April 04, 2013
— Maetenloch
Princeton Grad: Ladies You Better Find Your Husbands in College
From a letter by Susan A. Patton, Princeton grad of '77, in the Daily Princetonian:
For most of you, the cornerstone of your future and happiness will be inextricably linked to the man you marry, and you will never again have this concentration of men who are worthy of you.
Here's what nobody is telling you: Find a husband on campus before you graduate. Yes, I went there....My younger son is a junior and the universe of women he can marry is limitless. Men regularly marry women who are younger, less intelligent, less educated. It's amazing how forgiving men can be about a woman's lack of erudition, if she is exceptionally pretty. Smart women can't (shouldn't) marry men who aren't at least their intellectual equal. As Princeton women, we have almost priced ourselves out of the market. Simply put, there is a very limited population of men who are as smart or smarter than we are. And I say again--you will never again be surrounded by this concentration of men who are worthy of you.
Of course, once you graduate, you will meet men who are your intellectual equal - just not that many of them. And, you could choose to marry a man who has other things to recommend him besides a soaring intellect. But ultimately, it will frustrate you to be with a man who just isn't as smart as you.
Here is another truth that you know, but nobody is talking about. As freshman women, you have four classes of men to choose from. Every year, you lose the men in the senior class, and you become older than the class of incoming freshman men. So, by the time you are a senior, you basically have only the men in your own class to choose from, and frankly, they now have four classes of women to choose from. Maybe you should have been a little nicer to these guys when you were freshmen?
<Sam Kinnison voice> Is she right?
Well there are seasons to our lives - particularly so for women. And as of yet no amount of technology or academic theorizing or outraged blog posting can alter this basic fact.
Is this fair for women? Nope - not at all. But then sometimes Mother Nature is just a flat-out sexist bitch.
So given the reality of men and women and biology Patton's advice is about 100x more likely to result in overall happier lives for Princeton female graduates than anything they'd ever learn in a Women's Studies class. It's certainly not the only path to satisfaction (after all Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey did eventually find a Mr. Passey) nor is it a guarantee - but on the other hand why play Life on difficulty setting Challenging if you don't have to. The prizes are going to be the same either way.
James Taranto has thoughts here. Plus more from Bookworm, Instapundit, and WRM.
Why Are Action Stars More Likely to Be Republican?
Thanks to benK.
Fighting ability, largely determined by upper body strength, continues to rule the minds of modern men, according to a new study by Aaron Sell from Griffith University in Australia and colleagues. Their work explores the concept that human males are designed for fighting, and shows how this fighting ability drives both their behavior and attitudes to a range issues, including political orientation. For example, their research demonstrates that among Hollywood actors, those selected for their physical strength, i.e. action stars, are more likely to support the Republican position on foreign policy.
...The authors conclude: "Upper body strength in adult males is a crucial variable that appears to have impacts on a wide range of mental mechanisms. These mechanisms were designed by natural selection at a time when personal physical aggression was far more common and individual differences in fighting ability were far more relevant for the resolution of conflicts.
Strengthen your body and your mind will follow.
Stupidity's in the Water: Florida DJs Suspended for 'Dihydrogen Monoxide' April Fools' Joke
What two radio hosts in Florida thought was a harmless April Fools joke got them temporarily suspended from their long-time post.
The joke made by morning show hosts for Gator Country 101.9, Val St. John and Scott Fish, was about "dihydrogen monoxide," and it led some in the area to begin expressing concern over the local water quality....The Bonita Springs News-Press reported radio management saying the joke stepped over the line when it caused public concern.
"It is one thing when radio stations change their format or other crazy things they do," the general manager for the country music station, Tony Renda, told the News-Press. "But you are messing with one of the big three, food, water or shelter. They just went too far; I just knew I didn't like that."
The Lee County public utility began receiving calls from residents wondering if dihydrogen monoxide coming out of their faucet was safe to drink and use.
"My understanding is it is a felony to call in a false water quality issue," Diane Holm, a public information officer with Florida Department of Health in Lee County, said, according to the News-Press.
Well the water supply is full of dihydrogen monoxide and kills hundreds of people a year. Clearly we must pass laws outlawing it. For the children.
Flipper Was a Horn Dog i.e. a Typical Dolphin Bastard
As for the fabled orgy, it turns out that dolphins are one of the most promiscuous animals on the planet. They don't mate just for reproduction. They enjoy sex. It's a social binder for them, like a handshake. On a good day a dolphin can have sex 50 times. Dolphins do it with everyone . . . old, young, big, small, even family members. Homosexual behavior is common, as is masturbation; dolphins have even been known to make advances at human beings. The dark side of the dolphin-the turd in the superpod-is that sometimes dolphin sex can be violent and nonconsensual. Rape and gang rape happens. We did not see any of that, though. This seemed to be a law-abiding lot.
Always beware of a dolphin 'handshake'.
And here's the parody of the Star Spangled Banner.
Stretching Before Exercise Considered Harmful
The numbers, especially for competitive athletes, are sobering. According to their calculations, static stretching reduces strength in the stretched muscles by almost 5.5 percent, with the impact increasing in people who hold individual stretches for 90 seconds or more. While the effect is reduced somewhat when people's stretches last less than 45 seconds, stretched muscles are, in general, substantially less strong.
They also are less powerful, with power being a measure of the muscle's ability to produce force during contractions, according to Goran Markovic, a professor of kinesiology at the University of Zagreb and the study's senior author. In Dr. Markovic and his colleagues' re-analysis of past data, they determined that muscle power generally falls by about 2 percent after stretching.
I've seen similar studies that found that stretching before a workout also doesn't seem to reduce injuries either. But at this point stretching is so ingrained in me that it's really a psychological preparation that would be hard to give up.
In the big scheme humans are mere mayflies whose time is quick and brief.
The Newest Protected Minority in England: Goths
A British police force on Thursday began recording attacks on goths and punks as "hate crimes" similar to those suffered by people targeted because of their race, religion or sexual orientation.
Police in Manchester, northwest England, said the new policy would allow them to better protect goths, easily identified on the streets by their black clothes and pale make-up, and members of other "alternative sub-cultures".
Well at this rate they're going to start making it an offense to give scandis an old fashioned 'curb dance'.
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Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 04, 2013 06:28 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: Hopeless at April 04, 2013 06:28 PM (M3WNi)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 04, 2013 06:32 PM (pxDth)
Sure Susan A Patton, and yet it was you that wrote something that fucking stupid.
Posted by: lowandslow at April 04, 2013 06:33 PM (Fz2C7)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 04, 2013 06:33 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: fixerupper at April 04, 2013 06:34 PM (9MmIU)
Posted by: Elizabethe at April 04, 2013 06:34 PM (qPCAa)
My son watched Red Dawn (the original not the PoS remake) with me yesterday afternoon. He loved it, except the end, which made him sad. I don't blame him, the darn swingset scene always chokes me up too. I can't believe that movie was rated pg-13 though, seemed more bloody than I remembered since I was watching with my kid.
I cannot wait until he is old enough to start watching R movies, we will be starting with Die Hard naturally. (of course I can't decide what age I will feel like R movies are OK)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 04, 2013 06:34 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at April 04, 2013 06:35 PM (payko)
Posted by: Clueless in Jersey at April 04, 2013 06:35 PM (MG9++)
Posted by: Elizabethe at April 04, 2013 06:35 PM (qPCAa)
Posted by: lowandslow at April 04, 2013 06:35 PM (Fz2C7)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 04, 2013 06:36 PM (g8woF)
Posted by: joey tribbiani talking to Susan A. Patton at April 04, 2013 06:36 PM (VwC86)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 04, 2013 06:36 PM (GVxQo)
Posted by: zsasz at April 04, 2013 06:37 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 04, 2013 06:37 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: Joejm65 at April 04, 2013 06:37 PM (UZuc4)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 04, 2013 06:37 PM (6rcHp)
Posted by: derit at April 04, 2013 06:37 PM (I88Jc)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 04, 2013 06:37 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Flipper at April 04, 2013 06:37 PM (payko)
Reflect upon such Princeton alumnae as Michelle Obama and Sonia Sotomayor.
True intellectual powerhouses, no?
This market from which such women are being priced out. It is a flea market, yes?
By the way, those of you who have not read Michelle Obama's "senior thesis" from Princeton, you really should. Copies are floating around the Web. All of the entitled, indignant racial grievance crap you would expect, plus laughable spelling and grammatical errors which wouldn't even have passed muster at a good high school of the era.
Posted by: torquewrench at April 04, 2013 06:38 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 04, 2013 10:34 PM (0zDXv)
here, too, jersey boy . . . i got my fluffy jammies on, it's cold and i'm tired and i had to bite my damn tongue after expressing concern for someone who posted a pity party and is suffering from a) some heinous disease, b) the heartbreak of psoriasis or c) hemorrhoid flareup. fuckin' asswipe. (not you, i was just irked by the whole thing and, of course, my life is all skittles-shitting unicorns, as always.)
Posted by: Peaches at April 04, 2013 06:38 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 04, 2013 06:38 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: logprof at April 04, 2013 06:38 PM (+iA5G)
Posted by: Some Guy Living Under a Rock at April 04, 2013 06:38 PM (csi6Y)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 04, 2013 06:39 PM (GVxQo)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 04, 2013 06:39 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: somebody else, not me at April 04, 2013 06:40 PM (29vnO)
Posted by: Peaches at April 04, 2013 10:38 PM (8lmkt)
I like the green ones...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 04, 2013 06:40 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Dolphin Amanda Marcotte at April 04, 2013 06:40 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 06:40 PM (csi6Y)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 04, 2013 06:40 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: AltonJackson at April 04, 2013 06:41 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by:Seamus Muldoon at April 04, 2013 10:37 PM (pxDth)
IF that blowhole locks up and they take a long dive, it'll be a fun time.
After you're dead, they'll be laughing over your limp body.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at April 04, 2013 06:41 PM (Kpn/z)
Posted by: BignJames at April 04, 2013 06:42 PM (H9MGI)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 04, 2013 06:42 PM (g8woF)
Friendly AoSHQ Public Service Announcement: Buzzed commenting is drunk commenting. If you are going to be drinking tonight, please use a designated commenter.
That is all. Carry on.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 04, 2013 06:43 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 06:43 PM (csi6Y)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 04, 2013 06:44 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 06:44 PM (csi6Y)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at April 04, 2013 06:44 PM (Kpn/z)
Posted by: Lemmenkainen, Freelance Warlord at April 04, 2013 06:44 PM (K1JW0)
Posted by: Mindy at April 04, 2013 06:44 PM (wk9P4)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 04, 2013 06:44 PM (VwC86)
Posted by: L, elle at April 04, 2013 06:45 PM (0PiQ4)
You go first. See how it works out.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at April 04, 2013 06:45 PM (Kpn/z)
Posted by: mpfs, exhausted assault fishstick at April 04, 2013 06:45 PM (TCy/B)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 10:43 PM (csi6Y)
Testify, brother.
Posted by: George Costanza at April 04, 2013 06:45 PM (payko)
On the contrary, cold water is a known boner killer.
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 10:43 PM (csi6Y)
*********
But who would do that on porpoise?
