This antisemitism is getting to be too much. It’s still Pesach and we may only eat unleavened bread (and unleavened anything else). Anything risen is chametz and forbidden. And all over the local churches, there’s signs saying, “He is risen!” So this is a finger in Yahweh’s eye and an affront to (((us))). Stick with oviparous lagomorphs, you fucking bigots.
A particularly interesting set of birthdays today, whoever planned this had to be smoking something. I mean, really, a collection that includes a quintessential Frenchman who set the pattern for their battle performance; why the Armenians hate (((us))); the spiritual head of the Democratic Progressive Caucus; the inspiration for OSHA; the greatest Spanish artist not named Picasso; a guy who always had good vibes; one more reason to hate Nixon; one more reason to wish that the Enterprise had gotten destroyed; someone who should have been the symbol for Team Red; and (along with her sister) one of my childhood celebrity crushes.
And with that, we pull out the nails and release the Links.
And once again, US consumers lose.
Do not stick our dicks in it. Do not stick our dicks in it.
Let’s be honest- their bikes suck.
We have raised a generation on Minecraft. Don’t worry.
Sick burn. I like it.
Let’s relitigate the Revolutionary War. Really? REALLY???
Winning friends and influencing people.
I had no idea that Rachel Flowers played guitar. I had only seen her do keyboards (where she is master). And not only does she play guitar here, she slays. And manages some amazingly intricate vocals. Old Guy is blown away.
Well, I got Miro right.
I had Hampton.
Same.
a guy who always had good vibes
Happy birthday Brian Wilson!
Not Donavan ?
HAPPY EASTER!!!
He is Risen!
(Excuse me while I dodge the unleavened bread thrown my way by OMWC now…)
Shouldn’t that be happy yeaster then?
That’s what the yinzers would say.
He is risen indeed!
Massachusettsâ Democratic governor, Maura Healey, who spoke at the North Bridge ceremony, also used the event to remind the cheering crowd that many of the ideals fought for during the Revolutionary War are again at risk.
Like right there in Massachusetts. Just look at MA gun laws. They are sections 121 through 122D.
My read of the laws are that all those reenactors had to have permits for the powder for their flintlocks, though not for the flintlocks. I wonder if they did?
You’re one of these people that loved the computer game version of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, aren’t you?
Tea and No Tea my American arse…
Never got past the babel fish
guy in the back row
Hey, are you new here? Have we properly harassed you?
I did like that game.
I didn’t write the game or the MA gun laws.
And I’m not going to live in MA. It’s not just their stupid gun laws. Taxes. Shitty roads. Expensive. Too many Proglodytes.
More serious reply — this is what pisses me off about gun control laws. The colonists had cannons in the militia armories that the British were coming to gun-control-confiscate. Letters of marque and private warships were a thing through at least the 1840s (and I swear there were a couple private yards that built warships on spec in the Civil War to sell to the Union, not pre-orders). The Constitution fully expects private citizens to have armories… all this “Only muskets and flintlocks argle bargle!” is as historically ignorant as trotting out the infuriating “Fire in a Crowded Theater!” against the First.
Some of the argle bargle crowd also wants to outlaw .50 caliber weapons. Apparently unaware that the flintlocks they claim are all the 2A was intended to protect were generally .50 – .60 caliber.
50 caliber is already banned in California.
Gun grabbers dont know history or the rationale for the 2A and dont care. They dont know anything about firearms and dont care. They absolutely never argue in good faith and they dont care.
What they know is that if they disarm you you cannot resist tyranny because they desperately want tyranny.
Best to ignore their words and keep your powder dry.
The answer to all gun control arguments should be a resounding “You cant have my guns.” Trying to argue with them on their terms is absolutely a waste of time.
The colonists had cannons in the militia armories that the British were coming to gun-control-confiscate.
And this is something that article conveniently doesn’t mention.
They want to ban all personal firearm ownership, as they find guns just as immoral and hideous as many find abortion. Large cap mags, .50 cal, “assault” rifles, handguns, it doesn’t matter to them, it is all the same. And they generally don’t think the 2nd should exist, and if it does exist at all, it should only refer to flintlocks, as councilor Dean says.
Guns and firearm culture are just murderous to them, and should be outlawed on the way to utopia.
When they figure out how to get rid of the people who just need killing, we can talk.
OFFS does she really want to go there?
