How does one even follow an H&H like that? I’ll just throw something up here and go back to that.
How do you say “Alice Cooper” in Italian?
These vegans need more protein, they got physically tossed by Jill Biden.
I think I read this book before. Eventually, every immortal who is not blessed with infinite strength gets trapped alone under something they can’t move, forever.
You know, this might be a perfect application of “red flag” gun laws.
Don’t play poker with your parrot.
1972 was a weird time.
Dem DeathWatch 2020 DeathWatch
Welcome now, my friends, to the end of Dem DeathWatch. It’s all over except for a headless chicken running around and girl trolling the DNC as hard as she can.
Bloomberg’s out. I’m sure many underlings will be insulted and belittled and slapped on their fat asses tonight. You’ll always have American Samoa, Mike.
Warren managed a solid 3rd place in her home state. That’s why she gets an L for loser. Because she’s a loser. Time to primary her back to her affirmative action job.
Why Gabbard is hanging on is God’s own private mystery, but the DNC has moved the goalposts again and she will not be in the 3/15 debate. So it’s just two goofy old men and a pissed off schoolmarm. Y’all gonna get scolded…
Bonus hysteria link!
Voting for the Safe Choice Means Doom for Us All
DOOOOOOO…
Physically tossed by Dr. Jill Biden, Whoopi Goldberg-approved choice for Surgeon General:
It’s not entirely her fault. Jill Biden has been obsessively titled Dr Biden for some time to conflate her degree.
It’s not entirely her fault.
Her Twitter handle is @DrBiden, wherein she refers to herself as “Dr. Jill Biden”. She’s not exactly demurring on the use of the title.
Also pointed out: somehow it was never ‘Doctor Lynne Cheney’, despite her PhD in 19th-century British literature.
TIL that many (most?) newspapers’ style manuals say to only use ‘Dr.’ for medical doctors (WaPo, NYT were mentioned).
Sorry, I meant Whoopi’s fault. Jill Biden is a driver behind it, or maybe Joe’s staff. Dunno. It’s been going on for years.
Jill Biden is a driver behind it
You know what other driver was behind Joe Biden’s wife.
:Runs, Hides:
Dr. McGillicuddy?
An 8 Wood ?
Ah, gotcha. Though it doesn’t take much to confuse Whoopi.
I was wondering how spirited Jill Biden’s dissertation defense (“Student Retention at the Community College: Meeting Students’ Needs”) at UD was. I’m sure nobody knew she was the wife of the longtime senator and in no way went easy on her.
Erm, it’s a doctorate in education. They are total jokes – bad methodologies copied crudely from psychology and sociology, methods lacking in rigor, lazy analyses. I could ghost write one of those.
Exactly – I suspect they _still_ didn’t press her on anything in her dissertation. If she even had to do a dissertation defense.
Education tends to be “harder” methodologically than psychology and sociology. Education research, as opposed to studying to become a teacher, is usually very quantitative in focus and requires a sound knowledge of statistical inference. While psychology and sociology do have their quantitative sides, fuzzy qualitative “me”-search methodologies (autoethnography, anyone) are much more common.
But what do I know?
STFU ACADEMICTARD.
It seems to work from politically motivated conclusion backward through the methodology a lot.
I was hoping to take a look at the dissertation, but it looks to not be available electronically.
I’d be curious to see those statistical sections.
It’s an Ed.D. in “educational leadership”, so I’m not sure how “hard” that is.
@Jarflax
I think that’s very true of all three, no? I’m not disputing education falls under the social sciences. 🙂
LOL, fair point.
It’s basically like a DBA or PhD in Management but focused on the educational context. Are they doing deep dives into Solomonoff probability? No. But you’re being trained…well, at least, you should be being trained in using empirical data with heuristics from the decision sciences and organizational psychology to make decisions at a range of levels (institutional, local, state, federal, etc.).
Black “ministers” also get it. It’s always Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
That annoys me as well. While we’re at it, when did “reverend” become a noun and not an honorific?
How dare you slander his memory. It is always “The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.”
Dr. Martin Luther King!
Not in the Minneapolis ghetto. Last year on MLK Day, So-Low grocery’s outdoor sign read:
Happy Martin King Luther Day
True story.
Yeah, outside of higher-ed use of the title by non-MDs is pretentious. Particularly for people with PhDs in education.
Every pissant school district is run by a superintendent named “Doctor”.
Can confirm.
Superintendent? Even our principal was one of those phony-ass “doctors”
One of my favorite high school memories was Doctor Principal telling my mom that she must be mistaken about what grade I was in, because the good Dr. knew all her juniors and she didn’t know me.