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 04, 2013 06:46 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: derit at April 04, 2013 06:46 PM (I88Jc)
Posted by: Mindy at April 04, 2013 10:44 PM (wk9P4)
But that's not rape-rape... (I refuse to don the stinky sock, so you'll just have to pretend I did)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 04, 2013 06:46 PM (yh0zB)
http://tinyurl.com/cgufjfc
Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 04, 2013 10:39 PM (GVxQo)
--They used to be the Devil Rays, and Devil Rays don;t sting, do they?
Posted by: logprof at April 04, 2013 06:46 PM (+iA5G)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 04, 2013 06:47 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Peaches at April 04, 2013 06:47 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: L, elle at April 04, 2013 10:45 PM (0PiQ4)
Good to hear it, but if ya need some backup just say the word. I'm sure there's a moron/ette somewhere near.
*smacks* Seamus Muldoon
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 04, 2013 06:48 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Peaches at April 04, 2013 10:47 PM (8lmkt)
hahahahahaha! http://tinyurl.com/d2cdu89
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 04, 2013 06:50 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 04, 2013 10:44 PM (VwC86)
But they do seem to like us. What could that possibly mean?
Posted by: somebody else, not me at April 04, 2013 06:50 PM (29vnO)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 04, 2013 06:50 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 06:50 PM (/COnL)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 04, 2013 06:51 PM (yh0zB)
oh Joy. Daughter just informed me her history teacher is making them conduct a mock trial prosecuting Harry Truman for war crimes for dropping the bomb on the theory he did not have the authority to do so.
I asked her if war was declared. She admitted it was. I asked if Truman was CINC. She admitted he was. I asked her what she thought he was commander of....she replied the military. So therefore he had the authority to command the military to drop the bomb in a formally declared war.
I suspect her teacher thinks Truman had to ask the UN or some international body to do so.
I informed her that most historians agree that dropping the bomb shortened the war and saved at least 250,000 lives. She said I was picking on her. I replied I was not, but that her teacher was engaging in propaganda. The opposite of history, changing the facts to fit her political beliefs.
fuckin teacher
Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2013 06:51 PM (+afNf)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at April 04, 2013 06:52 PM (Zd/NW)
Posted by: zsasz at April 04, 2013 06:52 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 04, 2013 06:52 PM (5J54Q)
I thought these awful radio ads were local to my area. Unless you're a Beltway guy, I guess it's a national campaign.
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 06:52 PM (/COnL)
So rape is "normal" sexual activity since animals do it. Why then do we have laws against it?
Posted by: Mindy at April 04, 2013 10:44 PM (wk9P4)
so Letterman must be for it, since its what human's do
Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2013 06:53 PM (+afNf)
did y'all see the "North Korea has won the coin
toss" thing? google it, it's all over the place, made my fuckin' day
when teh bff emailed it to me earlier.
Posted by: Peaches at April 04, 2013 10:47 PM (8lmkt)
hahahahahaha! http://tinyurl.com/d2cdu89
Okay, LMFAO! I hope to believe it with TFG in office.
Posted by: Infidel at April 04, 2013 06:53 PM (gqEUi)
Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2013 10:51 PM (+afNf)
She could volunteer to be defense council and you could tell her everything she needs to know.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 04, 2013 06:53 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Lauren at April 04, 2013 06:54 PM (wsGWu)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 04, 2013 06:54 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 04, 2013 06:54 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 06:54 PM (csi6Y)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 04, 2013 06:54 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 04, 2013 06:55 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: Weirddave at April 04, 2013 06:55 PM (aH+zP)
Posted by: Whatev at April 04, 2013 06:55 PM (A7Wh1)
Posted by: Elizabethe at April 04, 2013 06:55 PM (qPCAa)
Oh Christ. Is she in high school?
You know, I grew up in Liberalsville Central in the late '90s, but I'll tell you that one of the great lucky breaks of my life was having a history teacher (who was insanely popular w/the students -- this was a magnet school) who in retrospect was clearly a closet conservative. His big focus for our senior year European (note: not 'world') history class? The evils of totalitarianism, from Soviet Russia to Nazi Germany. With readings from Richard Pipes, Donald Kagan, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Walter Lacquer, and Joachim Fest.
None of this namby-pamby "U.S. war crimes" bullshit. That guy quite literally inspired me.
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 06:56 PM (/COnL)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 04, 2013 06:56 PM (GVxQo)
kbdabear has great stories about Philly fans.
Posted by: fluffy at April 04, 2013 06:56 PM (z9HTb)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 06:57 PM (csi6Y)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 04, 2013 06:57 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 04, 2013 10:54 PM (GEICT)
We used to get free tickets to Jags home games if we showed up in uniform. Pretty cool of the Jags to do that, I thought.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 04, 2013 06:57 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Elizabethe at April 04, 2013 06:57 PM (qPCAa)
Posted by: mpfs, exhausted assault fishstick at April 04, 2013 06:58 PM (TCy/B)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 04, 2013 06:58 PM (5J54Q)
All of this is true -- McCartney still considers Pet Sounds to be one of the greatest albums ever released, and it directly inspired "Here, There And Everywhere" as well as Sgt. Pepper's.
The sad "what if" thing is that, if Brian Wilson had just sacked-up a bit and finished Smile back in early 1967 (it was literally 90% complete, with only some vocals and strings left to be added), it would have blown Sgt. Pepper's out of the water. The Beatles are the greatest band of all time, and Revolver may be the most perfect statement of '60s pop-rock ever created, but Smile? That music comes from another DIMENSION in terms of its inspiration.
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 06:59 PM (/COnL)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 06:59 PM (csi6Y)
Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2013 06:59 PM (+afNf)
yeah, history education in the schools is really starting to make me scream. My son had to research and defend the loyalist point of view in terms of the Revolutionary War. I wanted to go up to school and scream at the teachers "this is America, we won the war so STFU, if you want to defend the loyalists, move to England and see how well it turned out for them."
That's after the section in the history book where it uses the analogy that the patriots were like little kids who made a fuss about having to feed their babysitter when the British told them they had to quarter the British soldiers.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 04, 2013 06:59 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Roxanne at April 04, 2013 06:59 PM (cHRDM)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 04, 2013 07:00 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 10:56 PM (/COnL)
My HS history teacher was a WM in WW2. NOBODY acted up in her class. One of my favorite teachers, she opened up every sophomore class with "I not only teach history, I helped to make it." Inspiring teacher, unfortunately she's no longer with us. Also, found out my HS English teacher passed last week. They don't make them like that any more.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 04, 2013 07:00 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Lazarus at April 04, 2013 07:00 PM (q4ggw)
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 10:52 PM (/COnL)
********
Constant drumbeat of self-righteous do-gooder spots by the "Ad Council". Unplug your cell phone charger when the phone is not plugged in to "save energy"? And the stoopid one with the pirate telling you not to litter so that the oceans won't be befouled with Gaaaarrgh-bage? And my all time favorite, the sappy list of excuses for tweenieboppers not to sext nudie pictures of themselves to a creepy boyfriend?
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 04, 2013 07:00 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: Weirddave at April 04, 2013 07:00 PM (aH+zP)
Posted by: Lauren at April 04, 2013 07:01 PM (wsGWu)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 04, 2013 07:01 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 04, 2013 07:02 PM (5J54Q)
I cannot wait until he is old enough to start watching R movies, we will be starting with Die Hard naturally. (of course I can't decide what age I will feel like R movies are OK)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 04, 2013 10:34 PM (RZ8pf)
"Die Hard" may not be the best choice for a rated R first movie. I would suggest "Emmanuelle" for his first time.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at April 04, 2013 07:02 PM (Zd/NW)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 04, 2013 07:02 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 04, 2013 07:03 PM (VwC86)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 04, 2013 07:03 PM (5J54Q)
http://tinyurl.com/coofx66
Posted by: mpfs, exhausted assault fishstick at April 04, 2013 10:58 PM (TCy/B)
girl, those are stompy shoes!! very cute! not at all what I was expecting, but darn cute!
Posted by: Peaches at April 04, 2013 07:03 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian fka irishacres at April 04, 2013 07:04 PM (HVff2)
The '70's duds are known affectionately as the "Fashion Blackout".
And you may have noticed, they are BAAAACCCCKKKKK.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 04, 2013 07:04 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Mindy at April 04, 2013 07:04 PM (wk9P4)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 04, 2013 11:00 PM (pxDth)
I get a kick every time I hear that one here in Indiana. We're so close to the ocean.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 04, 2013 07:04 PM (smU88)
Posted by: Lauren at April 04, 2013 07:04 PM (wsGWu)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 07:04 PM (csi6Y)
Posted by: derit at April 04, 2013 07:04 PM (I88Jc)
Posted by: Todd A. at April 04, 2013 07:04 PM (xrGeT)
You know I wouldn't mind so much the whole "debate the opposite point of view" side of things if they actually learned basics like the first 10 amendments to the constitution, and maybe the 50 states, and stuff like that. Because researching and being able to argue the opposite point of view is a great skill to have. But, it doesn't seem grade appropriate.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 04, 2013 07:04 PM (RZ8pf)
epic, epic funny movie, you will laugh yourself sick. one of my all-time faves.
Posted by: Peaches at April 04, 2013 07:05 PM (8lmkt)
International Baccalaureate program, to be specific. At the time I was there, it was rated the #1 IB program in the entire United States. By pure luck, I happened to live 15 minutes away from the school. Best education I could've ever received, and it was a public school!
But yes, IB History was incredible, and still the way I think anyone should learn it. Junior year was basically Europe from the 1200s to 1789 (with a big focus on the Reformation, Thirty Years' War, and the Westphalian system), senior year had our first semester take you from the French Revolution through 1848 to German reunification and WWI, with second semester devoted to the Russian Revolution, the Weimar Years, Stalinist Russia, WWII, and the Cold War.
It was brazenly Eurocentric, and god love it. We dispensed with American History back in 10th grade (sophomore year)...took our AP exams and that was all.
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 07:05 PM (/COnL)
Posted by: Elizabethe at April 04, 2013 07:06 PM (qPCAa)
Posted by: L, elle at April 04, 2013 07:06 PM (0PiQ4)
Posted by: mpfs, exhausted assault fishstick at April 04, 2013 07:06 PM (TCy/B)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 04, 2013 07:07 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 04, 2013 11:04 PM (smU8
******
Hell, I'm in Colorado. I couldn't get a discarded potato chip bag to the ocean if I fired it with a potato cannon!
And believe me, I've tried.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 04, 2013 07:07 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: mpfs, exhausted assault fishstick at April 04, 2013 07:08 PM (TCy/B)
I sure was glad when she found the humor in that.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 04, 2013 07:08 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Lauren at April 04, 2013 07:09 PM (wsGWu)
Bernard Goldberg was on O'Reilly tonight and stated that the people should not be allowed to vote on samesexmarriage. This is because the people would vote the wrong way. To prove this he stated that the people actually voted for George Wallace and therefore cannot be trusted.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 04, 2013 07:09 PM (smU88)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 04, 2013 07:09 PM (GEICT)
The Trial of Harry S Truman
It has been charged by the prosecution that US President Harry S Truman, acting as commander-in-chief of American forces in World War II, committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in ordering attacks with nuclear weapons against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August, 1945.