She does. She’s an awful politician. She’s the Kamala lite of MA.
Yep. Criminals celebrating the struggle for liberty. A ceremony blah blah. What about having actual liberty? You know, the real thing for real people in real life?
“That’s just crazy talk”
The Revolution was just fought over tax and trade policy and the right to peculiar institutions like drinking American made whiskey.
or to balance any celebrations with questions about women, the enslaved and Indigenous people and what their stories reveal
[channels Rhywun] OFFS
OFFS
But to be fair, the left’s (the Dems, the MSM, etc.) default position is now hating the United States and literally everything the Founding Fathers stood for so there is that.
One of the good things about the election of Trump is that we’re mostly not going to get this shit in the official celebrations.
Am I the only one that thinks the lesson they’re really pushing with all this is “Next time, don’t leave any natives alive to guilt trip future generations?” Because that’s the only move left in their worldview that I see…..
Like, totally. I shudder to think of the bitter hate fest the Dems would have come up with.
So, back to the mean, SPF?
I don’t believe that for one second and not just because it’s in the lyingest lying paper ever.
Sure, wind and solar is cheaper to operate, as long as you don’t amortize in the construction and replacement costs. [And bravo for appearing immediately after I invoked your handle.]
And don’t forget the lawsuits that come screaming down with every environmental report.
I might for natural gas. Easier to pipe through, not terribly worse to store, less ash and combustion byproducts (so less scrubbers). Probably more complex if you go up to turbines, but a power plant is running large scale turbines on the steam cycle of a coal plant anyway.
But yes — cute lumping in of the “renewables” that only have a competitive advantage due to massive over-regulation and penalties on the coal side versus massive push and subsidies on the “green” side.
NatGas for peak, Nukes for base load — whatever else where it makes sense remains my presumed ideal. (Because I can of course be wrong… I’m not an EE after all).
Yeah, could be. My knowledge of this stuff is mostly from SimCity where coal is always the cheapest.
But yeah, the others are only cheaper in fantasy world with spherical cows and shit.
Depending on âtrueâ/fully loaded/lifetime cost, you might be better off just âoverbuildingâ nukes so you have enough capacity to cover peak loads as well.
The maintenance costs and capex for the solid fuel handling systems make a big check in favor of natural gas for now.
Dean, the environmental lobby thinks that during “peak” loads they should shut down and you suffer.
The typical stolen base (well, one of them) is to compare the costs based on nameplate capacity. When you do the math using their actual output (which is intermittent), it turns out ârenewableâ/intermittent power is multiples more expensive, because they can only be used between 25-35% of the time.
Right, and you have to have a backup using natgas or coal or nuclear at the same levels that we already have – otherwise you get brownouts and blackouts.
So were basically just throwing money out the window for virtue.
Hey, it’s okay though because it is OTHER PEOPLE’S money, right? [And mostly people poorer than us virtuous types.]
Arguing about objectively verifiable subjects is foolish. Want to know what is cheapest/cleanest/most efficient? Let the free market work it out (it is going to be natural gas)
Natural gas really is less expensive. Utilities had been shifting to it for years. As the Manhattan Contrarian regularly points out, the argument for renewables being cheap is based on fantasy and lies. You also need to leave out intermittency when making the argument.
Hmmm… can we just wish an ill fate on Excelsior? Never really one of my preferred classes (especially the refit) and it spares the rest of the crew….
Bezos better watch his back for the next privileged asshole assassin that makes the ladies quiver.
Bezos has a substantial contingent of private security. He’s not going down that easily.
I can’t read those archive.fo links.
People read the links?
Why not? I use them for paywalled stuff that no-one can read.
I think it’s because their captcha uses google.
I cant see them either, but I think it doesn’t like my VPN.
I’ll quibble with this one, OMWC…. they’re definitely international socialists… so probably Lenin instead.
Hmm, they’re only internationalist as far as international class solidarity goes – not internationalist with regard to the proles. Let all them brown people suffer so we get our fancy electronics without having to see the pollution and exploitation that goes with that.
This. They would rather the third world scratch in the dirt for roots than achieve a standard of living that they already enjoy. It’s sick.
They are mostly unaware Rhy.
See: Proggie living in a developed city behind the safety of levees where all of the native fauna and flora have been replaced with our preferred species that complain about the destruction of the rainforest.
