de France crash.
Get her, coppers! Much easier than dealing with guys like this.
What do you think the total damage in dollars to bicycles was?
I bet it was in the hundreds of thousands.
I know. Glorious, isn’t it?
Here’s one of the worst I remember. Car swerves to avoid a tree and sends riders into a Barb wire fence.
https://youtu.be/DWPzG0p1PC0
Clearly his condition is a result of white supremacy.
I think it’s time to renounce my Teutonic heritage. It seems the American occupation has destroyed the German’s logic and reason.
Fuck. My German “home town”.
Great athletes! taken out by a cardboard sign.
I said it before. That redneck guy would say, “here’s your sign!”
Is is really a sport if there isn’t a defense?
The TDF crash was a hot topic during last nights happy hour. The consensus was the crowd beat her to death.
I feel like bicycle riding is just one more symptom of the times.
Growing up a bicycle was transportation and some people would simply ride for fun. Now with special lanes that screw up traffic and spandex clad assholes that ride in packs and hold up traffic we’ve now once again broken into camps. Those who “ride” and those who hate those who “ride”.
When I used to ride a motorcycle onte time I decided to join one of the packs blocking up traffic. Let’s just say they didn’t enjoy a taste of their own riding style.
Cyclasses love to block traffic and talk about sharing the road, but bitch when they have to share paths with pedestrians.
Roads can’t get fleas and ticks so they get bicycles instead.
Disgraceful
First Amendment experts say the Florida law is unconstitutional and will do the opposite of what it purports to. Instead of promoting free speech, they fear it will both suppress certain viewpoints and undermine academic freedom, as well as force professors to waste time introducing discredited science and theories. And the effort comes amid DeSantis’ broader crackdown on free speech, including Black Lives Matter protests and the teaching of critical race theory in public schools.
Critics of Florida’s new law fear DeSantis and the GOP-run state legislature will intimidate universities and chill speech on campus. Micah Kubic, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, said the law is unconstitutional because there is no “overwhelmingly compelling government interest” to warrant suppressing the speech of professors and students.
“This is a really disgraceful move that undermines the First Amendment, that will chill speech on campuses, and I think that trying to brand it as somehow a defense of free speech is an ultimate ‘up is down’ moment,” Kubic told Insider. “Everything about it is designed to chill and intimidate, not to actually cultivate an environment of free speech or dissent.”
Hamfisted? Probably. But that part about “discredited” ideas is the tell.
If I for one moment thought those “First Amendment experts” would be willing to defend the right of people they dislike to say things they disagree with I might not think they are a bunch of hypocrites and agenda-driven political activists masquerading as defenders of freedom.
“Freedom for some” ain’t good enough.
So does free speech matter again?
Just kidding I know it never did, people just use it as a means to promote speech they like.
Further, I think the concern that “discredited theories will be taught” is laughable. Marxism is a completely discredited economic theory, and yet continues to be taught.
Modern Monetary Theory
FTA
“We train students to become competent in their disciplines and that, of course, means it’s not a marketplace of ideas, it’s an educational ground for the creation of competence,” Post told Insider. “All ideas are not equal, if you care about competence.”
Yes when we are talking about math and other subjects that have proven applications.
But I am suspecting that Post is worried the children might get the idea that what their professors are saying is propaganda in the other subjects.
Still, think it’s a poor law and probably not the best way to go about it.
Man, the ACLU snap to pretty quick when leftist causes are undermined don’t they? They’d have more of a point if certain points of view were simply being taught as an academic exercise, which I don’t think is being forbidden, rather than being used as a framework for a lesson plan by professors and a code of ethics by administrators. They aren’t so much pro free speech as they are pro brainwashing.
force professors to waste time introducing discredited science and theories.
I don’t think they’re being forced to teach communism. I think they’re teaching that discredited theory willingly.
“force professors to waste time introducing discredited science and theories.”
Like it came from a lab leak?
You don’t even have to get political. So many scientific ‘truths’ we accept today were once ‘discredited’. Even the obvious ones.