The indictment alleges that Truman used excessive force and violated the principle of jus in bello (justice in war) by deliberately targeting civilians and non-military targets with weapons of mass destruction.
Procedure:
· Each side in the case will have one hour to make its case before an impartial court. Opening and closing statements will be included in this time frame. Truman will be judged as if he were in a civil court, i.e. by a preponderance of evidence for or against him.
· After brief opening statements, the prosecution will call as many witnesses from the list below as time will allow. After the witnesses present their testimony, the defense will be allowed a brief (one question) cross-examination.
· After a brief recess, the defense will call its witnesses from the list below and testimony, the defense will be allowed a brief (one
question) cross-examination. If it chooses to do so, the defense may call Harry S Truman as a witness, but this is not required. The court will then adjourn and the judge will consider the evidence and deliver its verdict.
· Witnesses will be questioned and cross-examined by the chief prosecutor and defense counsel or by someone designated by them. The assignment of members of the class to the role of witnesses will also be the responsibility of chief prosecutor and defense counsel. With the exception of Harry S Truman, each member of the class will be assigned the role of a witness. Truman will be assigned only if the defense chooses to have him testify. Additional witnesses can be added upon approval by the court.
· Each side will present to the court a five-page typed deposition of the testimony of each witness. These depositions will be typed and delivered to the court at a date to be announced in class.
· The testimony given by witnesses must be factual and relevant to the case.
this is apparently a very popular exercise. There are a billion websites for it. fuckin teachers
Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2013 07:10 PM (+afNf)
I got a very odd look.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 04, 2013 11:09 PM (GEICT)
As well you should have. The proper phrase is "microwave".
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 04, 2013 07:10 PM (yh0zB)
Of course our society isn't designed to produce self sufficient people at 18 anymore, at 18 men are likely to be even more immature then women, and putting off a career for children is widely derided by society.
Still, from what I have seen, people who start later in a career and then stick to it seem to do better then people who take breaks from it if you are talking about the same time frame either way.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2013 07:11 PM (zPVBH)
Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2013 07:11 PM (+afNf)
Can't imagine not stretching before exercise, I got all the flexibility of a starched 2x4 unless I do. Takes half the day before I can move as I like to.
Bitch getting old.
Posted by: irongrampa at April 04, 2013 07:11 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: Andy at April 04, 2013 07:12 PM (OZPoa)
My wife asked me just last week, "Why is it that every other word out of your mouth is now Eff this, or GD that?!?!"
I replied, "The results of a certain election last fall, but mostly a certain blog that I visit."
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 04, 2013 07:12 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: irongrampa at April 04, 2013 11:11 PM (SAMxH)
Beats the alternative.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 04, 2013 07:13 PM (yh0zB)
"Die Hard" may not be the best choice for a rated R first movie. I would suggest "Emmanuelle" for his first time.
___
I'd go with gladiator movies.
Posted by: Safe Schools Czar Jennings at April 04, 2013 07:13 PM (zPVBH)
Posted by: Truman North at April 04, 2013 07:13 PM (IgUpr)
Posted by: Cthulhu's tantalizing tentacles of titillation at April 04, 2013 07:13 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 04, 2013 07:13 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: NCKate at April 04, 2013 07:13 PM (J/Yaf)
Posted by: moki at April 04, 2013 07:13 PM (SdetR)
Posted by: irongrampa at April 04, 2013 11:11 PM (SAMxH)
*******
Tell me about it. I have to do 10 minutes of stretching before I pass gas.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 04, 2013 07:13 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: DC in Towson, unemployed assault human at April 04, 2013 07:13 PM (jIaZt)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at April 04, 2013 07:14 PM (w00oE)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 04, 2013 07:14 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Lauren at April 04, 2013 07:14 PM (wsGWu)
Posted by: Truman North at April 04, 2013 11:13 PM (IgUpr)
I like the way you think.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 04, 2013 07:14 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2013 07:15 PM (+afNf)
I replied, "The results of a certain election last fall, but mostly a certain blog that I visit."
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 04, 2013 11:12 PM (4Mv1T)
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Did she reply "Eff that GD blog"?
Posted by: Craig Poe at April 04, 2013 07:15 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: Ed Anger at April 04, 2013 07:15 PM (tOkJB)
Jesus fucking wept.
Seriously, you should have your daughter walk into the "courtoom" with a copy of Richard B. Frank's Downfall, slam it down authoritatively on the podium, and shout "I ENTER THIS INTO THE OFFICIAL RECORD. READ THE FUCKING BOOK. CASE CLOSED, BITCHES."
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 07:16 PM (/COnL)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 04, 2013 07:16 PM (NLH1M)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 04, 2013 07:16 PM (l3vZN)
Please feel free to go fuck yourself, bitch.
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at April 04, 2013 11:14 PM (w00oE)
not with your dick
jus jokin
Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2013 07:17 PM (+afNf)
I tried jogging last month but it just wasn't working out so I gave it up. Kept spilling my scotch.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 04, 2013 07:17 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: Weirddave at April 04, 2013 11:00 PM (aH+zP)
Reminds me of the time I was coaching in Omaha, and Eddie Shore sent me a guy who was a terrible masturbater. Damn if he wouldn't commit a penalty just so he could get in the penalty box and then fap fap fap.
Posted by: Joe McGrath, GM, Charlestown Chiefs at April 04, 2013 07:17 PM (Zd/NW)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 04, 2013 07:17 PM (GEICT)
Now I have to have physical therapy for both shoulders the next six weeks.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 04, 2013 07:17 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: AltonJackson (new content up) at April 04, 2013 07:18 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Lauren at April 04, 2013 07:18 PM (wsGWu)
Posted by: Lauren at April 04, 2013 11:14 PM (wsGWu)
When we were in Greece for a port visit one a bunch of us were in this little dive bar and some Phillipino hooker was trying to get one of the guys to take her upstairs. When he continuously refused she got up in his face and screamed "YOU SACK O DICKS!!!" (we figured out later she was accusing him of being a homo, IE you suck a dick). We thought that was the funniest thing we ever heard, so from there on out that was the insult of choice.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 04, 2013 07:18 PM (yh0zB)
Uh yes, a woman surrounded by a large concentration of rich and motivated men (Hey they aren't all occutards) would be dumb not to make a move. I went to a christian college where there were twice as many women than men, never found a wife. My dad always mocks me, "Hey son you had your chance, you were fishing in the pacific now your at China Lake."
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at April 04, 2013 07:18 PM (oBhEo)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 04, 2013 07:19 PM (mN8D3)
Oh, swell... now someone is pointing that out....
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 07:19 PM (aDwsi)
Me? My attitude is fuck 'em, they started it. But it's a much stickier wicket (along with Dresden in the European theater) than Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 07:20 PM (/COnL)
Posted by: L, elle at April 04, 2013 07:20 PM (0PiQ4)
Posted by: derit at April 04, 2013 07:20 PM (I88Jc)
Stalin knew about the bomb before Vice President and President Truman did. The bomb was made on FDR's watch; FDR should be facing these charges and not my client. If you give an atomic weapon to a chimp and he kills people, do you blame the chimp or the guy who gave him the weapon? As FDR is dead, I suggest you charge Eleanor in his place.
The Imperial Japanese government and god-emperor are indirectly responsible for all the deaths by having started the war in the first place. They also didn't surrender immediately after the first bomb was dropped making them directly responsible for all the deaths in the second bombing. So all if not at least half the charges should be dropped.
Posted by: andycanuck at April 04, 2013 07:20 PM (VwC86)
Posted by: Elizabethe at April 04, 2013 07:20 PM (qPCAa)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 04, 2013 07:21 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: BignJames at April 04, 2013 07:21 PM (H9MGI)
Oh wait I forgot, he's liberal Jesus.
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 07:21 PM (/COnL)
This Princeton advice does;t make much sense. The same dudes will be available after graduation. No guy who just graduated Princeton (or anywhere else for that matter) is dying to get married.
Besides if you can't land a Princeton dude, there's always a Dartmouth or Cornell dude who'll do.
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 04, 2013 07:21 PM (HDgX3)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 07:22 PM (csi6Y)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 04, 2013 07:22 PM (5J54Q)
As Princeton women, we have almost priced ourselves out of the market. Simply put, there is a very limited population of men who are as smart or smarter than we are.
I used to utter a sentence similar to this after coming up empty on a day trout fishing. "Simply put, there is a very limited population of fish worth catching in this river," I would say.
Turns out I just wasn't a very good fisherman.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 04, 2013 07:22 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2013 07:23 PM (+afNf)
Posted by: RWC at April 04, 2013 07:23 PM (sqp6o)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 04, 2013 07:23 PM (RZ8pf)
MINOR lifting, TR? You sure?
I still lift, even at my advanced age, not a very large weight, but it keeps me quite limber.
Like everyone else who lifts or lifted, I found if you stop, the definition goes to hell--so you're in effect trapped into it.
Posted by: irongrampa at April 04, 2013 07:23 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at April 04, 2013 07:23 PM (sQ0LB)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 04, 2013 07:23 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Harry "Ike Turner' Truman at April 04, 2013 07:23 PM (29vnO)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 04, 2013 07:23 PM (mN8D3)
Fat Man and Little Boy were infinitely worse than the thousands of incendiaries
which preceded them which did much more damage and killed more people.
Just because
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 04, 2013 07:24 PM (smU88)
Posted by: moki at April 04, 2013 07:24 PM (SdetR)
Posted by: DC in Towson, unemployed assault human at April 04, 2013 07:24 PM (jIaZt)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hBP15lRprPs
Posted by: Katfish at April 04, 2013 07:24 PM (Nx5wc)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 07:24 PM (csi6Y)
Posted by: RWC at April 04, 2013 07:24 PM (sqp6o)
Posted by: EROWMER at April 04, 2013 07:24 PM (kxlCQ)
Posted by: Infidel at April 04, 2013 07:25 PM (gqEUi)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 07:25 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: mpfs, exhausted assault fishstick at April 04, 2013 07:26 PM (TCy/B)
Posted by: Lazarus at April 04, 2013 07:26 PM (q4ggw)
http://pxlpl.us/5cj2
Posted by: DC in Towson, unemployed assault human at April 04, 2013 11:24 PM (jIaZt)
Wow, that's an impressive...smile...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 04, 2013 07:26 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 04, 2013 07:27 PM (mN8D3)
Posted by: Mindy at April 04, 2013 07:27 PM (wk9P4)
Posted by: DC in Towson, unemployed assault human at April 04, 2013 07:28 PM (jIaZt)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 04, 2013 07:28 PM (VwC86)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 04, 2013 07:29 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: EROWMER at April 04, 2013 11:24 PM
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I was doing some heavy-ish yard work for an elderly couple down the street. A neighbor came over and asked if he could help. Along the line, he mentioned that he was a lawyer. I told him that was somewhat risky to tell me that while I had an axe in my hand..
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 07:29 PM (aDwsi)
Or from another side FDR for his secret, "illegal" war in the Atlantic in 1940?