They really dont understand what a howling wilderness full of pestilence and death NA was before we tamed it.
“We got ours, now fuck you.”
Since we’re more than 30 minutes in:
Fast-forward to about 12 seconds in the video
What is there left to say. It’s the same mob you see “protesting” every other goddamn thing under the sun in recent years.
This. I think our good friend Yuri Bezmenov had a thing or two to say about those kinds of people.
Belonging to a cult has always held rewards that no Marxist ever dreamed up.
I was just never a Zappa fan. I just never connected with his music.
Same.
The noted gal is impressive here, though.
Especially considering she can’t read music.
I’m here all week!
Me too.
“Satisfying moment Austin Metcalf’s dad puts white nationalist in his place for trying to exploit his son’s death”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14629033/jeff-metcalf-austin-jake-lang-january-six-track-meet.html
Sounds like they might have found an actual white nationalist, not just someone who is both white and nationalist.
There is a lot of argue bargle there. Here is what happened: A kid armed himself with a knife before behaving in an aggressive and provocative manner then stabbed to death the first person who challenged him. Muddy the water all you want, that is what happened. The kid is a deadly menace and committed a pre-meditated murder. Fry his ass.
I’m impressed how many times they managed to squeeze in “January 6”.
Columbia Journalism School really paid off.
Remember the CEO of ….(GE?) ? He said removing regulations would flood the market with upstarts peddling junk. My response was ‘Have you taken a look at your own products lately? They are shit. ‘
All of the complaints about Trump from people who have been in charge for the last 50 years. Have they bothered to look in the mirror lately?
They admire themselves in the mirror every morning, and all day long. What beauty, what charm, what brilliance! What is wrong with all of you people who don’t fawn over us?
“One great way to improve Homeland Security: Get rid of the TSA
Hereâs an issue for the new Trump appointees to the Homeland Security Advisory Council: deep-sixing the Transportation Security Administrationâs airport-screening work.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem recently ended collective bargaining with the union representing TSA agents after DHS found that more TSA employees are busy doing âfull-time union workâ than actually screening passengers on any given day, while 60% of âpoor performersâ donât get fired.
But as any beleaguered traveler can contest, TSAâs issues go far beyond that: Virtually the whole security/screening apparatus is a pointless circus.”
https://nypost.com/2025/04/19/opinion/end-the-tsa-privatize-airport-security/
You can also get rid of DHS.
“…pointless circus…”
That describes more than half of Govt at all levels.
You can also get rid of DHS.
Sure, and shuffle 100% of the programs around and not really cut anything. /Congressional Repubs and Dems
That’s what I expect will happen in the end with the Department of Education. Massie’s one line bill to terminate it without shuffling things around is still in committee. Rulli of Ohio had plans to introduce a bill to abolish the department and shuffle things around. I don’t see Rulli’s bill on the House’s website, but I expect if Rulli follows through, that bill instead of Massie’s will be the one that passes.
As I keep saying, a necessary but not sufficient condition for real reform is for most of the current Representatives and Senators to be turfed out and replaced.
It will be classic Congressional legerdemain to substitute the text of Rulli’s into Massie’s bill, and declare victory.
For fucks sake, take the win.
The first step is getting rid of the cabinet position and full departmental status, and shoving it under some other part of the bureaucracy. This robs it of a lot of its power. Then you steadily chip away at what it does, once the department is deleted and the world doesn’t end like the proggies fear.
You really think if the FBI goes away tomorrow that most of what it does isn’t taken over by other alphabet agencies?
“MSNBC political commentator Symone Sanders-Townsend sparked controversy this week by suggesting that the Trump administration’s immigration policies could expand to target everyday black American citizens for deportation….
âIf they can do it to them, if they can snatch students off the street without any pushback or recourse, they will do it to any of us,” she claimed. “To be very clear, itâs going to be the people of color and the vulnerable communities that are next in line.â
https://thepostmillennial.com/msnbc-host-claims-black-americans-could-be-next-in-line-to-deport-after-kilmar-abrego-garcia-sent-to-el-salvador
LOL
Don’t you dare keep me from shimmying up the victim stack!!!
It’s so blatant.
Protesters chanted calls for trans liberation, blocked traffic and held up placards that read âno feminism without trans womenâ and âbiology is not binaryâ.
JFC
Do I need to quote Theodore Dalrymple again?
