Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a lovely day it always is! Except for all the fucking rain. I feel like I was secretly moved to Seattle.
I hate doing links off of holiday weekends. It’s not that news is not happening, fewer news articles have been written to link to.
Republican states and Vermont had lowest unemployment rates, Democrat states had highest.
AZ county audit up to the half way point at 1 million votes counted and examined.
Texas Democrats walk out to stop voting reform bill.
Mark Meadows is claiming that there is “more to come” with Hunter Biden.
Florida State University pays student $100,000 for anti-Catholic discrimination.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
Mornin’
mornin’ banjos
whaddup doh ?
Mornin’
Well, he stood up for what he believed in, and his lawyers got a payday. Good times all around.
We need to do something about these lawyers. They sponge up too much of the judgements.
There was little injury suffered by the aggrieved party, so a large payday to him doesn’t make sense. He won the case and made his point.
All the more reason to do something about the lawyers who drove up the cost of litigation.
Two outcomes
Winning costs more
Price controls. Outlaw representation by counsel. I am sure some government response will work out best.
Who said government response?
We need more court options beyond the current arbitration system, which has already been captured by one set of customers.
More court options won’t involve government? Good luck enforcing your judgments.
Sometimes I think you take me too seriously.
Sometimes you sea lion.
I honestly don’t know what that even means.
Sweeping pronouncements of an utterly impractical nature are pretty much never serious.
I don’t begrudge lawyers charging what they can to navigate the Byzantine structures of our law, but I do harbor great concern that those structures are written in the first place as a “government response.”
And also that the legal profession as a whole (*not* individual lawyers) has an incentive to encourage these structures to be as complicated as possible, so as to make it nearly impossible for a layman to navigate.
I understand that the same could potentially be said about engineers or doctors, but the complications we deal with are natural in origin. Law is a construct of Man, and can be as complicated or as simple as its authors need it to be.
Consider the thriving industries surrounding various government entitlement programs, environmental regulations, and safety requirements that keep large numbers of people employed pushing paper and advising organizations on how to navigate these complicated constructs.
*not* individual lawyers
caveat not needed. Just like many psychologists go into the field to diagnose themselves, many lawyers go into the profession to prove to themselves that they are smart. The result is overcomplicated, ineffective legislation and regulation.
I don’t think it’s necessary to insult the individual practitioners in the process of calling out the systemic problem.
Except for software engineers. “Software Engineering” should be called “Software Lawyering.”
*ducks, scuttles away*
Change the guild requirements or allow competing guilds?
Since the costs were born by the offending party, what the fuck do you care? I could understand your point if the loser wasn’t paying.
It’s time for a class action suit against lawyers. I look forward to a large award that includes coupons sent to class members for $10 off legal services.
You’re drawing the exact conclusion the writer of the poorly written, loaded article wants to you take.
It was a settlement – the legal fees were going to be the “fixed cost” part of any settlement. The variable part would be whatever Denton was satisfied with. Denton wasn’t seeking piles of cash, he was seeking to make a legal point.
It was really BLM et al that were using government-run FSU to enforce their dogma by going after Denton. He may have been happy to see ADF compensated so they can continue defending others like himself.
Not really, because it would have also taken away FSU’s lawyers, and let more people beat them up in wholly unbalanced ways that would render the system impracticable in the long run.
Good morning. Any of the Arizona glibs want to expound on the Doug Doucey/GOP legislature spat? Seems interesting.
I can only assume that “more to come” with Hunter Biden means he’s now sacrificing kittens or something like that. What social and legal norms hasn’t he violated already?
I heard a rumor months back that he was banging his niece.
So the Bidens are the Kennedys redux, only with less class.
The Kennedys had class?
I think they are still considered new wealth
I think it was ‘Smuggler’
“Honey, could you do uncle a favor and pick up that crack I spilled on the carpet?”
I thought that was confirmed with photos…
And videos that used to be up on his PornHub account.
Though I thought it was a different relative?
I can’t keep track of all his familial fornication these days.
wut
The one where a corrupt politicians son gets off Scot free. I hope he breaks that norm.
“More to come”
That’s believable. I expect nothing else will ahppen.
Analysis
“There is a lost generation of conservatives and I think it’s because they’re forced to tie themselves to Trump,” one Republican operative said. “There was an anti-Romney backlash, anti-Bush backlash… When you lose the presidency — whether an incumbent or challenger — the party distances themselves and that is absolutely not the case here.”