I do get a kick out of the fact that in the 1940 election FDR claimed he would "not send American boys into any foreign wars"...while already attacking the German navy.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2013 07:29 PM (zPVBH)
I had to go look your name up. Nice choice. 
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 04, 2013 07:29 PM (5J54Q)
I was inspired by the teacher I've already mentioned to major in 20th-century German and Russian history (i.e. Nazi & Soviet), so that's clearly my 'favorite' era. I use scare-quotes because...yeah, it's kind of a downer. I definitely lean towards the Russian side, even though I have no real command of Russian but can speak German. In any event, I could talk for hours about the confluences and divergences between Soviet Communism, Fascism, and Nazism (hint: practically nobody outside the scholarly realm really gets it right, though Jonah Goldberg came *close* in Liberal Fascism). The genesis of modern-day anti-Semitism and its uses in both regimes was a key subset-focus of mine.
As for non-modern history? Much later in undergrad I became deeply interested in EARLY Roman history (i.e. not the more famous late Republic/early Empire stuff most people know, e.g. Cicero, Cato, Caesar, Augustus, etc...but rather the speculative reconstructive history of the pre-Punic War era). Now I'm something close to an expert at it. In post-Roman Europe, the other era I'm drawn to has always been the Thirty Years' War. Sheer fucking Germany-depopulatin' chaos!
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 07:29 PM (/COnL)
I would make it my life's goal to meet the fine gentlemen who frequent this establishment and find my soulmate.
Posted by: Mindy at April 04, 2013 11:27 PM (wk9P4)
If if if. If flies carried 45's frogs wouldn't fuck with them.
(I hope you know I'm just poking the bear here)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 04, 2013 07:30 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: moki at April 04, 2013 07:30 PM (SdetR)
Posted by: RWC at April 04, 2013 07:30 PM (sqp6o)
"Here is another truth that you know, but nobody is talking about. As freshman women, you have four classes of men to choose from. Every year, you lose the men in the senior class, and you become older than the class of incoming freshman men. So, by the time you are a senior, you basically have only the men in your own class to choose from, and frankly, they now have four classes of women to choose from."
"Is this fair for women? Nope - not at all. But then sometimes Mother Nature is just a flat-out sexist bitch."
How is this unfair? A pretty young woman is like a minor celebrity. She has potential mates available to her that are close to her age and older. As she ages, her available pool of mates shrinks.
A young man has the opposite experience. He has potential mates available to him that are close to his age and younger. As he ages, his available pool of mates grows.
Women are complaining it's unfair they've lost the options men never had.
Women complaining; what's new about that?
Posted by: Frankly at April 04, 2013 07:30 PM (8qDMG)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 04, 2013 07:31 PM (VwC86)
Here's one for all you in flyover country-
http://tinyurl.com/yfut3wt
Granddad grew the dry land wheat
Stood on his own two feet
His mind got incomplete and they put in the home
Daddy's cotton grows so high
Sucks the water table dry
Rolling sprinklers circle round
Bleedin' it to the bone
And I won't be here when it comes a day
It all dries up and blows away
I'd hang around just to see
But they never had much use for me in Levelland
/lyrics by Robert Earl Keen
sung by James McMurtry
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 04, 2013 07:31 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 07:31 PM (aDwsi)
Your daughter needs to learn four important lessons about school:
(a) Many teachers/professors are interested only in forcing their ideology on her;
(b) They have no interest whatsoever in her contradicting or challenging them;
(c) They'll petulantly mark her down if she attempts such things;
(d) She needs to learn to obediently parrot their crap while quietly laughing at them.
This is all very unfortunate, but nevertheless true. However, one thing that makes this pill slightly less bitter is that once one has learned how to flatter lefty educators, they can be some of the easiest A grades around.
Actual learning? She will have to get that somewhere other than school.
"I informed her that most historians agree that dropping the bomb shortened the war and saved at least 250,000 lives."
If her teacher was at all interested in debating the facts, which her teacher is not (see point (b) above), a good starting point would be D.M. Giangreco's _Hell To Pay_, which is an absolutely meticulous historical survey of what a giant bloodbath an invasion of the Japanese home islands would have been.
Expect any such recitation of the facts to be greeted with a C grade.
Posted by: torquewrench at April 04, 2013 07:31 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2013 07:32 PM (+afNf)
Posted by: Unit 731 at April 04, 2013 07:32 PM (cHRDM)
Posted by: DC in Towson, unemployed assault human at April 04, 2013 07:32 PM (jIaZt)
Posted by: Donna V. at April 04, 2013 07:32 PM (R3gO3)
Posted by: Mindy at April 04, 2013 07:33 PM (wk9P4)
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The list of atrocities is beyond the comprehension of contemporary liberals.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 07:33 PM (aDwsi)
More fun facts in the book
Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversityhttp://tinyurl.com/c7zpwk5
Posted by: Hepcat at April 04, 2013 07:34 PM (nPbm2)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 04, 2013 07:34 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: moki at April 04, 2013 07:34 PM (SdetR)
Had a buddy that had to stretch before running. This one time, a sabre-tooth tiger jumped out and the dude was like, "Hold on a second, kitty-cat, got to stretch." Needless to say, he wound being the cat's dinner. I always found it better to stretch after I got to safety.
Posted by: Caveman at April 04, 2013 07:35 PM (RxLT6)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 04, 2013 07:35 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian fka irishacres at April 04, 2013 07:35 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: DC in Towson, unemployed assault human at April 04, 2013 07:36 PM (jIaZt)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 04, 2013 07:36 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2013 11:10 PM (+afNf)
Very simple.... argue that this court has no jurisdiction, as ONLY the Senate may put the President on Trial... its called an impeachment.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2013 07:37 PM (lZBBB)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 04, 2013 07:37 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 04, 2013 07:38 PM (mN8D3)
Posted by: DC in Towson, unemployed assault human at April 04, 2013 07:38 PM (jIaZt)
I tried jogging last month but it just wasn't working out so I gave it up. Kept spilling my scotch.
Camelback.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 04, 2013 07:38 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 04, 2013 07:38 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: derit at April 04, 2013 07:38 PM (I88Jc)
Posted by: somebody else, not me at April 04, 2013 07:39 PM (29vnO)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 04, 2013 07:40 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2013 07:40 PM (+afNf)
How does the douche on MS-NBC feel about that?
Posted by: fluffy at April 04, 2013 07:40 PM (z9HTb)
Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2013 11:10 PM (+afNf)
OH.. yeah... and as its a criminl proceeding, the standard is not "a preponderence of evidence', but beyond a reasonable doubt....
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2013 07:40 PM (lZBBB)
The stretching studies contradict an article I read in the WSJ shortly before the Super Bowl, which said the SF Giants extensive stretching regimen was one reason they had far fewer injuries than any other NFL team. It said that men, even pro football players tend to blow off stretches, but other teams were starting to copy what the Giants were doing.
Stretching seems to work best as an exercise itself. Do it separately from the intensive exercise.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 04, 2013 07:40 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 07:40 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: speedster1 at April 04, 2013 07:41 PM (yeM7r)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channeling Breitbart at April 04, 2013 07:41 PM (nUH8H)
Posted by: L, elle at April 04, 2013 07:41 PM (0PiQ4)
Posted by: DC in Towson, unemployed assault human at April 04, 2013 07:41 PM (jIaZt)
Posted by: Friendly Teachers Union Local 208 at April 04, 2013 07:41 PM (wsGWu)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 04, 2013 07:42 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: RWC at April 04, 2013 07:42 PM (sqp6o)
"His big focus for our senior year European (note: not 'world') history class? The evils of totalitarianism, from Soviet Russia to Nazi Germany. With readings from Richard Pipes, Donald Kagan, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Walter Lacquer, and Joachim Fest."
What a great class. I doubt most public school "social studies" teachers today would even recognize the names of those authors, much less teach them.
Posted by: Donna V. at April 04, 2013 07:42 PM (R3gO3)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 11:40 PM (aDwsi)
I drive through Raleigh in the left lane with the hammer down.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 04, 2013 07:42 PM (yh0zB)
Speaking of history, it's time for bed and I always like to go to sleep listening to 'Ancient Aliens.'
As a bonus history class exercise...
If Ronald Reagan and America threw out the welcome mat and allowed unlimited Mexican immigration in the 1980's, how would Taco Bell's current menu be different?
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at April 04, 2013 07:43 PM (AC0lD)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 04, 2013 07:43 PM (l3vZN)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 04, 2013 11:34 PM (5J54Q)
*******
There ain't enough ValuRite on the planet to induce me to do karaoke...but if there were, I would want it to be in Oklahoma.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 04, 2013 07:43 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: Sir Mix-A-Lot at April 04, 2013 07:43 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channeling Breitbart at April 04, 2013 07:44 PM (nUH8H)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 04, 2013 07:44 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 04, 2013 11:34 PM (5J54Q)
*******
There ain't enough ValuRite on the planet to induce me to do karaoke...but if there were, I would want it to be in Oklahoma. Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 04, 2013 11:43 PM
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My g-grandfather was in OK while it was still a territory.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 07:45 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Bill Clinton at April 04, 2013 07:45 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 07:45 PM (csi6Y)
Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at April 04, 2013 07:46 PM (l3vZN)
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at April 04, 2013 11:43 PM (AC0lD)
There would be no burritos, obviously. A dirty gringo invention. And don't get me started on the gordita!
Posted by: Geraldo Rivera at April 04, 2013 07:46 PM (29vnO)
SeamusM -- do you know REK's song, "The Road Goes On Forever?"
*******
Shelley was a waitress, at the only joint in town
She had a reputation as a girl who got around.
Sonny was a loner, he was older than the rest.
He was gonna join the Navy, but he couldn't pass the test.
So he hung around town, he sold a little pot
But the law caught wind of Sonny and one day he got caught!
Oh yeah- I know 'The Road Goes On Forever'. Caught him live at a little honkytonk outside of San Antonio, and his live version of that song damn near goes on forever.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 04, 2013 07:47 PM (pxDth)
mock trial prosecuting Harry Truman for war crimes for dropping the bomb
on the theory he did not have the authority to do so."
The theory? Is that based on constitutionality, or for the hell of it were just gonna say he didn't have the authority. You could make that the case against any leader in wartime. Hey I have a "theory" that Obama should be charged for war crimes for his use of drones, will that work in a classroom.
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at April 04, 2013 07:47 PM (oBhEo)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 04, 2013 07:47 PM (yh0zB)
Do you mean the 49ers? Or the SF Giants, the baseball team? (not trying to be a dick, just asking) Posted by: DC in Towson, unemployed assault human at April 04, 2013 11:36 PM (jIaZt)
Oh, Jeez, thanks forthe correction. I meant the 49ers. Damn, that's something Biden would say. In fact, I think that's something Biden did say. Now I'm embarrassed.
Posted by: Donna V. at April 04, 2013 07:47 PM (R3gO3)
Posted by: Flipper is a Mac Daddy at April 04, 2013 07:47 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 04, 2013 07:48 PM (GEICT)
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Indian probably drunk on the cheap whiskey my g-grandfather was running in...