Ignore these people. Blocking traffic? 90 days in the hole motherfuckers.
Demonstrators here made front page. While speakers urged “unifying the country” the photo showed a sign denouncing “fascist maggots.”. Idiots calling others vile names hasn’t historically worked well in changing hearts and minds.
If biology isn’t binary, then demonstrate two trans-people sexually reproducing (post gender affirming care for both).
That’s basic science, nutterfuckers.
Go back and look at the Theodore Dalrymple quote I posted. The lie is absurd by design and this was the most absurd thing they could think of.
The fact that it is demonstrably false is the point. The only way to combat it is to refuse to play along. Sadly not enough people understand that or have the spine to speak out about it.
Stating that at our university would get me fired and have our business labeled as transphobic and unsafe.
Eppur si muove.
The pretzels Bro2 turned himself into to tell me how not wanting men in the women’s restroom just because they’re wearing a dress and demanding to be called ma’am was misogyny would have been amusing if it hadn’t been so enraging. Gaslighting at its peak, and the bad part wasâhe was completely sincere. He believes this bullshit. Or else he’s allowed himself to believe it so as not to offend (“support”) his living-at-home, non-working, non-student adult children.
“They are who they are.”
Sure. All 4 of your children decided they were the opposite gender. How is it you can tell me trans is a tiny fraction of a percent of the population when you’re batting 1.000?
All his kids are trans and they don’t work? I’m guessing it would be way too painful for him to contemplate what happened while raising his children.
And also don’t go to school. The youngest (who technically still hasn’t “decided” [yes, that’s the word he used] if she is or not) is still in high school so obviously she does.
My husband and I have made mistakes and XY had a long rough patch, but damn.
Somebody said, “You aren’t raising good kids. You’re raising good adults.”
One would think the inventor of Amazon knows a thing or two about the importance of having high EQ for product launches and connecting with the public.
Itâs not the product. Itâs the message. It is the story that builds the brand. Story is everything.
Whatever.
“It’s based on Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s executive order in July 2020 on “improving equity in the delivery of healthcare,” as recommended by her Coronavirus Task Force on Racial Disparities, which also closely followed the riots set off by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Implicit bias training rules followed 11 months later, covering 400,000 healthcare professionals â but not veterinarians â in the Great Lakes State.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/health/whitmers-bureaucrats-sued-requiring-implicit-bias-training-keep-medical
CWAC
lol No shit?
I would love to see that horrible person up on stage and taking one of those bullshit tests in real time. When she fails it, the mob gets their say.
That implicit bias nonsense is the ultimate no matter what you say or do youâre a bigot so give us money for training grift. For the people who really are biased it confirms their biases while for the non biased it builds resentment and suspicion. At least some really terrible get to make bank though and isnât that what really matters?
If we are down to microaggressions and implicit bias, guess what? We’ve won. High five and take a victory lap.
Well… not if you want one of many jobs that require the racist and comically unconstitutional brainwashing.
CA requires implicit bias training as part of attorneys’ mandatory continuing education. It’s enraging.
My company has the bare minimum of this stuff where you watch the videos and select the obvious answer you know they want to hear. It’s not specifically anti-whitey like a lot that’s out there.
Honestly dunno what I would do if we were subjected to that stuff.
President Trump is relying on a cast of economic advisers with differing viewpoints and backgrounds as he implements a sweeping tariff agenda that has rattled financial markets and occasionally mixed messages.
Needs more establishment egghead consensus. Bring back Janet Yellin.
I’d settle for competence and a coherent economic theory.
Sunday is a slow day, but Easter Sunday has been *dead.*
Sigh. I hope business doesn’t rise again, cuz that’d be too much to bear.
New neurologist tomorrow morn. No neuropathic shocks yesterday nor today. Such strange, and not the dirty kind ya pick up at a bar. Will be discussed, but good news for now.
I’ve been here for five hours? Huh.
“Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs on Friday vetoed a GOP-supported bill that would have required local and state cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal immigration enforcement efforts, preventing so-called sanctuary cities from operating in the state.
âI will continue to work with the federal government on true border security, but we should not force state and local officials to take marching orders from Washington,â Hobbs said in the veto letter.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/arizona-democrat-governor-vetos-bill-requiring-local-and-state-cooperation-ice
Can we sell all the single white women in Maricopa County to the Arabs?