Political parties have gone through concerns about talent drains before. At the end of Barack Obama’s presidency, Democrats warned that the bench of up-and-coming lawmakers he left behind was painfully thin as the party suffered tremendous setbacks in Congress and the statehouses. Trump, too, oversaw the loss of seats down-ballot. But unlike Obama, he has not receded from public view after leaving office. And his continued presence has sparked fears — mainly, but not exclusively, from the GOP diaspora — about the narrowing of the party.
Wot? Republicans did pretty well down ballot.
Another thumbsucker from the geniuses at Politico who are deeply concerned about the future of the Republican Party.
No mention of the people who might look at the power mad geriatrics clinging desperately to control of the Democratic party leadership and say, “Fuck it, I might as well go sell dog food for a living.”
“Politico who are deeply concerned about the future of the Republican Party.”
Democrats are perpetually concerned about Republicans not being respectably, mostly because they define what respectable is.
Who here remembers the Paul Ryan pushing grandma off a cliff ads? Pepperidge Farm does.
Trump did very well down ballot, which makes no sense in light of his loss. But there’s nothing to see here, move along.
In New Hampshire, the Republican candidates for Congress (Senate and two Representatives) did very little work. They did not go out and meet voters because of Lil Rona. They had no people canvassing for them because of Lil Rona. Republican candidates for the state legislature went out and met voters. Those folks had people canvassing for them. I know some folks that canvassed for Republican candidates for the state legislature. The canvassers said the people they talked to all liked the fact that there were people out canvassing. It was a sign of a return to normal.
The Republican candidates for Congress lost. The Republicans did well in the state legislature, reclaiming the majority that they lost during the 2018-2020 session.
Of course, the Republicans loss at the Federal level in NH is all due to voter fraud. The Republican US Congress and US Senate candidates’ lack of action have nothing to do with it.
Trump, on the other hand, who knows what really happened there. I doubt fraud was a part of his loss in NH, and I thought he was going to win in NH. I know a former legislator who used to be on the election law commission who is very interested in vote integrity. He spends his vacations as an election observer in countries not known for sound elections. He doubts there were shenanigans in NH.
The usual suspects are claiming that the Windham audit shows shenanigans. I am skeptical. The Windham audit shows that the optical scanning counting machines were thrown off by folded ballots. Absentee ballots have to folded to fit into the return envelope, and the folds were in a place such that it threw off the scanner.
Did no one test these machines? Or did they regard it as a feature?
My understanding of the coverage of the audit is that very few people thought to test the machines with a folded ballot where the fold lines up with one of the candidates’ circles. The folks in Windham probably didn’t know about the problem.
For in-person voting, you don’t fold the ballot. So no one could have noticed the problem with in-person voting.
Until this year, there just wasn’t enough absentee voting to make enough of a difference for anyone to notice.
The fold benefitted that particular D candidate but it could have easily been the other way around.
Yep. Which is something some of the usual suspects who think this is evidence of shenanigans don’t ever mention.
They’ve been writing these concern troll pieces for at least over a decade now going at least all the way back to the Tea Party. I can never tell if they actually believe it or not.
The
useful idiotsupper middle class white college grads believe it.Obama has receded from public view?
“power mad geriatrics clinging desperately”
Do you not Chuck Grassley, bro?
But unlike Obama, he has not receded from public view after leaving office.
What fucking color is the sky in that guy’s world?
I just got some malware alert on my phone here. I seem to remember others had that. It’s BS, right?
Uberin’ to Joisey ugh
Shred the phone – it’s the only way to be sure.
For the few times I use my phone to visit, Ive seen it too. I just ignore it.
Cant recall if the iPad had that issue or not.
Eeeeeewwwwww.
When those GOP lawmakers not toeing the MAGA line have decided to take the plunge into electoral politics, they’ve been drubbed. Earlier this month, Michael Wood, a combat veteran and small business owner who ran on an anti-Trump platform in a special election to fill the seat of the late Rep. Ron Wright (R-Texas) that he called “the first battle in this war to take back our party.”
But it wasn’t much of a battle. Wood barely registered with about three percent of the vote.
The voters are just not worthy of you, you pompous nitwit. It couldn’t be that you and your “message” suck.