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 07:48 PM (aDwsi)
L'elle-
Mrs. M and I used to pop Robert Earl Keen CD in every time we made the drive from San Antonio back to Colorado.
"Snowin' on Raton" is one of our favorites.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 04, 2013 07:48 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at April 04, 2013 07:48 PM (d4p1q)
Posted by: gekkobear at April 04, 2013 07:49 PM (9Llm1)
Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at April 04, 2013 07:49 PM (l3vZN)
Posted by: Racial Grievances Studies Major at April 04, 2013 07:49 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 04, 2013 07:50 PM (VwC86)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at April 04, 2013 11:47 PM (oBhEo)
it seems the theory is that Truman violated the Laws of Armed Conflict (LOAC) by ordering an attack disproportional to the provocation, or something. Which is an insane topic to teach 7th graders, who are utterly unfamiliar with the concepts let alone the basic facts
Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2013 07:50 PM (+afNf)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 04, 2013 11:48 PM (GEICT)
I can assure you, sir, that you are most un-hip!
Posted by: Geraldo Rivera at April 04, 2013 07:50 PM (29vnO)
Posted by: Geraldo Rivera at April 04, 2013 11:46 PM (29vnO)
====================
Geraldo,
Since you are here..., I've always wanted to hear about your face implant. Buttocks, really? They used buttock flesh for that?
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 07:50 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at April 04, 2013 07:50 PM (d4p1q)
SeamusM -- do you know REK's song, "The Road Goes On Forever?"
Weren't there a couple of frat guys from Abilene who liked that song?
Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 04, 2013 07:51 PM (lr3d7)
If you're going to be a college educated woman, and are planning on marrying a college educated man... then trying to find one in COLLEGE seems better odds than at the local watering hole. That's not even complicated math. Posted by: gekkobear at April 04, 2013 11:49 PM (9Llm1)
That's what I thought. You need a Princeton degree to figure that one out?
Posted by: Donna V. at April 04, 2013 07:51 PM (R3gO3)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 04, 2013 07:51 PM (l3vZN)
Oh, swell... now someone is pointing that out....
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 11:19 PM (aDwsi)
No shit. I was a freshman in 1979-1980. Way to help out 23 years too late....
Posted by: Cthulhu's tantalizing tentacles of titillation at April 04, 2013 07:52 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at April 04, 2013 07:52 PM (AC0lD)
Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.
Posted by: irongrampa at April 04, 2013 07:52 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 04, 2013 07:53 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian fka irishacres at April 04, 2013 07:54 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at April 04, 2013 11:54 PM (d4p1q)
yes
Posted by: The Dude at April 04, 2013 07:54 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: Craig Poe at April 04, 2013 07:55 PM (BVkEs)
Oh, swell... now someone is pointing that out....
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 11:19 PM (aDwsi)
When I was a freshman, me and my buddies were always pissed that the freshman girls were being picked up by the upperclassmen. Didn't mind it when we became juniors and seniors.
/Circle of Life
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at April 04, 2013 07:55 PM (oBhEo)
Posted by: derit at April 04, 2013 07:55 PM (I88Jc)
Posted by: L, elle at April 04, 2013 07:56 PM (0PiQ4)
Posted by: The Poltical Hat at April 04, 2013 07:56 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2013 07:56 PM (+afNf)
Posted by: AltonJackson (new content up) at April 04, 2013 07:56 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 04, 2013 07:57 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: The Poltical Hat at April 04, 2013 07:57 PM (Vk2pI)
http://tinyurl.com/yfut3wt
Granddad grew the dry land wheat
Stood on his own two feet
His mind got incomplete and they put in the home
Daddy's cotton grows so high
Sucks the water table dry
Rolling sprinklers circle round
Bleedin' it to the bone
And I won't be here when it comes a day
It all dries up and blows away
I'd hang around just to see
But they never had much use for me in Levelland
/lyrics by Robert Earl Keen
sung by James McMurtry
wagon must've lost a wheel, or they lacked ambition, one
i do love this.
same kind of brevity
http://tinyurl.com/7zwqztv
Posted by: redclay at April 04, 2013 07:57 PM (/CogT)
Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2013 11:56 PM (+afNf)
only Yale stopped it and then brought it back last year
Posted by: The Dude at April 04, 2013 07:58 PM (vJdyz)
Since you are here..., I've always wanted to hear about your face implant. Buttocks, really? They used buttock flesh for that?
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 11:50 PM (aDwsi)
My friends call me Jerry. Well, ...actually, everybody calls me Jerry 'cause that's really my name. Anyway, it takes some really strong tissue to keep this 'stache aloft and this phony smile on my face, so buttock flesh it had to be. But not flabby white boy buttock. Just between us, this is J-Lo's ass on my face.
Posted by: Geraldo Rivera at April 04, 2013 07:59 PM (29vnO)
Posted by: Scarlett at April 04, 2013 07:59 PM (g3d2h)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian fka irishacres at April 04, 2013 08:01 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channeling Breitbart at April 04, 2013 08:01 PM (nUH8H)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 08:02 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2013 08:02 PM (+afNf)
Posted by: L, elle at April 04, 2013 08:02 PM (0PiQ4)
Posted by: Jake in Idaho at April 04, 2013 08:02 PM (zzeVM)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 08:03 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 05, 2013 12:03 AM
================
I have a feeling I'm going to regret that one...
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 08:04 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian fka irishacres at April 04, 2013 08:04 PM (HVff2)
Or from another side FDR for his secret, "illegal" war in the Atlantic in 1940?
I do get a kick out of the fact that in the 1940 election FDR claimed he would "not send American boys into any foreign wars"...while already attacking the German navy.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2013 11:29 PM (zPVBH)
SHUT UP!!!!! FDR WAS A SAINT!!!!! DON'T EVER SAY A BAD THING ABOUT HIM!!!! HE SAVED US FROM THE GREAT DEPRESSION JUST LIKE OBAMA!!!!!
Posted by: American Left at April 04, 2013 08:05 PM (Zd/NW)
Posted by: Steck at April 04, 2013 08:05 PM (RL7U1)
==========
Yeah..., I've probably scotched any job with the AF too.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 08:05 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at April 04, 2013 08:05 PM (DGIjM)
Jane Fonda (spit) adopted a black girl 30 years ago and hid it, was never photographed with her. She says now its because she was "afraid" of everybody else's racism. Projection much?
Posted by: thunderb at April 04, 2013 08:06 PM (+afNf)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 05, 2013 12:02 AM (aDwsi)
It's really the residual Ben Affleck that haunts me.
Posted by: Geraldo Rivera at April 04, 2013 08:06 PM (29vnO)
Posted by: Arbalest at April 04, 2013 08:06 PM (F7SXT)
goddamn lonely love, drive by truckers
Posted by: redclay at April 04, 2013 08:07 PM (/CogT)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channeling Breitbart at April 04, 2013 11:41 PM (nUH8H)
Thank you.
And good thoughts for Steevy, who used to do the invocation for the ONT regularly.
Posted by: Cthulhu's tantalizing tentacles of titillation at April 04, 2013 08:08 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: redclay at April 04, 2013 08:09 PM (/CogT)
Posted by: notsothoreau at April 04, 2013 08:09 PM (Lqy/e)
Posted by: RWC at April 04, 2013 08:09 PM (sqp6o)
Posted by: zeera at April 04, 2013 08:09 PM (3dXwx)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian fka irishacres at April 04, 2013 08:10 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 04, 2013 08:10 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: Adriane ... at April 04, 2013 08:11 PM (TvO05)
========
Point well made.
Time for me to clock out. Nite all.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 08:11 PM (aDwsi)
same kind of brevity
http://tinyurl.com/7zwqztv
Posted by: redclay at April 04, 2013 11:57 PM (/CogT)
******
I'd never heard of Drive By Truckers. I like it. To me it sounds sort of like a cross between Marshall Tucker Band and Townes VanZandt. Got that plaintive twang with a nice turn of phrase.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 04, 2013 08:12 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian fka irishacres at April 04, 2013 08:12 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: Jake in Idaho at April 04, 2013 08:12 PM (zzeVM)
>>>Well uh, damn. I knew it was complicated, but not that much. Shades of the Iraqi Sunni-Shi'ite divide there (insofar as virtually nobody knows their real history, although it's pretty basic). The endorsement of Goldberg is heartening, though, wasn't sure if his book was BS or not.
Jonah Goldberg's book (Liberal Fascism) is far, far smarter than its title, and I mean that in all seriousness. The title (and original cover, the one with the Hitler-mustached smiley face) is the sort of punchy Coulter-esque hackle-raising crap that probably was chosen by the publisher because it would tickle the erogenous zones of most hardcore conservatives, but it gives the false impression that the book is just another shallow polemic.
As I mentioned before, I have a significant scholarly background in this specific era (Nazism/Fascism/Communism/Progressivism), and so I was honestly expecting to be embarrassed by the butchery of 20th-century intellectual & political history from a guy on "my team." Instead, I was quite impressed by Goldberg. He DOES make some critical errors, IMO, but his treatment of the relationship between all these various movements is vastly more intelligent and nuanced that I ever would've expected.
The main error he makes (and a lot of other folks do too) is in straining too hard to associate Nazism as an intellectual/political current with Fascism (and therefore Progressivism). The existence of a historical and intellectual nexus between American progressivism and fascism of the Italian (i.e. quasi-futurist) variety is well-attested and damningly solid....but Nazism is really sui generis, and resists association with any other 20th-C. mass movement except, in certain practical respects, Soviet Communism.
Another bugaboo of mine is people who make the tired argument that Nazism was "actually" a left-wing movement because ZOMG they were National Socialists, dood! Nah. Hitler most definitely had the NSDAP, in its early years, employ a number of populist, left-wing slogans in his search for mass appeal...but aside from an inchoate populist-ish loathing for the societal elite (stemming largely from the resentments spawned by Hitler's declasse background), the Nazi program in practice wasn't classifiable as a "left" movement, really. Nor was it genetically of the European Right (which, note, is a vastly different proposition than American conservative/right politics, cf Hayek), although it existed slightly more comfortable with them.
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 08:14 PM (/COnL)
Posted by: Lazarus at April 04, 2013 08:14 PM (q4ggw)
Posted by: Jake in Idaho at April 04, 2013 08:14 PM (zzeVM)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 04, 2013 08:14 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Buzzion at April 04, 2013 08:15 PM (Zm+u8)
They call him Fapper, Fapper, faster than lightning ..
Posted by: kbdabear at April 04, 2013 08:15 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 04, 2013 08:16 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: fluffy at April 04, 2013 10:56 PM
The Eagles and Phillies used to play in Veterans Stadium, which was nicknamed "The Vet"
Appropriate as the place was full of sick animals
Posted by: kbdabear at April 04, 2013 08:16 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: L, elle at April 04, 2013 08:17 PM (0PiQ4)
I always wanted Hawkman to -- just once -- yank that goatee off Green Arrow's face.Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 04, 2013 08:17 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: The Poltical Hat at April 04, 2013 08:17 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Weirddave at April 04, 2013 08:17 PM (aH+zP)
Posted by: kbdabear at April 04, 2013 08:18 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: Buzzion at April 04, 2013 08:18 PM (Zm+u8)
They call him Fapper, Fapper, faster than lightning ..