How many camels do we need, really?
âI will continue to work with the federal government on true border security, but….”
Isn’t there some sort of rule about this?
Liar.
I guess running Kari Lake for governor wasn’t the best idea.
That election was a fraud.
“Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our Country. Happy Easter also to the WEAK and INEFFECTIVE Judges and Law Enforcement Officials who are allowing this sinister attack on our Nation to continue, an attack so violent that it will never be forgotten! Sleepy Joe Biden purposefully allowed Millions of CRIMINALS to enter our Country, totally unvetted and unchecked, through an Open Borders Policy that will go down in history as the single most calamitous act ever perpetrated upon America. He was, by far, our WORST and most Incompetent President, a man who had absolutely no idea what he was doing â But to him, and to the person that ran and manipulated the Auto Pen (perhaps our REAL President!), and to all of the people who CHEATED in the 2020 Presidential Election in order to get this highly destructive Moron Elected, I wish you, with great love, sincerity, and affection, a very Happy Easter!!!”
Here’s the issue: I sincerely can’t tell if this is AI generated or an actual Tweet.
Looks real, I donât think AI has mastered the random ALL CAPS yet.
I’m sure there has been special effort put into “write this in the style of Donald”.
The initial caps on random words is a nice touch, too.
Off topic – I love the new avatar, Stinky.
18-year-old Phoebe Cates was a total smokeshow.
Yeah, she was. Jennifer Jason Leigh wasnât half bad either.
I just assumed this was the The Donald’s Truth Social Easter message.
What are your thoughts on 17-year-old Phoebe Cates?
*checks Paradise screen shots*
I strongly approve of 17-year-old Phoebe Cates.
Lexington and Concord? Can’t talk about them without tipping your cap to Samuel Whitmore.
The Dollop podcast covers Sam
I should go visit his marker, it’s not far from here.
Hey slumbrew. Daughter 1 just got accepted to Tufts grad school. Maybe we can meet IRL sometime in the future.
Congrats!
That’d be great – my handle at protonmail will get to me
My last year of law school, we rented in Arlington Heights, a few short blocks (if memory serves) from the route the British took on their retreat. The road was downhill from where we were living, which was kind of a bench in the generally rising landscape (hence, âHeightsâ). I remember thinking there just about had to be militiamen on our block firing down on the retreating Redcoats.
Back in the ’70s the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph would run a giant HE IS RISEN headline in the Easter Sunday paper.
I wonder if they still do that.
HE IS RIZ N SHEET
the country will look back to its war of independence and ask where its legacy stands today.
In tatters.
What did I win?
“For weeks, Gazans have risked their lives to protest the terrorist group that has ruled their lives for nearly 20 years. But this weekâs demonstrations marked a turning point: Possibly for the first time, anti-Hamas protesters have directly confronted Hamas members and expelled them from a public gathering.
Even more remarkable: Some Gazans are now physically intercepting Hamas fighters attempting to fire rockets from residential areasâan indirect way, activists say, of provoking Israeli strikes that will kill civilians and suppress the protest movement.
âTwo days ago, people ambushed a group trying to fire rockets,â Abed said. âThey opened fire on them. [Hamas commanders] Adham Al-Hawajri and Ahmed Al-Mazzanen were wounded. Thirty citizens were put under house arrest and threatened.â”
https://www.thefp.com/p/watch-gazans-confront-hamas-amid
If they get rid of Hamas, then what?
Something worse, no doubt.
I’ll believe it when it happens. There was a lot of celebrating on October 7. They didn’t look like people who simply want peaceful coexistence.
Maybe Israel is getting through to the mass of the Gazan people. The same Germans surging celebrations in Berlin in June 1940 met the USSR and Americans in the summer 1945 with a different view of the NSDAP.
Historians can confidently tell us that hundreds of British troops marched from Boston in the early morning of April 19, 1775, and gathered about 14 miles (23 kilometers) northwest, on Lexingtonâs town green.
If only they had had tanks and F16s.
“All I’m asking for is the right to the same weapons that I paid for the Taliban to own”
https://x.com/michaelmalice/status/1429092668953481218
I’m outside at Tranquility Base (AKA our back patio) for the first weekend morning this season. I haven’t set up the chaise futon yet, so the frame is still folded up against the wall and covered with a tarp. The neighbor’s cat came by and became convinced that something alive was behind the frame. Sure enough, he caught it.