The entire point of science is to attempt to discredit all that has come before.
Besides, Zucky has appointed a panel of experts, independent experts. He pays them with his company to oversee all of these decisions. It’s the only way he can ensure that everything he does is fair and correct. Wouldn’t want to “discredit” anything helpful to his friends, amirite?
Yeah, unfortunately you can’t just wave away the decades-long propaganda march through all the institutions with a single law like this.
Do better, Ron.
From the perspective of positioning himself for running for President in 2024 it’s genius though.
Indeed.
One of my kid’s second grade zoom classes included a long pause in the panning on a BLM face mask thumbtacked to the edge of the white board. Could imagine a teacher positively portraying the hammer and sickle back in the eighties? Or some Weather underground stuff to his second grade class?
My kid’s history teacher had a Gadsden flag handing in his room.I don’t really see the difference except he likes the right thing and the BLM teacher likes the wrong thing.
I’d like to see an absence of political opinion in a government institution that is ostensibly there to teach factual knowledge. However, it seems a bit more tolerable to display symbols of actual American ideals than those of our sworn enemies.
My 7th grade math teacher had a “Solidarność” poster on his wall.
But yeah, I would really rather prefer they keep their politics to themselves either way.
For some, everything is political. Choosing what color underwear to wear is political.
Yes, where would be if we wasted time teaching about the theories that predated astronomy (Aristotle’s geocentrism, Copernicus’s heliocentrism), Darwinian evolution (pre-modern creationism, Lamarckian evolution), nuclear physics (Platonic/”plum pudding”/Rutherford/Bohr models), quantum physics (pre-Newtonian and Newtonian physics), chemistry (alchemy), modern medicine (bloodletting, herbalism), etc.
Oh right, we’d be exactly where we are because that is how these things are taught today (or at least were taught up until very recently).
The most robust disciplines have no problem teaching their own flawed histories. The less robust disciplines (which is not innate, but rather a function of the people and culture in them), not so much.
The problem isn’t teaching CRT in colleges and universities, the problem is a complete lack of intellectual diversity in those institutions. Tenure and free speech should protect professors, and enable them to teach this garbage while at the same time competing ideas should be prelavent to allow space for pushback.
But we have gone so far down the rabbit hole of lack of intellectual diversity that this is what we get. For every push, a la CRT, there is going to be a pull, such as this rather bad legislation.
Intellectual diversity is an output. The inputs are the funding sources for the university. Those founding sources (grants and tuition, primarily, but also endowment funds at older schools) are all classic examples of the principal-agent problem. The principal and payer is the average person (via taxes, consumption, and investments) but the agent who dictates how the funds are spent is not (being the grant writer, prospective student, or fund administrator). Our money is taken, sometimes willingly and sometimes unwillingly, laundered, and then spent by our enemies in a manner of their choosing, with little to no accountability.
I disagree with your first sentence. Diversity is both an input and an output, as it is a driving force for a breadth of ideas, which is necessary to a fully functioning university. Right now, we have what I call the “rainbow chorus” where everyone looks different but sings the same tune. A university should be looking for ideas that challenge their own thought process if only to sharpen their own understanding of the special fields that they practice in. A version of Mill’s Trident, so to speak.
The funding sources, while important for individual professors, should have zero bearings on diversity for any university as a whole and whether it is worth it’s salt as a research institution. Indeed a huge part of the issue comes from deans, presidents, and professors setting aside academic rigor to chase dollars. That is the foundation for academic dishonesty.
The bottom line is that universities should not be handling business research.
Re: “Lovely People”
Conservatives (or whatever it pleases you to call them) have better things to to than organize protest marches. For those to whom no aspect of life can fall outside politics, it’s a calling which cannot be denied.
While you’re out there living your life, they’re tunneling under the foundation of society and setting charges.
It is known.
Sometimes it helps to have an outside perspective.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/06/ten-years-in-america/
Cancel him immediately!
Good little reflection.
Didn’t know he was a Limey.
You can definitely hear his accent on Mad Dogs and Englishmen.