After I got what must have been the highest SAT that that piece of shit school produced, she of course pretended that she had always known and loved me.
True. My brother has a hard science PhD from UCLA and a post-doc from Columbia. He shuns the Dr. thing. He’a also living in one of the top-10 richest zip codes in the USA.
I don’t make you idiots call me Dr. Warty. I should, though. Dr. Warty, PhD at Law.
Wartsy, how about we just refer to you as ‘Dr. Doc’?
My best friend is an actual medical doc and never uses it, and tells us to not say anything to others so we can all get boozed up in peace.
What about Colonel Doctor?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BVO9b7EUqU
Dr. Mrs. The Monarch
Mister Doctor?
Doctor Spaceman!
I’m told I look quite a bit like Doctor Spaceman
My personal taste would be that only practicing medical professionals use the title doctor, with retired doctors using MD and all other doctorate holders using the appropriate letters.
Hear, hear!
Only retired doctors?
/Eugene Gu, MD
In relatively recent terms (over the last, I dunno, 8 – 10 years?) I have noticed an increase in the number of lawyers appending “J.D.” to their names.
Pretentious twats, IMO. At least back when I started practicing in Virginia back in the quill-pen days, we would use “Esq'” because old-school Virginia lawyers are old school.
I agree. It is not a doctorate no matter what the Law Schools wantto claim.
That’s like appending “M.B.A.” to your name. It may be technically accurate, but it’d make you like like a jackass in all but the most specific situations.
Feel free to brag on your LL.D., but I don’t know too many of those.
It’s not us non-medical doctors fault that English is retarded.
This is not a problem in other languages, in French your doctor is an “médecin”.
Besides, as I’ve mentioned before, I don’t know why you all go ga-ga over a glorified biological mechanic. We other doctors actually had to contribute to the body of human knowledge by discovering or inventing something that no one had ever found or did before. But it’s the guy who studied how to burn off your hemorrhoids whose dick you’re rushing to suck.
Because if I’m having a heart attack and someone yells out, “is there a doctor in the house?”, I’m not hoping they’ll diagram the phonetic similarities between my grunts of pain and late 18th-century English.
(I’m sure that last bit is nonsensical)
And if your car won’t start you hire a mechanic, and if you need wheat you find a farmer. But if you wanted to preserve the Republic it would have been wise to have a few Philosophers and Historians on our side. I think the argument yesterday had some flaws on both sides, and I am not a fan of the vast majority of ‘scholarship’ today, but that is because there are many phonies in the towers.
“Human knowledge,” bah.
I made new *stuff.* Actual physical chemical compounds that you could put into a vial or touch or taste (but I would really not recommend ingesting) that AFAWCT had never existed anywhere in the universe before.
Again, not my fault the English language is retarded.
But I was referring more to what (sociologist!) Max Weber called “institutional mystique”.
It’s not us non-medical doctors fault that English is retarded.
True, but it’s what we got. Reserving “doctor” for the medical kind makes things clearer. Alternatively people could go around saying “Medical Doctor So-and-So” or “Philosophy-Doctor So-and-So”, but if it’s just going to be “Doctor” it should be for “médecins”.
Besides, as I’ve mentioned before, I don’t know why you all go ga-ga over a glorified biological mechanic.
Because mechanics are of much more practical use than the other type of doctors. Yes, a small portion of those doctors does produce useful things, but most of those “new” discoveries are trivialities. The trivia producing doctors are of the stature of boring entertainers, so they sully the rest of the title-bearers. Basically if the other doctors want the prestige of the medical doctors, they need to be more selective in who they bestow the title to.
Was that directed at me, Jarflex? Because I don’t disagree. But having philosophers and historians on anyone’s side is orthogonal to honorifics.
People want “doctor” to mean medical doctor in case there’s a sudden need for one. My car can wait, my acute medical issue can’t.
@Not Adahn
New stuff is even better!
But teaching others how to make that stuff is the transmission of new knowledge, no?
Of course. If you don’t publish, how can you get credit?
No offense, but it always amuses me when I come across this sort of argument in libertarian circles.
What have you done for the people, comrade? Though it is mixed in with the whole beer, tits, football, and Southern rock thing too.
People want “doctor” to mean medical doctor in case there’s a sudden need for one.
Outside of Zucker brothers films is this really a concern?
Outside of Zucker brothers films is this really a concern?
Yes – Dr. Drew Pinsky just had that happen on a flight from NY to Denver.
Talks about it here, if you’re interested: https://podcastone.com/episode/1227-Is-There-A-Medical-Professional-On-The-Flight
starting ~ 4:30
TBF, the phrasing was “is there a medical professional on the flight?”, I suspect for reasons we’re discussing.