Posted by: kbdabear at April 05, 2013 12:15 AM (mCvL4)
No one you see is smarter than he.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 04, 2013 08:18 PM (smU88)
Posted by: Craig Poe at April 04, 2013 08:18 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: redclay at April 04, 2013 11:57 PM (/CogT)
******
I'd never heard of Drive By Truckers. I like it. To me it sounds sort of like a cross between Marshall Tucker Band and Townes VanZandt. Got that plaintive twang with a nice turn of phrase.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 05, 2013 12:12 AM (pxDth)
Lynyyrdd Skynyrd with something to say. look up "never gonna change" or "outfit"
then there's Blackberry Smoke. they don't know much about no portry, but their liver probly hurts.
http://tinyurl.com/4mnnkr9
Posted by: redclay at April 04, 2013 08:18 PM (/CogT)
Posted by: the bearded UNIX god at April 04, 2013 08:18 PM (j3uk1)
Posted by: Adriane ... at April 05, 2013 12:11 AM (TvO05)
I don't do tequila much....I had a roommate in college who was involved (before we were roommates, but before the seal pup incident) in an episode with three other guys and seven bottles of tequila. I have never seen a guy with a more green complexion at any other time in my life.
Posted by: Cthulhu's tantalizing tentacles of titillation at April 04, 2013 08:18 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at April 04, 2013 08:18 PM (DGIjM)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 04, 2013 08:19 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: James Tiberius Kirk at April 04, 2013 08:19 PM (j3uk1)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at April 04, 2013 08:19 PM (d4p1q)
Posted by: L, elle at April 05, 2013 12:17 AM (0PiQ4)
i do wish you would.
Posted by: redclay at April 04, 2013 08:19 PM (/CogT)
Posted by: The Poltical Hat at April 04, 2013 08:20 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Craig Poe at April 04, 2013 08:21 PM (BVkEs)
That's probably good for a
Posted by: @PurpAv at April 04, 2013 08:21 PM (/gHaE)
Posted by: Adriane ... at April 04, 2013 08:22 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian fka irishacres at April 04, 2013 08:23 PM (HVff2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSTJJKffsPI
Please listen. Haunting. And what a brilliant (and quietly conservative) lyric.
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 08:23 PM (/COnL)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 04, 2013 08:23 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Adriane ... at April 04, 2013 08:23 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 04, 2013 08:24 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: Jake in Idaho at April 04, 2013 08:24 PM (zzeVM)
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 05, 2013 12:14 AM (/COnL)
Actually, the title comes from the Progressives themselves. Which you would have known if you had read the book carefully. And the rest of your comment just descends from there.
Posted by: Geraldo Rivera at April 04, 2013 08:25 PM (29vnO)
Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at April 04, 2013 11:46 PM (l3vZN)
Correction: My grandfather shot a white man when Oklahoma was still a territory.
Posted by: Eliszabeth Warren at April 04, 2013 08:25 PM (+9AX9)
Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at April 04, 2013 11:46 PM (l3vZN)
Correction: My grandfather shot a white man when Oklahoma was still a territory.
Posted by: Eliszabeth Warren at April 04, 2013 08:25 PM (+9AX9)
I told her not to get her panties in a bunch (for some reason or another), and she then proudly declared such a thing was never an option in the first place because she had declined to wear panties altogether.
Admittedly, it was kind of hot.
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 08:25 PM (/COnL)
Posted by: DC in Towson, unemployed assault human at April 04, 2013 08:26 PM (jIaZt)
Hah. Posted by: James Tiberius Kirk at April 05, 2013 12:19 AM
BTW, I follow your buddy on Twitter @WilliamShatner
He'll even take questions although hundreds of thousands of followers start tweeting stupid questions
A few asked him about Takei. If you could tweet a stone faced stare, he would have right there
Posted by: kbdabear at April 04, 2013 08:26 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: Craig Poe at April 05, 2013 12:18 AM (BVkEs)
"Horsepower" was popularized by James Watt as a way of comparing his steam engines with things people would be familiar with in the 1780's. Oddly, he totally sandbagged the measurement -- a one horsepower motor could produce 1 horsepower 24/7....while an actual horse would be lucky to produce 1 horsepower for five minutes.
Posted by: Cthulhu's tantalizing tentacles of titillation at April 04, 2013 08:26 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 04, 2013 08:26 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at April 04, 2013 08:27 PM (d4p1q)
Posted by: James Tiberius Kirk at April 04, 2013 08:28 PM (j3uk1)
No shit. I was a freshman in 1979-1980. Way to help out 23 years too late....
Posted by: Cthulhu's tantalizing tentacles of titillation at April 04, 2013 11:52 PM (kaalw)
Math major?
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at April 04, 2013 08:28 PM (Zd/NW)
Posted by: L, elle at April 04, 2013 08:29 PM (0PiQ4)
I replied with the link about rapist dolphins. She didn't know about it and thanked me for the nightmares she's going to have
Posted by: kbdabear at April 04, 2013 08:29 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 04, 2013 08:29 PM (mN8D3)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 04, 2013 08:29 PM (Z9EHQ)
Possibly experienced something similar in color with a roommate and a bottle of gin ...
How goes non tepid tequila twirling?
Posted by: Adriane ... at April 05, 2013 12:22 AM (TvO05)
I've decided it's a good time to clean out some of my wine collection. Sure, I like well-aged wines, but putting pinot's "off-limits" in the 90's is a little overdone in 2013. Maybe the cabs could go that long, but.....
Posted by: Cthulhu's tantalizing tentacles of titillation at April 04, 2013 08:30 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: The Dude at April 04, 2013 08:31 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: Jake in Idaho at April 04, 2013 08:31 PM (zzeVM)
Posted by: James Tiberius Kirk at April 04, 2013 08:31 PM (j3uk1)
Posted by: Eliszabeth Warren at April 05, 2013 12:25 AM (+9AX9)
427 My grandfather shot an Indian when Oklahoma was still a territory.Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at April 04, 2013 11:46 PM (l3vZN)Correction: My grandfather shot a white man when Oklahoma was still a territory.
Posted by: Eliszabeth Warren at April 05, 2013 12:25 AM (+9AX9)
ACE!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at April 04, 2013 08:31 PM (Zd/NW)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 04, 2013 08:32 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: L, elle at April 04, 2013 08:33 PM (0PiQ4)
Posted by: James Tiberius Kirk at April 04, 2013 08:34 PM (j3uk1)
Posted by: Jake in Idaho at April 04, 2013 08:34 PM (zzeVM)
No shit. I was a freshman in 1979-1980. Way to help out 23 years too late....
Posted by: Cthulhu's tantalizing tentacles of titillation at April 04, 2013 11:52 PM (kaalw)
Math major?
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at April 05, 2013 12:28 AM (Zd/NW)
Well, I'm basing the count on observations of my 29th birthday.....which have been happening for a while.
Posted by: Cthulhu's tantalizing tentacles of titillation at April 04, 2013 08:36 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channeling Breitbart at April 04, 2013 08:37 PM (nUH8H)
Posted by: Adriane ... at April 04, 2013 08:37 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Tuna at April 04, 2013 08:37 PM (M/TDA)
I replied with the link about rapist dolphins. She didn't know about it and thanked me for the nightmares she's going to have
Posted by: kbdabear at April 05, 2013 12:29 AM (mCvL4)
Hey, what are sisters for?
Posted by: Cthulhu's tantalizing tentacles of titillation at April 04, 2013 08:38 PM (kaalw)
Hey Kirk, got a studio publicity still for ya
pic.twitter.com/km5BiHzRBE
Posted by: kbdabear at April 04, 2013 08:38 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: SCOAMF Search Committee at April 04, 2013 08:38 PM (OtAWf)
Posted by: James Tiberius Kirk at April 04, 2013 08:40 PM (j3uk1)
Posted by: Craig Poe at April 04, 2013 08:40 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 08:41 PM (csi6Y)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 04, 2013 08:43 PM (mN8D3)
Posted by: Stateless Infidel
California and the Southwest were part of 'Mexico' so no difference.
What did I win?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 05, 2013 12:29 AM (mN8D3)
Taco Bell was founded by a 39-year-old Glen Bell in Downey, SoCal, the year I was born. He had previously opened various taco shops, starting in San Berdoo, for the previous 16 years.
Posted by: Cthulhu's tantalizing tentacles of titillation at April 04, 2013 08:43 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: The Poltical Hat at April 04, 2013 08:43 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at April 04, 2013 08:44 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: Jake in Idaho at April 05, 2013 12:34 AM
Ace's Tweets alone are worth getting on Twitter for
Posted by: kbdabear at April 04, 2013 08:45 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 04, 2013 08:45 PM (mN8D3)
Posted by: lou's a girl at April 04, 2013 08:48 PM (vgd4f)
http://youtu.be/fu6SUgFfiAA
Posted by: The Dude at April 04, 2013 08:48 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: kbdabear at April 04, 2013 08:48 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 04, 2013 08:49 PM (mN8D3)
Well, I'm basing the count on observations of my 29th birthday.....which have been happening for a while.
Posted by: Cthulhu's tantalizing tentacles of titillation at April 05, 2013 12:36 AM (kaalw)
Had a few of those myself.
I have to agree with Susan Patton though. Back in 83-84 as a freshman I couldn't get laid to save my life, and I was working hard at it. By my senior year? Rolling in the scamper. Surprisingly, it was mostly freshman too.
Then I got out in the real world, it was like my freshman year all over again, but good old Rosie Palm was there for me. And the backroom at the video store.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at April 04, 2013 08:51 PM (Zd/NW)
Posted by: lou's a girl at April 04, 2013 08:52 PM (vgd4f)
Posted by: Soona at April 04, 2013 08:52 PM (QUNIH)
Banco Basura, are you still here?
Did you get my reply email?
I hope I didn't delete you in the spam or something. Just hoping to keep in touch for a moron meet-up when you are in the SW area
Posted by: alamogordo at April 04, 2013 08:53 PM (HUTO5)
Posted by: lou's a girl
That can be read in a handful of ways.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 05, 2013 12:49 AM (mN8D3)
Is he a Carradine?
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at April 04, 2013 08:55 PM (Zd/NW)
But it's part of the initiation
Posted by: Moron Beta Frappa at April 04, 2013 08:56 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: lou's a girl at April 04, 2013 09:01 PM (vgd4f)
Posted by: Adriane ... at April 04, 2013 09:02 PM (TvO05)
Metro @Metroulas 6m
Hey! Japan is injecting its economy with a massive stimulus. I applaud this idea. I also think it's a good idea to mix bleach and ammonia.
Retweeted by Chris Loesch
William Shatner @WilliamShatner 35m
“@albertc9: @WilliamShatner They don't realize there are other times zones besides Eastern?” So I'm a victim of Time Zone snobbery?
Posted by: kbdabear at April 04, 2013 09:02 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: The Poltical Hat at April 04, 2013 09:02 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Adriane ... at April 04, 2013 09:03 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Cthulhu's tantalizing tentacles of titillation at April 04, 2013 09:03 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Keena at April 04, 2013 09:04 PM (M5qgo)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 04, 2013 09:04 PM (Z9EHQ)
I remembered that there was such a programme as "Hee Haw" but it was something we were supposed to be embarrassed about. Read about it in "Bloom County".