Is that some podcast thingy? DDG isn’t helping.
Good piece, anyway. I feel the same way. I cringe at all the “split America” talk I see lately.
Sorry, yeah its the one he does with Kevin Williamson. You can find it on iTunes or NRO under the podcast section.
“Deep down, though, I have always felt it.”
Brother from another mother. Yeah, you either get it or you don’t. This guy gets it.
While all public universities are already required to respect the First Amendment, the values of freedom of speech are inconsistent with academic freedom, said Robert Post, a constitutional law professor at Yale and former dean of the school. Professors differentiate between good and bad ideas, and truth and falsehoods, in ways that are inconsistent with promoting “intellectual diversity.” While the government must protect all speech equally, universities regularly grant tenure to faculty, grade students, and award grants — all actions that involve discriminating between ideas.
“We train students to become competent in their disciplines and that, of course, means it’s not a marketplace of ideas, it’s an educational ground for the creation of competence,” Post told Insider. “All ideas are not equal, if you care about competence.”
It’s true. Some ideas are better than others.
In a marketplace of ideas, much of what is currently taught would be left on the remainder table.
We have to destroy free speech in order to save it.
If an engineering student thinks he has a better way of building a bridge, I’m all for it. Only after exhaustive calculations, simulations, scale models and testing to prove his idea is better than the existing ones. Golly gee willikers! That sounds an awful lot like a marketplace of ideas doesn’t it? Oh well. I guess we don’t need any new insights because the Left has perfect knowledge and anything new is racist or something.
Were the state-funded university (and nearly all modern universities in the United States are state-funded to some extent) called the seminary instead people would more readily understand its purpose. Why they are fooled so easily by such an obvious sleight of hand is an interesting question, but the answer disappointingly seems to just be that their state-funded youth religious education (aka public K-12) and state-adjacent global missionaries (the press, the media) tell them it’s not. Of course, the state is just a vehicle here, it’s not the driver.
That the putative rulers of this system (legislators, governors, presidents) are not always in accord with the dogma of the seminaries does not refute the analogy but it does reveal that they’re not actually in charge. We all know that any state-level suppression of CRT or any other theory in vogue with the cultural elites is temporary and ineffectual. It’s still a good idea, absent better ones, because it’s better to fight on your feet than be forced into submission on your knees, but it’s not enough. The state-funded seminary must be defunded. Public schools, those that receive direct state funding, are the first and best place to start.
Seminaries are run by icky churches! They can only receive money voluntarily! How lame! You owe the STATE it’s Fair Share to support universities!
A little more common sense slowly getting out there (hopefully not too late): https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/dealing-with-the-pandemic-an-authoritarian-precedent/
“#Science has proved to be an effective way of bringing populations into line in a way that we might have once thought was impossible.”
Sobering statement QFT
There’s nothing remotely surprising about it. Our society is largely secularized, which in and of itself is neither good nor bad. However, there is something in the human mind that demands some kind of higher authority to guide their lives. In the past this was religion which was often twisted in such a way as to bring populations into line. Since our society is secular, #IFLS has replaced the entire religious belief structure for many people so it makes sense that #IFLS would be twisted by tyrants in the same way as religion to cow people into submission.
Yes
Independent thought is still not en vogue no matter what anyone says.
“However, there is something in the human mind that demands some kind of higher authority to guide their lives.”
For herd animals, yes. I guess I was camping out for a week on my own, reading ‘Common Sense’ when they passed that out.
?Sunday, Slutty Sunday?
https://archive.li/zSjfC
Windows is nagging me about updates. I wonder what it will fuck up if I relent and let it run.
I just watched a video about Windows 11 the other day. They moved the start menu to the middle, because that’s better, for reasons! And now more Widgets! and Apps! and Aero that wastes memory! Reasons!
Windows is like shitty rock music. If you turn it up to eleven, maybe nobody will notice how bad it is.
Plus it’ll brick your computer if you aren’t careful.
Mine won’t even run it – I checked.