You could see this a few ways. One is that Trump is saying things that resonate with voters. The other is that Trump has people under a magic spell. Guess which one they chose.
Concise and spot on.
Uberin’ to Joisey ugh
Ewwww.
I didn’t say Tubin’
It’s spelt Toobin.
Heh. Same thought I had.
That’s a good boy! Mornin’ Banjos.
Mornin’
If you ignore everything but that amazing clusterfuck in Georgia, I guess you can pretend Trumpism got the massive shellacking it so richly deserved.
TMITE
Remember there is a narrative that since Dems stole that, they will steal everything (forever) even if they didn’t when they stole that.
Is the a b-sharp or c-flat?
Is that a b-sharp or c-flat?
Baseball birthdays:
Theodore Breitenstein – who is probably the best 19th century and Cincinnati Red’s player that I know nothing about.
Carlos Zambrano, Derek Lowe.
Ken McMullen – didnt he run for president?
None are bad, but still boring.
Meh. It’s okay to be good at what you do and still be less than outstanding in your field. Not everybody gets to be Ted Williams. Everyone here understands this.
Zambrano was one of the best batting pitchers in recent memory.
upper middle class white college grads believe it.
Marketing majors.
Some people just want to be couch potatoes.
*Bart’s voice* “One PM, still just a potato!”
Do you want to re-enter a society that had decided it had a right to know every bit of your medical decisions and extract punishment on you if you don’t make the right ones?
I tapped out early.
What was the root cause of your discomfort?
None of it lined up with my lived truths. ‘Cept maybe the drinking more…
At least 90% of the younger women that I know are Progs. How the heck did you luck out like that, Sloopy?
They met through H&R.
I feel your pain about younger women being Proglodyte. In the Before Times, my main social outlet was going to Swing dances in the Boston area. Proglodyte central.
Wasnt it even more specifically the fantasy football league?
Could be. I just remember them posting music links to each other in H&R.
Take up the White Man’s Burden, Joe Biden
The President will announce that he will use federal purchasing power to grow federal contracting with small, disadvantaged businesses — many of them minority owned — by 50%. The White House said this will translate to an additional $100 billion over five years.
He will also announce new specifics on the $10 billion community revitalization fund included in his infrastructure proposal. The fund will be targeted to economically underserved and underdeveloped communities like Greenwood, where the massacre took place a century ago.
The fund will support adapting vacant buildings and storefronts to provide low-cost space for services and community entrepreneurs, including health centers, arts and cultural spaces, job training programs, business incubators and community marketplaces. It will also support removing toxic waste to create new parks and community gardens.
New competitive grants totaling $15 billion will target neighborhoods where people have been cut off from jobs, schools and businesses because of previous transportation investments, Biden is expected to announce. And the American Jobs Plan will also invest $31 billion to support minority-owned small businesses.
Yes, yes, of course. Cultural Space Deserts are what keeps the black man down.
So
fucking
tedious.
There’s a reason why I take my car to the dealership for service. Maybe costs more but I believe I’ll get satisfaction in the event of a problem.
There’s also a reason that when I have to drive through certain areas of my city I keep the windows up and the doors locked. Almost every business here in the downtown area blares opera music on a loop. I saw one poor soul last evening with a clear plastic bag over his entire body, shopping cart and all. It’s become a real problem, even for hicks like us.
“cut off from jobs, schools and businesses”
Crime and rioting tend to have negative consequences.
Paging SugarFree, SugarFree to the white courtesy phone…
We’d ask Astra but she’s hiding in her safe space.
I can’t wait for the inevitable “? It was Astra all along ?” reveal.
Destroy the incentive to travel long distances on foot to enter a highly prosperous country with a mostly friendly population that has enough aggregate excess income to pay immigrants cash to do various labor? Easy peasy. Already in work.
Harris’ role was always to be Bipoc and have a Vaginer. She’s a loathsome human being.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but destroying the economy will reduce the incentive for people to move here.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/06/discovered-migrant-safe-house-scottsdale-arizona-ice-gov-agents-provide-24-7-security-catering-illegal-immigrants/
We’re not quite there yet…
COL (cackle out loud)
Price controls. Outlaw representation by counsel. I am sure some government response will work out best.
Trial by Ordeal.