(my family moved here in '7
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at April 04, 2013 09:07 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: lou's a girl at April 04, 2013 09:07 PM (vgd4f)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 04, 2013 09:09 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Adriane ... at April 04, 2013 09:09 PM (TvO05)
http://www.arktos.com/julius-evola-fascism-viewed-from-the-right.html
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at April 04, 2013 09:10 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: The Ethanolic Hat at April 04, 2013 09:10 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 04, 2013 09:10 PM (Z9EHQ)
On the other hand, it was CBS who brought Rural back with The Dukes of Hazzard
Posted by: kbdabear at April 04, 2013 09:10 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: Adriane ... at April 04, 2013 09:12 PM (TvO05)
I remembered that there was such a programme as "Hee Haw" but it was something we were supposed to be embarrassed about. Read about it in "Bloom County".
(my family moved here in '7
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at April 05, 2013 01:07 AM (QTHTd)
Yeah, all-of-a-sudden television went from goofy hicks poking gentle fun at uptight city folks with a combination of deep traditional wisdom and tightly wound social circles.....to the Mary Tyler Moore Show and All in the Family.
Posted by: Cthulhu's tantalizing tentacles of titillation at April 04, 2013 09:13 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Mindy at April 04, 2013 09:13 PM (wk9P4)
Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2013 09:16 PM (d0Dmj)
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 04, 2013 09:16 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 04, 2013 09:17 PM (mN8D3)
Posted by: lou's a girl at April 04, 2013 09:20 PM (vgd4f)
Posted by: Cthulhu's tantalizing tentacles of titillation at April 04, 2013 09:25 PM (kaalw)
Watching the episode in which Hank Hill gets raped by the dolphin scarred me.
Posted by: shan at April 04, 2013 09:29 PM (WEamb)
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 04, 2013 09:31 PM (Vk2pI)
Well, male lions have been known to kill the offspring of females they intend to mate with---thereby focusing the female's attention on HIS offspring, and maximizing HIS contribution to the gene pool.
I guess that explains why so many Hispanic men kill their girlfriends' "children by another baby daddy".
So murdering those kids is no biggie, right?
Posted by: wholelottasplainin' at April 04, 2013 09:31 PM (WGOcs)
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 04, 2013 09:32 PM (Vk2pI)
I have spent too many hours in front of the tube. TV tube.
Posted by: shan at April 04, 2013 09:33 PM (WEamb)
Posted by: Adriane ... at April 04, 2013 09:33 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: lou's a girl at April 04, 2013 09:38 PM (vgd4f)
Posted by: Adriane ... at April 04, 2013 09:40 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: The Dude at April 04, 2013 09:44 PM (vJdyz)
http://tinyurl.com/chdftzf
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 04, 2013 09:48 PM (fGI92)
Posted by: Geraldo at April 04, 2013 09:52 PM (/gHaE)
Now I have to have physical therapy for both shoulders the next six weeks.
I hear ya! Been active all my 52 years, currently referee soccer, but played all manner of sports, cycled (touring up to 80m/day) and have never stretched before hand and the only time I was injured enough for PT was at the gym.
Posted by: The Manalo at April 04, 2013 09:54 PM (AWwDY)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 04, 2013 10:44 PM (VwC86)
===
yeah, but some porpoises are immortal. and you can't transport a mynah across state lines for an immortal porpoise.
Posted by: jc at April 04, 2013 09:58 PM (PlzOe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iYY2FQHFwE
:-)
Posted by: Adriane ... at April 05, 2013 01:33 AM (TvO05)
The funny thing is that I grew up as a liberal's liberal in liberal Liberalland. But rational examination of atheism shows it to be as much a profession of belief as a cult; rational attempts to "Question Authority" leads one to note the lockstep nature of Progressivists; rational consideration of freedom over one's self leads inevitably to the truism that having someone else pay for the consequences is criminal; and rational consideration of social justice shows that focusing on it is a damnable way to assure the downtrodden bloody-well stay that way.
Which leaves me in an odd spot. I'm not particularly religious -- and can go on for hours with criticisms of organized religions.....but won't, because they're trying, and are mainly good people. I hate the totalitarian Left....but hate Fred Upton and his lightbulb ban just as much -- if not more, for the hypocrisy. I'm a product of the "rural purge"....but I don't think of "The Jeffersons" or "MTM" or "MASH" as any place I'd really want to be. I could believe in "a hand-up rather than a hand-out" if I hadn't seen how that really worked.
And I look at the "Okie from Muskogee" video....and, y'know, it looks better to me today than it did when it was new.
Posted by: Cthulhu's tantalizing tentacles of titillation at April 04, 2013 10:00 PM (kaalw)
This is needlessly, almost willfully dumb. Yes, I fully understand that the original phrase, if we're stipulating, was first coined by a fringe Progressive (and Goldberg covers this in the book). And the general theme of Goldberg's book -- connecting modern Progressivism and statist-centered politics to the foul mutual spawning ground of American progressivism and continental Fascism -- is one I wholeheartedly approve of, which is precisely why I was so pleased to find out that he had done such a good job of untangling the rather complicated (and, at this late date, obscure & hyper-politicized) skeins of intellectual and political history.
But. But. My original post discussing the title was written strictly from the perspective of "judging a book by its cover," which frankly is what 99% of human beings do. Most people look at a title like that an instinctively think "oh yeah, right-wing bullshit Sean Hannity/Ann Coulter book. No more attention required." And that's a shame.
Honestly, some of y'all are way too fucking caught up in the whole "IMA BOLD TRUTH-TELLING SUMBITCH, YO" mindset to appreciate the importance of marketing. The points made in Goldberg's book are/were important. I really would have loved them to reach a more general, less ideologically committed audience. But they weren't gonna do that with a reflexively polarizing title like Liberal Fascism. To be fair, A Socio-Structural Analysis of the Interrelationship of Early Twentieth-Century Mass Political Movements wouldn't have grabbed many folks by the po-po either, so I guess the punchier title at least helped shift more units. But it did also have the unfortunate effect of hiving it off into a ghetto of "dumb political books," which is not what it deserved.
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 10:01 PM (/COnL)
Posted by: Arbalest at April 04, 2013 10:02 PM (F7SXT)
Posted by: a mindful weblyricsmith at April 04, 2013 10:03 PM (MBZW0)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/cck7d94
Started choking up on my drink. *hackhackcough*
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 04, 2013 10:04 PM (7um7O)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 05, 2013 02:01 AM (fGI92)
How's the future working out? Still stuck in Thursday. = P
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 04, 2013 10:06 PM (7um7O)
On track to finish on time the story of Sluggor. Not sure if I am still weilding purple prose or just overly descriptive but the writing continues. Should I expand further the description of Sluggor's modified lorica armor?
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 04, 2013 10:08 PM (fGI92)
Posted by: L, elle at April 04, 2013 10:08 PM (0PiQ4)
Posted by: Adriane ... at April 04, 2013 10:09 PM (TvO05)
Like the icy hand of death itself, I never sleep.
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 10:10 PM (/COnL)
Posted by: Adriane ... at April 04, 2013 10:11 PM (TvO05)
yeah, but some porpoises are immortal. and you can't transport a mynah across state lines for an immortal porpoise.
... works a bit better this way. Have a talk with your dialogue writer ...
Posted by: Arbalest at April 05, 2013 02:02 AM (F7SXT)
===
apparently all my dialogue writers know are the punch lines to old grade school puns.
Posted by: jc at April 04, 2013 10:11 PM (PlzOe)
Progressive-socialist ring-leaders, they are good at producing kudzu and nothing else. They speak of high and noble things but what grows from their poisoned rhetoric is nothing but death.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 04, 2013 10:12 PM (fGI92)
Posted by: L, elle at April 04, 2013 10:12 PM (0PiQ4)
Posted by: Adriane ... at April 04, 2013 10:12 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Adriane ... at April 04, 2013 10:15 PM (TvO05)
Music with me. can you?
Music? Always and forever. Name the band/artist/genre, I can splurge forth like a mighty river (as long as you keep yourself to before the '90s unless you're discussing Radiohead, Pavement or Blur).
Right now I'm mainlining a lot of 1966-67 Beach Boys straight into my skull like a heroin junkie.
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 10:18 PM (/COnL)
Posted by: Adriane ... at April 04, 2013 10:18 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Arbalest at April 04, 2013 10:19 PM (F7SXT)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 04, 2013 10:22 PM (mN8D3)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 04, 2013 10:22 PM (fGI92)
Posted by: &mpersand Front of Judea at April 04, 2013 10:23 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Arbalest at April 04, 2013 10:25 PM (F7SXT)
Posted by: L, elle at April 04, 2013 10:26 PM (0PiQ4)
You really have absolutely no insight whatsoever into what motivates someone like me, do you? It has nothing to do with vanity, or reflexive contrarianism, or the like. Those sorts of accusations really are nothing more than thinly-veiled attempts at delegitimizing whatever it is I say (as being borne of an affectation, rather than authentic conviction) without reaching the substance of my points. And that, in all honesty, is an intellectual Party Foul.
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 10:27 PM (/COnL)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 04, 2013 10:27 PM (fGI92)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 04, 2013 10:30 PM (mN8D3)
Give me something to listen to.
Hmm...right now I'm (as I said above) listening to the unreleased 'lost' Beach Boys masterpiece Smile on near-constant repeat. But that's actually pretty weird.
Okay, here's a recommendation. Fantastic work/sleep/groove/love music: Future Days, by classic '70s Krautrock band Can. You don't listen to this stuff for the lyrics, it's all about the peaceful, avant-garde groove and music.
And yes, the entire album IS available on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDuP72zL03U
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 10:30 PM (/COnL)
I trust the setup is superfluous.
Posted by: Cthulhu's tantalizing tentacles of titillation at April 04, 2013 10:32 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Adriane Loves the Classics but is Easily Confused at April 04, 2013 10:33 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 04, 2013 10:34 PM (fGI92)
Posted by: The Dude at April 04, 2013 10:35 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: Adriane, currently sock free, but wearing pants ... at April 04, 2013 10:35 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Arbalest at April 04, 2013 10:36 PM (F7SXT)
Posted by: Beagle at April 04, 2013 10:37 PM (sOtz/)
Posted by: Adriane, currently sock free, but wearing pants ... at April 04, 2013 10:37 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: L, elle at April 04, 2013 10:38 PM (0PiQ4)
The reason to care is because you care enough to go out of your way to make an otherwise erratic appearance in this thread to insult me. Whether you were aware of it or not at the time you made your original post, that was (unwittingly) evidence enough that you care. Otherwise why even say something? And don't even waste your time trying to sell me on the "because I just wanted to knock on you" line...that only begs the question: why do you care enough in the first place?