And it’s only 4 years old. It meets all the system requirements and then some, including the security stuff that some people might have to turn on in their BIOS, but the processor is not on some arbitrary list of supported processors so no go.
For all of Apple’s issues, I still maintain a MacBook (work-supplied) and iMac desktop. The AMD chips are nice, too.
I maintain an iMac too and I prefer it in many ways but I miss games plus I can extend my work laptop’s screen on to my Windows all-in-one so I spend more time in Windows lately.
Plus the Mac switch to “Silicon” is going to absolutely fuck what’s left of gaming on Macs so this might be the last one I own.
I’m a console guy and my son has a gaming PC.
“US Threatens Sanctions On Gulf Allies If They Normalize Relations With Assad”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-threatens-sanctions-gulf-allies-if-they-normalize-relations-assad
I swear, we are just terminally incapable of minding our own damn business.
“woe to the great Whore Babylon, as she slips into the sea”
That’d make a good Iron Maiden song.
The Bible has dibs on that one,
That never stopped Iron Maiden.
https://twitter.com/LPTexas/status/1408942260771753988
“If I let him fuck me in the ass, he’ll fall in love with me for sure!”
“That ugly sheep fucker!”
“Hey, I’m not ugly!”
Is that response supposed to be comical or serious?
I have no idea what it means. Comical, serious, or just idiotic. There is no doubt they are both crazy, and both American so I don’t get it.
Congress is basically high school.
“We are the ones — with a smile on our faces — who undermine Black people daily in ways both harder to identify and easier to deny,” she writes.
By treating them as feckless incompetent children, incapable of agency or self-ownership?
Oh, goody. Chuck Todd is talking about the building collapse in Miami. He’s comparing it to Oklahoma City and 9/11.
“I’m not saying it was domestic terrorism, but…”
I assume what we really need is a vast army of federal of building inspectors.
Group it in with some of the biggest crimes of our time and then blame it on DeSantis. The plan has been set it seems.
Might have been from environmental upgrade. Two can play this game!
He didn’t actually compare it to those did he?
That’s obscenely stupid on any level.
We’re talking about Chuck Todd, here.
TMITE
I love Lafcadio Hearn. The greatest Irish export to Japan.
Also, I don’t think Mosconi taught Gleason anything. Newman, yes, as he sucked at pool. But Gleason was apparently already a great player.
“Look at that fat man move, he’s like a dancer!”
I am shocked that Wiki and you are dead naming Koizumi Yakumo. Do better!
Wait, is it still a dead name if you legally change it rather than just whine that people aren’t using your nom de guerre du jour?
I don’t know how any of this works, I’m still wondering if they can air Juno anymore without changing the credits.
IMDB already did.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0467406/
Awww…..IMDB is even using the preferred pronouns, too
“They began their career at the age of 10 on the award-winning television series Pit Pony (1999), for which they received a Gemini nomination and a Young Artist Awards nomination. ”
How adorable.
Everyone who uses those pronouns? I just call them Sybil.
Fuck it. Call it the Chinese century already. Either we’re getting a rectification of names or cultural revolution.
Already burning the books so no a stretch to start burying the scholars.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_books_and_burying_of_scholars
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectification_of_names
He still published under Lafcadio!
Not dead, not dead, not dead!
Lafcadio’s not dead!
OK, something minor, but I gots to know; is the wonder dog enjoying a “black” canvas, or a “blank” canvas?
The correct answer is that Wonder Dog isn’t enjoying anything in the 110° heat.
Hurricane season is coming. All those tall buildings will blow over.
This is why G-d invented divorce lawyers.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/15373369/my-wife-says-shes-too-old-for-sex/
This is why G-d invented child support.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/15394827/how-tell-got-another-woman-pregnant/
Seriously, who the hell are these people that screw their lives up so badly?
You’re supposed to tell her that.
ZING!
A guy is having a tough time getting “aroused” for the bedroom, so he goes to see his doc. The physician does some routine tests, and later calls the guy to come in to discuss the results. The doc also asks him to bring his wife with him.