Sometimes I think this place is like an Appalachian Holler… 🙂
*passes jug of moonshine*
I have some jars of Sugarlands Shine in my booze cabinet.
Needs more incest and meth for that.
A lot more meth.
I don’t see incest as even being possible here. Do we really have any siblings or parent/child posters? Oh, aside from WebDom, of course. Oops.
I’m actually curious. It seems odd not to have sibs and parent/child relationships more present.
If this was truly the Appalachia of the internet, you would have people who are there own parent/sibling.
If a man and a woman get married in Appalachia, move to Oregon, and get divorced, are they still brother and sister?
“I never thought this would happen to me, and I know it sounds crazy, but it all started when I met a woman and her daughter on a libertarian web site…”
On the Internet? Man, you’re on the internet, it’s probably a vole.
Son of Fourscore but mostly a lurker, seldom a poster.
I tell my daughter whenever the Glibs say congratulations to her or sommat. I also send her relevant discussions occasionally that I don’t think she reads.
There are times we are just that insular.
Drop them trousers! Panties, too!
Why are you robbing a laundry service?
We’re not shooting at unwelcome guests yet.
Yet.
I am not ruling it out when the Revenuers come ’round.
… and refused to appoint a quorum of student supreme court justices
Is that a lifetime appointment?
Employers need to realize the government has changed the labor market.
Then change it back – remove the crap that was done to break it.
Isn’t thatshouldn’t that be the simpler fix?I known should be versus is.
But then there wouldn’t be $20/hour jobs for low skilled people (with a signing bonus).
It needs to be $24 according to the union.
Prevailing wage.
Employers should raise wages because society is going through a pandemic, eh? Pretty sure the Vox crowd’s answer to everything is for employers to raise wages. Hard to take them seriously.
That’s not their solution to everything.
You left out “Raise taxes” and “give up your liberties”.
Those go hand in hand. Just saying that when times are good, they say employers should share the wealth and when times are tough, employers should take the hit (as if they already weren’t if they aren’t Amazon et al).
Also Vox.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2zHjRPWEAMV2jj?format=jpg&name=small
From the tone of that, they appear to be having trouble getting their heads around it.
wait… weren’t these the guys who were mad at Israel for destroying a nonexistant bridge between Gaza and the West Bank?
Or am I thinking of some other ill-informed online outlet.
Who knows? The midwit trash that comes out of the “New Media” click-bait publications all bleeds together after awhile.
Ayup.
Well they just did that here. My wage is about two bucks more per hour than the little girl that I order my bi-weekly double cheeseburger from. Judi keeps telling me to retire when the car gets paid off but I can’t. I’d wither and die. I put myself in this situation, I need to pay the price.
The fact that your offered wages can’t compete with a money printer means your business model sucks and you shouldn’t be in business at all.
Do North Korea and Hamas intentionally alternate between launching missiles or is it just a coincidence?
Those poor container ship captains that can’t decide which country to smuggle to…
It’s like a higher stakes game of back yard “Jarts”. Nobody knows whether the missile will land in your little brother’s eye! It was all in good fun and besides, he walked across the course!
Once upon a Titty Tuesday…
https://archive.li/WEHPr
It’s positively striking how many nubile young women do not know how to pick clothes that fit them. Can we “Go Fund” an new Glibs non profit – “Finding Ladies Better-fittingap Parel” FLBP.
Number three is a clown.
June is busting out all over.
So how is the media stacking up with say Oregon Republicans that walked out a couple of years ago vs. Texas Democrats walking out yesterday.
Even handed reporting? Haven’t looked, just kinda crossed my mind.
I am torn on the practice.
I think it happened in Wisconsin a few years ago (forget which side) too…
It was the Dems reacting to Scott Walker.
Which one had the Team Asshole send the sergeant-at-arms track Team Bitch down?
I believe it was Texas in 2013. That is why the Democrats fled to Oklahoma.
Democrats tried staging a walk-out during a voting session of the NH House last April.
The Speaker ordered the doors locked as the Democrat legislators started leaving. Some managed to leave before the doors were locked, some were locked in.
When asked if the Speaker had the authority to send the State Police out to round up legislators so that they had a quorum, the Speaker said, “Yes, I do have that authority.”
There were enough in the room to have a quorum, but it triggered a rule that the House needed a 2/3rds vote in order to pass anything.