Look, the ultimate fact is: it's not that I DON'T care whether you ultimately can come around to a pluralistic understanding of where I come from on the conservative spectrum, it's that I CAN'T allow myself to care. If for no other reason than the nature of the internet means that there are certain people who have decided that the 'armor' they have to wear (for psychological reasons...the T.S. Eliot-style "face to meet the faces that you meet") is that of "I shall deem all those I disagree with to be PUSSIES and therefore project an air of manly strength" variety. You can't win over those sorts of folks...they have ego invested in this discourse that I simply don't.
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 10:39 PM (/COnL)
you, O.K.?
Until we meet again.
Eh. Been better, been worse.
'Til tomorrow. Enjoy...it's great music.
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 10:40 PM (/COnL)
Adriane, you are tackling the Camp NaNoWriMo challenge also?
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 04, 2013 10:41 PM (fGI92)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 05, 2013 02:34 AM (fGI92)
===
and here I was thinking it had something to do with stompy boots.
Posted by: jc at April 04, 2013 10:42 PM (PlzOe)
Posted by: Adriane, currently sock free, but wearing pants ... at April 04, 2013 10:45 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 04, 2013 10:45 PM (fGI92)
Posted by: Adriane, currently sock free, but wearing pants ... at April 04, 2013 10:45 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 04, 2013 10:47 PM (mN8D3)
Posted by: Arbalest at April 04, 2013 10:47 PM (F7SXT)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 04, 2013 10:48 PM (fGI92)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 04, 2013 10:49 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 04, 2013 10:51 PM (fGI92)
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 10:51 PM (/COnL)
Posted by: The Dude at April 04, 2013 10:51 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 04, 2013 10:52 PM (fGI92)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 04, 2013 10:52 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 10:55 PM (/COnL)
On second thought, don't want to know....
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 04, 2013 10:55 PM (fGI92)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 05, 2013 02:51 AM (fGI92)
Speaking of which, I need to send in my extensions before decamping to the south. Best print 'em now.
Posted by: Cthulhu's tantalizing tentacles of titillation at April 04, 2013 10:57 PM (kaalw)
On second thought, don't want to know....
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 05, 2013 02:55 AM (fGI92)
no tentacles, just a comedy between a pervy dude and somewhat neebish girl
Posted by: The Dude at April 04, 2013 10:57 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 04, 2013 11:00 PM (mN8D3)
Posted by: Adriane, currently sock free, but wearing pants ... at April 04, 2013 11:01 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Soona at April 04, 2013 11:02 PM (QUNIH)
Posted by: The Steve Miller Band at April 04, 2013 11:03 PM (F7SXT)
yo all in the little boxes
so the brat and I got to do a couple songs today...did well
she did the solos and nailed it
but they were winger songs
my mancard is in danger
Posted by: navycopjoe at April 04, 2013 11:06 PM (yVJa4)
not too messianic, or a trifle too satanic ....
Posted by: jc at April 04, 2013 11:08 PM (PlzOe)
Ace and I go back far enough (to the near-beginning of the moronblog, though we don't actually "know" each other) that I knew full well that he wasn't trying to insult me. It was just a poorly-chosen hook to hang his point (about Palin) on, one that made me (and my gf) unfortunate targets. I was angry at the time...but not with him.
And ironically enough, I DID have keys, to moderation at least. In fact, I think I still do, although I'd have to dig them up...I've always just been too damn lazy to ever try and post as a cob-logger around here. And at this point, let's be honest, I'd be too divisive a personality.
Frankly, I get some of what you're saying: I DO have a tendency to fall back into a reflexive "oh you proles don't understand how politics REALLY works" stance (I even joked about it on the previous thread). But even so, I rarely if ever post without a true kernel of conviction in whatever it is I'm saying. Get past the rough language and tone -- some which is just my OWN 'armor' as a designated RINO target around here -- and I do feel like I can defend the substance of my points most of the time.
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 11:10 PM (/COnL)
Truth: I'm a cold Italian pizza, I could use a lemon squeeze or two.
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 11:11 PM (/COnL)
for EC if he shows up later and no, we didn't play this one..we played can't get enough and madalaine
Posted by: navycopjoe at April 04, 2013 11:11 PM (yVJa4)
==
I thought Romney lost the election because you are a rhododendron.
Posted by: jc at April 04, 2013 11:12 PM (PlzOe)
so says the guy who thinks Romney lost the election because i'm a democrat plant
Posted by: navycopjoe at April 05, 2013 03:08 AM (yVJa4)
honestly can't think of a worse candidate than Romney last year. Rather have the Paultards than Romney
Posted by: The Dude at April 04, 2013 11:13 PM (vJdyz)
A catoniaster, actually. Fucker grows like bamboo in my sideyard.
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 11:13 PM (/COnL)
Some from Laura Branigan - Don't Cry for Me Argentina
http://youtu.be/4Ew3OpYvN6U
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 04, 2013 11:13 PM (fGI92)
599 you are a rhododendron
sweet hell, that just totally broke my Chicago education
***tips bud black crown towards jc***
Posted by: navycopjoe at April 04, 2013 11:14 PM (yVJa4)
Posted by: Soona at April 04, 2013 11:15 PM (QUNIH)
i'll make it even worse
i'm announcing oct 1st
Posted by: navycopjoe at April 05, 2013 03:15 AM (yVJa4)
as long as you promise to burn down the GOP and I'm game
Posted by: The Dude at April 04, 2013 11:16 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: Evita wasn't a Republican at April 04, 2013 11:17 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Anna's 80's link continues to mutate... at April 04, 2013 11:23 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: navycopjoe at April 05, 2013 03:19 AM (yVJa4)
be running mates, I bring the kerosene and you bring the matches
Posted by: The Dude at April 04, 2013 11:23 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: L, elle at April 04, 2013 11:24 PM (0PiQ4)
Posted by: navycopjoe at April 05, 2013 03:19 AM (yVJa4)
===
way too good for 'em. need to add some dastardly and a bunch of vile.
Posted by: jc at April 04, 2013 11:24 PM (PlzOe)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 04, 2013 11:24 PM (mN8D3)
612 works for me, both parties need to go imho
at least out of four congress critters we have one good one
gabby rocks
Posted by: navycopjoe at April 04, 2013 11:26 PM (yVJa4)
614 I save my vile for all mankind
ugggh, I need to go downstairs and wire in my voltage stabilizer in the car
plus I have a 5am pickup and I have to get the new tint at 10
life of a cabbie, sigh
on the bright side, the tint and rims are tax deductible WOOHOO!!
Posted by: navycopjoe at April 04, 2013 11:29 PM (yVJa4)
I guess my only point is that I'm not trying to win ANY 'title'. I'm just being me. My views are my views because they're my views, not because I'm trying to play some sort of quasi-triangulating game.
The funny thing is, I'm like 95% in tune with the beliefs of every other regular around here...pretty much the only places I disagree are in terms of the need to 'sell' conservatism to a general public that ain't the same as it was during the Reagan Years, plus a disdain for hardcore 'let's jettison science' approach to issues like evolution or homosexuality. (But note: that same approach leads me to believe that Global Warming is pretty much an intentionally insidious hoax, so I'm trying to apply this metric evenly regardless of where it leads.) I don't try to be a contrarian because it's my "brand," it's just that I guess I feel most motivated to jump in and participate on those topics where I feel we as conservatives are "going wrong" and there's a better (yet still truly conservative) solution that we could choose instead.
Whatever, I'm just a man, like any/every other man out there. And now it's Time For Go To Bed, for me and probably for you too.
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 11:35 PM (/COnL)
Posted by: Adriane... at April 04, 2013 11:35 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Adriane... at April 04, 2013 11:39 PM (TvO05)
620 Drive carefully, navycopjoe ...
ha, everyone says I drive like a cop...gee, I wonder why?
i'll have to send a picture for the car thread and see who can guess what I have...besides pgis, she was in the car the day after I put it on the road, shit, the wiring was still on the front seat I think
Posted by: navycopjoe at April 04, 2013 11:39 PM (yVJa4)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 04, 2013 11:39 PM (mN8D3)
bedtime for me to
let me beat the ladies to the good bathroom so I can take up the tub for an hour
yes, bubblebaths are for dems
don't H8
Posted by: navycopjoe at April 04, 2013 11:40 PM (yVJa4)
Congrats to you and the brat NCP. I'll bet you're pretty proud
of the girl for nailing the solos. I know I couldn't
Posted by: zeera at April 04, 2013 11:52 PM (3dXwx)
Susan Patton is living proof the Rolling Stones were half a century ahead of her time whne they recorded Time Is On My Side.
Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at April 05, 2013 01:03 AM (0c0fX)
Posted by: teej at April 05, 2013 01:26 AM (erYRT)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lIR9xV-zYow#!
Posted by: Pakimon at April 05, 2013 01:39 AM (e72b9)
Could be profit taking from the high, but it could also be folks figuring out they don't want to be paid in 10 years in a currency whose supply is set to double between now and the end of next year.
Posted by: Methos at April 05, 2013 01:58 AM (hO9ad)
Posted by: BignJames at April 05, 2013 02:10 AM (H9MGI)
Posted by: model_1066 at April 05, 2013 02:30 AM (7xPCu)
Posted by: Zippity Doo Dah at April 05, 2013 02:37 AM (E55AK)
Posted by: VADM (Red) Cuthbert Collingwood (Mentioned in Despatches) at April 05, 2013 02:45 AM (p4U6S)
Posted by: Sir Willard of the Romney at April 05, 2013 02:46 AM (p4U6S)
Is JeffB the missing link?
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ drinking heavily at April 05, 2013 02:47 AM (hO8IJ)
One point to keep in mind when discussing the nuking of Japan as an alternative to invasion is that the Purple Heart medals that are awarded today to soldiers wounded or killed in Iraq or Afghanistan were manufactured in 1945 in anticipation of the invasion of the Japanese home islands. Back during the Vietnam war, they manufactured some new medals but then they found a warehouse full of them that had been sitting there since the invasion was called off with the Japanese surrender.
Posted by: Obnoxious A-hole at April 05, 2013 03:05 AM (31Nrp)
Posted by: deadrody at April 05, 2013 03:11 AM (b2D8X)
This phenomenon was described in the humorous "Official M.D. Handbook" while I was in medical school: "Going to medical school to meet a husband is like climbing Mt. Everest to get a breath of fresh mountain air."
Looking around at the 20 or so female M.D.s in my town:
-->none put in the 80+ hour work weeks common among their male colleagues
-->all but one married even or up
-->half of the married ones no longer bother to practice at all
Yet another reason for the "doctor shortage."
Posted by: Molon Labe at April 05, 2013 03:13 AM (D0TVY)
Posted by: deadrody at April 05, 2013 03:15 AM (b2D8X)
According to TV ads and sitcoms, virtually all women marry men barely capable of remembering to breathe, never mind be their intellectual equal.
Posted by: epobirs at April 05, 2013 03:22 AM (kcfmt)
Posted by: epobirs at April 05, 2013 03:37 AM (kcfmt)
Posted by: tired at April 05, 2013 04:31 AM (adOUE)
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Posted by: Buddha at April 05, 2013 05:17 AM (8NlUk)
Action stars tend to be Republican because that just happens to be their target market. Libs are not fans, conservatives are. Simple. You have been duped. See Arnold Schwartzenwhatever.
You're welcome.
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