They’re all in the exam room, and the doc asks the guys wife to dis-robe and lay on the exam table. She does, and the doctor looks her over.
After examining her the doctor looks at his patient and tells him, “there’s nothing wrong with you; you’re fine. She’s does absolutely nothing for me, either.”
Another guy went to his doctor because he was struggling to perform with his wife. The doc examined him and then wrote a prescription. He asked how many of these pills he should take.
The doctor said, ” No! Don’t take them yourself, drop them in the drinks of hot young chicks at a bar and you’ll be fine. Your wife is too old for sex.”
One night I brought a woman home from the bar. I made us a drink, sat down next to her, and took a sip.
I immediately passed out. I had given her the wrong glass.
She’s not attracted to you any longer? Either she really has given it up entirely or she’s getting it on the side with a new boy toy.
Let the media ass covering begin!
Not My Intent’: How Biden’s Impromptu Comments Upended a Political Win
Biden gambles on bipartisanship
I posted this the other day, THIS is Republicans. And the Dems still fuck it up a lot.
JFC,..
As Parents Forbid Covid Shots, Defiant Teenagers Seek Ways to Get Them
I’m sure this a huge trend with 10s of teens across the US.
One of the few things my cunte of a baby-mama and I agree on is that Tres Version 2.0 isnt getting that shot.
It helps that’s he’s onboard, too.
Well, the devil weed is legal now, how else are they going to rebel? Vodka soaked tampons?
Become libertarians?
Dude…those things burn the hell out of my nostrils.
They’re not for that. They’re for making bloody marys.
What you did there was noted in an ocular capacity.
“Can you give me enough shots that the puncture holes spell out ‘REBEL’?”
Rule 34…
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/perverts-swindled-thousands-socks-pub-24407683
I could tell she was enjoying it because she kept lifting her legs higher and higher in the air. Then she said, ” how about we take off my pantyhose first?”
“Claiming to be collecting the socks for good causes the SOCKMEN approached unsuspecting victims in the resort’s bars and clubs and paid up to £5 for their footwear.”
“The Sockmen”….name for a 1950’s doo-wop group, or 4Chan Incel group ?
Well done.
It’s only a swindle if the socks were worth more than £5.
Intangible value attached to one’s socks cannot be recompensed, and may be of greater importance than monetary value in a situation in which these values are being weighed against the fraudulent intangible values of the fake charity scheme.
Or something.
Everything/one has a price?
Does being misleading about the fate of the goods after the exchange mean that the exchange itself cannot truly be considered voluntary? I happen to think so. However, £5 for my dirty socks in a pub is basically like getting an almost free drink. Would I care about what they intended to do with them? Maybe, a little. I’m actually quite fond of my socks, and also value being comfortable, which I am not when wearing shoes without them. No sale, pervert or no pervert.
Socks.
Imagine how much money you could have socked away?
Sock it to me, baby!
Once I was sitting at an outdoor cafe in Barcelona having a drink by myself. A normal looking Spanish guy walks up and looks at my feet and asks me in quick Spanish “can I smell your feet?” Which sounds very close to “can I see your feet?” which is what I thought he said as I am sporting some fine looking Havaianas flip flops. “Sure” I said and he goes in for a sniff, at which point I realize what he actually said and shoe him off. The looks on the two middle aged women sitting at the next table were priceless.
I bet you “shoe’d him off!”
Heheh, I flipped him off!
Noted Constitutional scholar Gulag Barbie is on. Infrastructure = babysitters, and it’s the federal government’s duty to provide them.
Ivanka agrees.
“Too small.”
3 trillion here, 2 trillion there…
Peanuts.
What an annoying voice. She sounds like a goddam thirteen year old.
Well the voice fits the intellect.
If only she were around 13 years ago. The pornos with her and Pailin getting into a catfight would have made much money.
Hey, let’s use this building collapse as a cudgel to beat the Republicans with.
We can extrapolate from a unique event (cause as yet unknown) to a desperate crying need for trillions in “infrastructure” (to be defined at some later date) spending on the federal level. None of those Soviet brutalist apartment buildings ever fell down.