Since there was a quorum, the Speaker decided that those Democrat legislators locked out would stay locked out.
There were enough Republicans in the room that they had a 2/3rds vote to pass everything they wanted over the Democrats’ objections.
Love it when a plan backfires like that.
Wasn’t that Walker telling the teacher’s Union to go fuck itself?
Go fuck itself by doing something like blocking collective bargaining IIRC.
Yeah you don’t come to the table and negotiate in good faith, even if its shitty, you deserve to be told to fuck off.
Unions have turned into petulant children where they feel their demands must be met and any push-back is just mommy and daddy controlling their lives.
Those Dems actually fled the state.
On the practice of denying a quorum, I have to say I’m biased. Upon reflection I realized my entire reaction boiled down to “It depended upon whether I agreed with the legislation being blocked”.
So, yeah, I haven’t got an objective reaction to the matter of deserting the legislative floor to interrupt proceedings.
I can’t find coverage from then, but I recall Texas Democrats were cheered when they fled to Oklahoma in 2013.
I’m of the mind that any time government can’t work, it’s a win. They’ll have to take it up eventually and that means it slows everything down, which is always a good thing.
^This
Agreed. Why I was torn. I want a dysfunctional government in terms of lawmaking and rule making.
Good morning Glibs. Hope you are all managing your hangovers well.
This weekend we hosted our 8th annual (except last year) superspreader event. It started as a party for my wife’s roller derby team, and now it’s anyone who has ever played roller derby or sled hockey or lifted weights with one of us. This was a banner year, about 75 people in my yard. Food and drink were plentiful, the kids had a bounce house, the adults had volleyball, and the weather was perfect. And not one single mask was seen. It was the perfect way to kick off summer.
I’m glad you and everyone there had fun and enjoyed yourselves.
I was going to say it sounded like fun, but 75 people is beyond my threshold for gatherings.
Keep on having fun.
We’ve known everyone for years, so it didn’t at all seem like an impersonal crowd. Plus there were several that we hadn’t seen in quite some time.
I’m trying to keep separate the encouragement of normalcy from my own hangups.
Even if I knew all seventy five people well, it’s too big a crowd. One of the reasons I don’t often go on the glib zooms is because it’s too big of a crowd there.
I recognize that I am strange, possibly borderline mental.
I don’t mind large gatherings but I do mind large gatherings where I am the host.
I don’t think you’re that strange. I can get that way too. My middle daughter knew everyone this weekend, but she got overwhelmed and had to take a break.
Knowing a few roller girls from a previous life, I would be nervous about “Death By Snu-Snu”
“The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised!”
One of the funniest lines ever written.
Excellent
World’s First ‘Immaterial’ Sculpture Sells for 15,000 Euros
How does buying the invisible sculpture actually work? Italy 24 News reported that the work must be placed in a space that allows the dimensions of approximately 4.9 x 4.9 ft (150 x 150 cm) to be free of any obstructions. The owner of the invisible sculpture also gets a certificate of guarantee of the sculpture’s authenticity.
We call that a Dutch Oven.
It’s a two-dimensional sculpture? I think they got ripped off; they paid for an invisible sculpture and got an invisible painting.
*sigh*
I’ve before used the comparison to the tailors from the emperor’s new clothes to reflect my views on these ‘sophisticates’ in various reaches of the art world.
Now they’ve gone and made it literal.
They’re doing it in IDPA too.
“But I’m exposing myself to those targets!”
“No you’re not.”
“But look! They’re right there!”
“We’re designating this position as being under cover with respect to those targets.”
You know what? I’m a little drunk and I can’t manage a piquant riposte to that idiocy. I’m sick and tired of dredging my brain for responses. I also want the masks gone, NOW.
I really need to get an agent.
The owner of the invisible sculpture also gets a certificate of guarantee of the sculpture’s authenticity.
You only have a cheap knockoff. The original is in the woods behind my house.
Starting with Picasso, all modern art is crap. Yes, your mileage may vary.
Anything that requires professional examination to differentiate from a 6th grader’s art fair entry is garbage.
Agreed. If you have to have some sort of lecture in order to “appreciate” a work of art, the art is probably crap.
It’s not crap, it’s money laundering.
I’ve heard this theory before. But I can’t seem to figure out how it’s supposed to work.