I think he just killed Easter Bunny, Jr.! đđ°
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Some random murder machine keeps strolling through the property. I’m sure it’s responsible for the dead bunny from last week.
Good kitty!
Happy egg day glibbies. It is a sunny 26C took a kayak ride in the lake had a couple of bottles of wine with aome family and things are somewhat ok . So not the worst of days.
Walked the garden and i name this best tulip
https://photos.app.goo.gl/zJRGPTQYgUFiexmx8
Swans of the day
https://photos.app.goo.gl/vvsyVzPAsXuCXnWB9
Lovely…from a safe distance! My understanding is that swans make Canada geese (AKA Hatebirds, The Birds That Hate. Do you have them in Romania, maybe by another name?) seem like…doves. đłđŚ˘đŚ˘đŚ˘đŚ˘đŚ˘
Pretty
my literary criticism revisited
https://tiarosseditor.com/said-is-not-dead/
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Famous Authors on the Matter
Stephen King: In his book On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King advises against using too many synonyms for âsaidâ and instead recommends using dialogue tags sparingly. He suggests using action beats and character descriptions to convey tone and emotion instead.
Elmore Leonard: Elmore Leonard, known for his crime fiction, believed that using too many synonyms for âsaidâ was a sign of bad writing. He once famously said, âNever use a verb other than âsaidâ to carry dialogue.â
J.K. Rowling: In her Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling uses a variety of dialogue tags beyond âsaid,â such as âwhispered,â âmuttered,â and âshouted.â However, she also uses action beats and character descriptions to convey tone and emotion in her dialogue.
Ernest Hemingway: Ernest Hemingway was known for his sparse, straightforward writing style, and he often used âsaidâ as his primary dialogue tag. He believed that the words spoken by the characters were more important than how they were said, and that the reader should be able to infer tone and emotion from the context.
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If “said” is the primary dialog tag, readers will see it more like a punctuation mark. Young adult and children’s literature tends have more variety in dialog tags though. And then there are Tom Swifties:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swifty
Print and radio are similar in that it left to the reader or listener to imagine what it all looks like. The fight with the balrog in Lord of the Rings in only about a paragraph of 100 words or so and is pretty light on details.
I don’t think I’ve ever felt immersed in a work of fiction and that did not prevent me from enjoying the story. Detailed descriptions aren’t necessary in many cases. If you write a “knight on horseback”, readers know what you mean and can paint a picture with their mind’s eye. At least I can.
Regardless, if an author is happy with what they wrote, that is enough. I tend not to edit much because I figure my gut instinct was right the first time and I’m more likely to make it worse than better if I change it.
Didn’t I see a CNN female anchor in the last day or two respond to the charge that they hate the country with a denial in what I thought was a rare moment of sincere (embarrassment? concern? regret? guilt?) contrition?
Proper response: “When someone tells me what they want I consider that a stated preference. I watch what they do and the effect of that and consider that their revealed preference. If you truly did hate the country please tell me what you would do differently than what you are doing now?”
I will believe her when she quits her job, publicly names and denounces the people pulling her strings in an effort to regain her soul.
Pretty sure that was CNN’s Dana Bash.
Too soon
Florida State University leadership changed course Saturday on a proposed Monday return to campus when students insisted that it was too soon after a gunman opened fire near the student union Thursday.
An initial announcement Saturday morning by university President Richard McCullough acknowledged the upheaval felt by the university community.
âOur hearts are heavy after the tragedy that took place April 17. We are grieving with the families and friends who lost someone they love,â the email said. âThis has shaken all of us, and I want you to know: We are here for you. Classes and business operations will resume Monday, April 21.â
As students’ expressions of confusion and in many cases anger grew throughout the day â including the creation of a petition demanding excused absences for students â the universityâs position evolved.
Shut it all down. Demolish the campus and erect a giant tombstone.
“We shouldn’t have to come back! Also, we should all be given a 4.0!”
Why stop there? Demand the entire degree up front. Maybe follow on degrees too, as compensation for the trauma of just being in the vicinity. Like Hogg.
Yeah, you know that’s coming next.
Wait til next term’s tuition is due. Or get their first bill for the student loans.
“Fine, take your time. Any additional days you miss will be made up later, in a rubber room after finals.”