“How many votes were cast?” is not necessarily the same question as “How many people voted?”
How come Government types can vote ‘Present’ but we can’t do the same?
The difference is that most voters are voting for “presents.” They expect the “present” voters to take the “presents” from others and distribute them.
Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III > anything JJ Abrams ever touched.
Propaganda machine clanks and wheezes
The Centers for Disease Control Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said last week that the availability of vaccines means “… nearly every death, especially among adults, due to COVID-19 is at this point is entirely preventable.”
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Local health officials recently reported that just over 50% of Gallatin County’s population has been fully immunized against the virus, and 61% had received at least one dose of vaccine. That’s significantly short of what’s needed to achieve herd immunity and soundly defeat this virus. Young people have been particularly stubborn about getting vaccinated. There’s a sense they are invulnerable and the pandemic is already over. But their failure to get immunized is endangering those who are more vulnerable to the disease.
And far too many are resisting on the basis of bogus information spreading on the internet. Information you see on Facebook or other sites is always suspect. Get the best information from those you trust — the doctor, nurse practitioner or physician’s assistant you see for health care. They will advise you in no uncertain terms to get vaccinated. It’s safe and very effective.
Getting vaccinated has never been easier. Health care workers have been offering vaccines free of charge at gas stations and auto dealerships. Most pharmacies are vaccinating walk-ins without an appointment. Not sure where to get a shot? Text your ZIP code to 438829 or call 1-800-232-0233 to find locations where vaccines are available near you from the CDC.
Remember, you are not just doing this for yourself. You are doing it for the benefit of the community writ large. We don’t need another wave of COVID-19 infections. Let’s end this now.
Unquestioning obedient communitarianism made this nation great. What are you, some sort of Nazi?
We can eradicate viruses, if we just obey hard enough. That’s what SCIENCE! tells us.
Make variola great again!
She means all two of them?
Anyway, people who have already had the ‘vid and a number of people who will/would never have gotten it anyway put us at herd immunity by a wide margin. The ‘vid is over, but the oppression has no effective vaccine, other than lead poisoning.
“If we get rid of all civil liberties, we can beat this permanently endemic virus!”
No mention of the deaths and damages from the vaccine itself? The way they have cooked the numbers I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the latter is greater than the former.
The White Fragility author:
“One is this urgency to establish that we’re not racist.”
If you feel that way – you’re racist, but in denial.
Yarp
Guilty until proven guilty. The woke mob, or Torquemada’s Inquisition?
See, your first problem is caring what other people think.
It’s only a swindle if the socks were worth more than £5.
Were they taken by force? If the owner voluntarily accepts the fiver, they’re worth five pounds.
When DiAngelo arrived at the restaurant, she was excited to see that the couple waiting for them at the table was Black.
DiAngelo was a college student who had no Black friends and had rarely spent any time around Black people. But she saw herself as a proud progressive and a feminist. She proceeded to tell the Black couple how racist her family was and spent the entire evening recounting every uncensored racist joke, story, and comment she could remember them making, despite her dinner companions’ growing discomfort.
I chuckled at this attempt of a Progressive to have a token black acquaintance fail.
And I stopped reading at this point.
Old Guy Music is good.
I hope she did it in blackface to highlight a full understanding of her family’s racist past and her inherited sin.
I just wondered if her guests had any ID?
You racist motherfucker! Blacks can’t get ID!
I forgot. They only give ID to people who didn’t vote for Biden. I expect to see that question on the application, right next to the birthdate box.
LOL
I’ve seen this sort of behavior first hand by progressives in regards to blacks. It is utterly bizarre to witness but evidently not that uncommon. It just screams self centeredness and patronizing to the extreme and more than anything shows the pathologies of the prog worldview.
Same here. The lack of self-awareness is jaw-dropping. I described a recent episode of it yesterday. It is just incredible.
Late to the reply, but yes, saw that. Exactly the same type of behavior. They’re fighting racist windmills like proggie Don Quixotes while they should be be examining their own behavior.