Same way as in Breaking Bad, only with art instead of a car wash.
Most will get away with it as long as you don’t tell the fake crack head selling magazines door to door
I didn’t watch that show.
I really like Picasso.
But, then again, nobody ever called him an asshole.
Not like you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjMl5wzNCiY
The girls would turn the color of an avocado
When he’d drive down the street in his El Dorado
Baffling! Inexplicable!
To the surprise of many students and parents, public colleges in every state except Louisiana use for-profit debt collection agencies to recover overdue tuition, library fees and even parking ticket fines. Many universities add late fees to students’ bills, and when debt collectors add another 40 percent, students can end up owing thousands of dollars more than they did originally.
As tuition has risen astronomically, one child care or medical crisis can push students over the edge and force them to choose between household bills and tuition payments. The extra fees and interest can make it impossible for them to get back on track, ruining their credit and imperiling their financial futures.
Public colleges have sent hundreds of thousands of students to private debt collection agencies, and the spiraling debt held there totals more than half a billion dollars, a Hechinger Report investigation has found through more than 60 inquiries with agencies in every state and more than 120 inquiries with individual institutions.
The financial burden makes it impossible for many students to return to college and earn degrees that could get them good jobs. State officials often bemoan a lack of college-educated workers for their economies, yet very few states track the problem. Most can’t provide figures about how often they use the companies, how many students are affected or how much in additional fees and interest is being charged.
What could have caused this completely unanticipated rise in tuition and fees?
I blame for-profit schools.
Organizing as a non-profit makes you a better company
/TMITE… definitely not driving any agenda
Good morning!
No one at the dry cleaners, or Dunkin Donuts, said a word when I strolled in barefaced today. Folks seem to be finally dispensing with the bullshit.
They’re just terrified to confront you. You’re guilty of aggressive heresy against the consensus.
“Oderint dum metuant.”
Not that I’m a particular fan of Caligula, but fiddling while Rome burns does seem quite on point, these days…
Little Boots was not the one accused of doing that.
And now I wonder when the instrument in the story became a fiddle, since those are far more modern.
Ah, right, that was Nero. Caligula was the one with the healthy and active sex life.
And upon further research, that quote may have really come from Tiberius, or it may have been made up wholesale.
“I didn’t say half the things I said” – Yogi Bera
He was playing a lyre (apparently). It’s all a fucking lie, anyways.
I was starting to contemplate the idiom and wondering when and how it became a fiddle. But I’m pretty sure my rambling isn’t all that clear when typing parallel to a train of thought.
He was nowhere near Rome. As stated above, who fucking knows? Myths and truth.
Drunk Irish time travelers?
I dare you to do it bare-assed. That’s the real test.
No. Chaps. Make them work for it.
I can report that at the INdy 500 this weekend. Folks wore a mask all the way through the gate before taking it off for the rest of the day. 135,000 people, all unmasked everywhere i went.
Brutal.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2ykhCjWEAE-uQ-?format=jpg&name=900×900
Pleasent
Where is that?
I believe it’s Soviet Russia somewhere.
I didn’t realize Pyongyang had that many trees.
Looks like low-imagination Minecraft.
You just described Socialist Housing to a T.
Brutalist architecture #FTW!
More than 36 million adults in the U.S. have earned some college credits but haven’t finished their degrees, and experts say the barrier is often financial.
And?
Do these individual courses impart useful information, or not? Why wouldn’t people just pick and choose based on specific interests or needs? Do the students only derive value from the piece of paper at the end, and nothing from the course material along the way? Why doesn’t anybody at NBC ask that question?
They don’t want to account for people that have taken those credits not to gain a piece of paper, but for gain in their jobs, like me. Or weekenders that are bored and take a few classes to just take them. Which is what you were saying now that I am done typing it.
I thought about taking additional classes for personal edification.
But the price tag per credit hour put me off.
I already have my piece of paper.
I think it may have been less the absolute dollar value than the realization of how much of it was subsidizing activity I’m opposed to.
I have the same idea about taking some yoga classes…
I have always loved how I felt after doing yoga. I am probably one of the least flexible humans in history, but it was great when I was lifting all the time.
The scenery wasn’t bad either.
They’d probably place me in the “Granny” class so I’d need to invest in a fly swatter.