NBC News heard from a number of students who said they didnât feel safe returning to campus. Some described splintered doorframes and broken windows in multiple university buildings left by SWAT officers responding to the shooting. Others said they wouldnât be able to concentrate for fear of another shooting happening just as they returned.
There are assassins lined up over the horizon just waiting for a crack at you, precious. How can you muster the courage to get out of bed in the morning?
Thank heavens the campus is (probably) a gun-free zone!
Well, yes and no, apparently.
“Sarge, I didn’t show up ’cause there were people shooting guns and stuff. I didn’t want to take a chance on getting hurt. I’ll wait ’til tomorrow, if it’s OK with you”
Freshman Elizabeth Palmer said that every day she walks past the Oglesby Student Union â where the gunman opened fire on students and staff â and canât imagine having being forced to walk by it again.
âEven though most of us werenât physically at the scene, we all saw it,â Palmer said. âI canât walk past the exact area where I saw a girl laying in a pool of blood. Itâs traumatizing.â
Spooks! Bad ju-ju!
It’s called growing up. It’s not always easy but it is necessary.
Speaking of writing styles, anybody got an opinion on informative footnotes in fiction? Not like UCS’s, where the footnotes are part of the story, but actual information. I’ve only seen it done once and I appreciated it, but can’t tell if anybody else. I want to avoid some “As you know, Bobs,” and while I can do that in an ebook easily and unobtrusively enough, putting them at the bottom of a print page is obtrustive.
To be honest, I don’t care for footnotes much at all, fiction or non.
I guess that doesn’t answer your question. đ
Depends entirely on the overall style of the book. In an Elmore Leonard book, that would be really weird. OTOH, Terry Pratchett would occasionally use footnotes, and they were fine (and, of course, funny). Thereâs no reason not to have parenthetical asides in fiction, and thatâs essentially what footnotes are/can be.
Of course, the citations to sources kind of footnotes would be absurd in a work of fiction.
I’d rather have them at the bottom of a print page, so it’s easy to skip down, read the footnote, and skip back up to the main text. Having to flip to the end of the chapter, then flip back, feels more breaking immersion in the narrative. If the footnotes are really long, and you have to break them up across multiple pages, I agree that’s more obtrusive. “Where’s my story? This thing is all footnote.”
In his Nevernight books, Jay Kristoff make extensive use of foot notes. He adds a lot of great color and non-plot-required background, and while he occasionally goes overboard, mostly the footnotes add value.
Grummun, I have Mormon characters. They get into conversations that will NOT bear explanation in the text. “As you know, Bob…”s would be book-throwing angering, so in the ebook, pop-up explanations are given for context. I could cut some non-Mormon explanations out, but the cultural context is important.
pop-up explanations are given for context
I understand. In printed work, then, some kind of footnote is required, and for these kinds of notes (provide context required to understand the narrative, not bibliographic references) I’d rather have them close to hand, bottom of page, not clumped up end of chapter.
I appreciate them in classics and other older works where the language may be somewhat archaic or there may be obscure, dated references. These, of course, are probably always added by a modern editor. As for modern works, it depends. I loved the footnotes in Good Omens because they were funny. (I have a bookmark permanently placed in my paperback copy of GO where the footnote explains the old English monetary system – farthings, shillings, etc. A handy reference!) In an ebook, I think I usually prefer links to end notes rather than footnotes on the same page, assuming the link is located where touching it won’t turn the page or navigate to somewhere other than the note.
Yeah, I’m redoing Proviso a bit (because the font I used–never mind) and I noticed that in print, you don’t get the same info as you go along that you can get with pop-up footnotes, when all the info is at the back and you don’t know till you read the whole book.
They are not funny or help tell the story. They’re purely informational.
They may yet be quite helpful in Proviso, especially if explaining/clarifying references to LDS stuff.
I think if I ONLY put in the Mormon stuff, that would be sufficient, because I need to rely on readers for cultural context of other things. Mentions of Boss Tom and Truman–you can get that from context. Hank Rearden and Howard Roark, okay, you need to have read those, but should be gleanable. The rest…probably not.
The Annotated Alice is the classic of that genre.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy handled that with excerpts from the guide in the body of the story. So the book-within-a-book method can work for exposition.
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“Here, stick this fish in your ear!”
“What the hell for?”