I have a degree but I am going to take art classes in the fall. Will I go beyond “classes to teach me what I want to know” to a full-blown degree? Probably not. I’m in the “get me to where I want to go” stage of life, not “another lambskin please!”
Asking that question might lead to some other uncomfortable questions. Or perhaps they skipped that day in J school where asking questions was discussed.
Financial, as in, “This shit isn’t worth all the money I’m paying for it?”
Asking questions implies that there is information they require in order to complete the story. When you are a propagandist, you know what you’re going to write before you start, it’s just a matter of framing to fit the narrative. Ergo: no need to seek out any additional information since it’s unnecessary.
This was part of the major thesis of Bryan Caplan’s “The Case Against Education.” It is part of his proof that higher ed is basically about credentialism and not learning. Someone who comes up one class short of graduating should earn very close to someone who finished. But they don’t.
How much value should an employer grant to someone who hypothetically audited 4 years worth of classes at an ivy for free but got no degree, versus someone who did the same but paid tuition and has a degree?
His argument to me is pretty damn solid.
Except that in lots of cases (not all, of course), the employer is actually using the degree requirement to launder the “testing” hurdle. That’s gonna stay a thing. So some of it’s credentialism-as-credentialism, and some is this.
Yeah, he puts that in to the same category.
And some of it is actually valid. It proves you can finish things.
Obviously, allowing testing would be a lot saner.
That’s what my dad continually reminded me of.
Mornin’.
“I declared Election Integrity and Bail Reform to be must-pass emergency items for this legislative session. It is deeply disappointing and concerning for Texans that neither will reach my desk,” he said. “Ensuring the integrity of our elections and reforming a broken bail system remain emergencies in Texas. They will be added to the special session agenda. Legislators will be expected to have worked out the details when they arrive at the Capitol for the special session.”
Are we going to see Texas legislators run to Oklahoma again?
Didn’t the Oregon Dems seek bench warrants or some such for Team Red representatives when they fled the state?
That’s different because reasons.
I don’t think they fled the state last time. The state Dems threatened to send the state police after them and one of the R’s (the little shit that supported red flag law incidrntally) said send single men if they go after him. The establishment got up in arms about his threats of violence, but not the threat of violence implied with using the state police. And using the state police for political ends.
This session, the R’s caved and allowed fines for such actions to be added to the rules for the House. The Senate rolled over for the D’s and quit their delaying tactics in exchange for a payoff.
Not that I’m a particular fan of Caligula, but fiddling while Rome burns does seem quite on point, these days…
As a euphemism, it’s perfect for Caligula.
Isn’t that particular tall tale attributed to Nero?
Caligs made his horse a Swamp Dweller.
If I understand correctly, he didn’t actually, but the story was circulated after he made a comparsion that his horse could do a better job than someone. It was a tale told by his political enemies.
As with Nero and the fiddle, a lot of these tales are written by their political enemies as an after-the-fact justification for removing them from power. Wait that sounds kinda familiar. Weird.
As if political discourse is new! Unprecedented! People saying this is the ugliest they have heard of choose not to learn history on purpose so they can make their points as if they have something important to say. Imagine that.
At least we have dialed back on the assassination by Praetorian Guard bit… so far.
Its been a few decades.
I Claudius
Me Claudius
Gawds, can you imagine how Trump could’ve trolled the resistance with “they said bad shit about Nero and Caligula too”.
I expect future folktales will include how he got away with shooting random people on 5th avenue and said ‘let them eat fish cleaner’
Male Inmates in Women’s Prisons
Prison is a man’s world ladies.
Relevant
But muh public health experts!
More than 60% of Nestlé’s traditional packaged consumer food and beverage products do not meet an internationally recognized health standard, according to internal company documents seen by the Financial Times.
“Some of our categories and products will never be ‘healthy’ no matter how much we renovate,” the company said in a presentation seen by top executives at the world’s largest food conglomerate.
CEO Mark Schneider told Bloomberg in September that the company is making continued investments in the healthiness of its products, but “confectionary and chocolate address a deep human need and are going to be here to stay.”
The definition of “healthy” comes from the Australian health star rating system, which scores products on a five-star scale and is used by international researchers including the Access to Nutrition Foundation. A product must score at least 3.5 stars to be considered healthy.
Metrics like the health star system “enable consumers to make informed choices. However, they don’t capture everything,” a company spokesperson said in a statement to Insider. “About half of our sales are not covered by these systems. That includes categories such as infant nutrition, specialized health products and pet food, which follow regulated nutrition standards.”
People buy stuff that’s not good for them?
We must find a way to put a stop to it.
The government has already interfered in a lot of personal choices with the reasoning that it increases costs for “public health” programs (e.g. seatbelt and helmet laws). That mentality has only grown with the COVID fiasco. Many people really do believe that your body belongs to the government (except when it comes to abortion) so I don’t think outlawing junk food is too far off.
Robert’s readies his broccoli defense once again! Tune in this Saturday night, same time, same place!
It’s a penalveg
Thanks for all the fish and the laughs, Glibs! I need sleep and vittles. Until next time.
Bye Festus!
Professor Marion Nestle (no relation), who researches nutritional science at Cornell, told the FT that a healthy portfolio is likely out of reach for large publicly traded companies like Nestlé.
“Food companies’ job is to generate money for stockholders, and to generate it as quickly and in as large an amount as possible,” she said. “They are going to sell products that reach a mass audience and are bought by as many people as possible, that people want to buy, and that’s junk food.”
“Nestlé is a very smart company, at least from my meetings with people who are in their science [departments] … but they have a real problem,” she added. “Scientists have been working for years to try to figure out how to reduce the salt and sugar content without changing the flavor profile and guess what, it’s hard to do.”
Michelle Obama can fix this, if we just put her in charge of America’s diet. She knows what good little boys and girls should eat.
Salt and sugar ARE the flavor in their products. You can’t reduce both without changing the flavor profile.
You can still make sour and bitter products. Anyone care for ampalaya candy?
Weren’t those the little orange guys in Willy Wonka’s factory? (In the movie, that is. In the book they were pygmies.)
Those were Oompa Loompas. Different flavor entirely.
Professor Marion Nestle (no relation), who researches nutritional science at Cornell
Why should I give a shit what you have to say?
#TMITEthings
Pray tell, what does Michelle like to eat???
Now do Kamala
My son has never forgiven her for the school lunch thing. He was 8 at the time.
I always strip down completely when I am on Zooms and have to pee. Tell me I am not the only one.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/second-time-canadian-mp-accidently-caught-naked-during-parliament-call
That’s crazy. Normal people only take off their shirt when they use the bathroom.
I guess that screen shot was his first offense, I didn’t read through the captions before I posted. That excuse was he was changing after working out. Apparently searching for Canadians pee on zoom shows Canadians like pee.
I worked with an exceptionally fat kid when I was in college. One day our boss comes back to the stock room and tells us to look in the bathroom. The fat kid took off his pants to take a shit. And after checking in subsequent days, this was a regular occurrence. And he mustve not known where his asshole was, because he always got shit everywhere.
he mustve not known where his asshole was
STEVE SMITH VOLUNTEER FOR SEARCH PARTY!
Long ago when I worked in a government building, there was a guy who dropped pants and underwear at urinals. There was another who always crossed his arms and leaned his head against the wall. I also encountered a few wall huggers in the hallways.
Removing your socks relaxes the bowels, this is known.
He was just Costanzaing.
Ahh.. Québécois, makes perfect sense now.
Seriously, those crazy northerners really like their pee. Some politician peed in a woman’s coffee mug, some viral video about pee drinking. It was quite the revelation.
Oui, oui.
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Now sue the Pope for anti-Catholic discrimination!
I’m day-drinkin’. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Cheers mate! Im ‘working’ so its only a nip in the coffee….which looking that up…is 6oz…oh my
Hey folks – I’m normally not one to toot my own horn, but I’m just gonna power through it. Nova Roma I (I gave an excerpt some time back) is now on the market.
There are no fake reviews, so how will I know if I am going to like it?
***** – Bets book evre!!!@!!!
* – Worst travesty against language ever created.
I’m reading one of your books now, so I can confirm you are an expert in this field.
TOTALLY KIDDING; I’m ENJOYING the book so far!
I’m glad you’re enjoying it.
How far along are you?
Honestly, only a few pages in; I violated my recent rule to never try to read more than two books at a time when I bought yours, so I started it and then went back to the other two I haven’t finished yet. But I’ll continue and finish, for sure. It’s off to a good start.
okay.
w00t! Congrats!