“You’ll see…”
[voice of the guide] The Babel fish is small, yellow, leechlike, and quite possibly the oddest thing in the universe…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuumnjJWFO4
Same deal with Lovecraft and The Necronomicon.
The only novels I’ve seen with footnotes were translations.
Moby Dick avoided footnotes with Ishmael explaining/describing various aspects of whaling and sailing.
Thank heavens the campus is (probably) a gun-free zone!
MOSTLY gun free.
More of a suggestion, really.
Constitutional coup
Kreko says Orban focused on ridding Hungary of any institution capable of checking his power, and he says he sees similarities to how President Trump is carrying out his second term in office. The difference, says Kreko, is the pace at which Trump is operating. “I think Trump went further in two months than Orban could in 15 years,” observers Kreko. “In the United States, it reminds me of a constitutional coup, where everything happens very rapidly.”
Elections have consequences?
Way TL;DR and NPR to boot
Is there any truth to the Oban is literally Hitler we’ve been hearing for years?
I read the NPR herpderp so no one else has to. There was an amusing reference to Hungary being surrounded by the “open society” of the rest of the EU.
Ah, yes. The open societies where people get fined or imprisoned for jokes, so-called hate speech, and other innocuous/reasonable comments made on social media.
Orban got elected after the guy in charge of the opposition party (socialist) was caught on tape admitting they’d been cheating to win for decades. That was in 2006. You’d think NPR, CNN, etc would explain that when reporting on Hungary.
https://www.foxnews.com/story/hungarian-pm-in-trouble-after-leaking-of-tape-exposing-government-lies
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BUDAPEST, Hungary â A leaked recording that caught Hungary’s prime minister admitting the government had lied about the economy â keeping it afloat through “tricks” and relying on “divine providence” â has prompted protests outside parliament and calls for his resignation.
By nightfall, the number of protesters had grown into the thousands for a second day. The crowd was mostly peaceful â although bottles occasionally were thrown toward police dressed in riot gear â and continued to demand Socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany’s dismissal.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%90sz%C3%B6d_speech
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The ĹszĂśd speech (Hungarian: ĹszĂśdi beszĂŠd) was a speech Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc GyurcsĂĄny delivered to the 2006 Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) congress in BalatonĹszĂśd. Though the May congress was confidential, GyurcsĂĄny’s address was leaked and broadcast by Magyar RĂĄdiĂł on Sunday, 17 September 2006,[1] igniting a nationwide political crisis.
Liberally using vulgar language, GyurcsĂĄny criticized MSZP for misleading the electorate and said that its coalition government had enacted no significant measures over its tenure. The mass protests the speech’s release precipitated are considered a major turning point in Hungary’s post-communist political history. MSZP’s inability to contain the speech’s political fallout led to the popular collapse of MSZP and, more broadly considered, of the Hungarian political left, paving the way for Fidesz’s supermajority victory in the 2010 Hungarian parliamentary elections.
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Fidesz is Orban’s party. It’s an acronym for Alliance of Young Democrats.
But hey, why do some digging to learn that when you can just bleat about populism/nationalism?
âYouâd think NPR, CNN, etc would explain that when reporting on Hungary.â
Nah, the biggest lies the media tell tend to be lies of omission. They tend to be the most effective too.
If only our Dems could be so honest.
Oakland is saved!
Progressive icon and former U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee declared victory Saturday as the new mayor of troubled Oakland, a San Francisco Bay Area city reeling from economic stagnation, crime and homelessness.
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Lee, 78, is a Black female trailblazer who represented the city in Congress for over two decades before retiring last year after running unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate.
âOakland is a deeply divided City,â she said, adding that she âanswered the call to runâ so the community could work together to solve its problems.
“I vow to do everything I can to end division by crushing any and all opposition to the progressive agenda.”
Oakland has about 400,000 residents and is deeply liberal and multicultural, the birthplace of the Black Panther Party and claimed by former Vice President Kamala Harris as her hometown.
But Oakland also is reeling from homeless tents, public drug use, illegal sideshows, gun violence and brazen robberies that prompted In-N-Out Burger to close its first location ever last year.
Sounds like a Democrat’s paradise.
Only gun violence, not violence generally or with other instruments.
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Is that when youngers take over intersections with their vehicles?
But wow. A “progressive icon” is exactly what they need right now. Utopia incoming.