People want “doctor” to mean medical doctor in case there’s a sudden need for one. My car can wait,
I’m sorry but this argument makes no sense at all. An expert in Provencal poetry being called Doctor has no impact whatsoever on your access to an MD in an emergency. Do you actually believe that the PhD is going to jump forth and begin treating you in your distress? Or that the MD will hang back because there is a PhD present? The hostility toward honorifics is silliness.
Is a guy pretentious if he insists on his titles? Sure, but that is because he is making an issue out of a it, not because he earned the title and courtesy dictates that you should use it. It comes from the egalitarian side of things not the libertarian and is a different face of the same coin as the left wing hatred of the wealthy.
Yeah no, not times where someone needs and calls for a ‘doctor’ but times where someone calls for a doctor and some Egyptology pipes up.
Not even the Egyptologist piping up is enough to make the point, his piping up would have to dissuade the MD from piping up to have the effect being argued.
that was a response to Slumbrew, my example of a Zucker brothers film scenario.
I deserve a title. Why cum there no pilot title?
Francisco d’Anconia, GOF (God of Flight)
Depends. What do you fly?
Context is everything, of course.
Shit, my undergrads call me [first name]. However, if I were presenting a paper at a conference and after having been properly introduced, someone refers to me as Mr. [last name] during the Q&A, that’s a calculated insult.
… he earned the title and courtesy dictates that you should use it.
That’s where we disagree – I don’t think courtesy dictates I should refer to the Provençal poetry expert with a PhD as “doctor” outside of very specific professional settings (e.g., we’re on a panel at a conference).
If I’ve just met the guy, Courtesy does not dictate I say “Doctor Gascoigne, please pass the beer nuts” when we’re at the local, especially if I’m not any sort of colleague.
It’s a tempest in a teapot – he’s free to call himself doctor at the bar, I’m free to think he’s a douche for doing so and we’re all reduced to saying “is there a medical professional in the house?” when someone overdoes it on the jaegerbombs.
What have you done for the people, comrade?
You’re looking at it all wrong. The thought is “What have you don for me?”, which is the most individualistic attitude there is. 😉
Garbage men are more valuable to me than 90% of non-medical doctors.
However, if I were presenting a paper at a conference and after having been properly introduced, someone refers to me as Mr. [last name] during the Q&A, that’s a calculated insult.
100% agreed. Context is, as you say, everything.
Nothing for ten years, now. But, by god, I did’t spend 18 months at evil pilot training to be called Mr!
Insistence on titles is usually inversely proportional to their significance.
Well, except for this guy.
“It’s Lieutenant Colonel Vindman, please”
And what about this “Dr. Seuss” Guy?!?! I hear he wasn’t even a real doctor.
Don’t forget Dr Science!
Just don’t tell me that Dr. Death Stece Williams wasn’t a real doctor.
Just wait until AOC gets her honorary doctorate.
*zombie Dr Toni Morrison nods knowingly*
Don’t forget <em<Doctor Christine Blasey Ford. I don’t know how you could, since the media obsessively called her “Doctor” every 30 seconds to try and give that lying gutterscrunt a veneer of credibility.
I think Bill Cosby used to put his name on the titles at the end of his shows as “William H. Cosby Jr, Ed.D. (hon)”, giving himself his honorary doctorate degree as a suffix.
He did seem to know a lot about pharmacology, though.
He knew enough to get by.
He’s also good with condiments . . .oh wait . . .he’s not talking about bbq sauce . . .fucking pervert!
Perhaps……the “hell of a doctor” part would still be funny, though.
Julius Erving was a hell of a doctor, too – let’s make him Surgeon General!
Also a Doctor. In 1972!
Also -rans: Dr Demento, Dr Johnny Fever, Robert “Dr Doom” Brazile, and Skip “Dr Death” Thomas
Tom Baker for Surgeon General or GTFO.
?
Nah… he’ll be up for Curator of the National Gallery of Art.
He likes to revisit the old favorites, we understand…
No one linked this yet?
https://youtu.be/hoe24aSvLtw
Mike Bloomberg ruins even your most special of times.
“tweet is unavailable”
Damn your nimble fingers!
Well, shit, it was available a few minutes ago.
It was a Bloomberg ad on PornHub
Take two?
Also unavailable.
Well, it won’t work for whatever reason. If you really want to see it, maybe the image alone will work, but now it’s been so built up that it’s bound to be disappointing.
She apparently admitted she was wrong.
Her handle should be #I’llbewronganyway
It popped up and finished for me.
Those ads are getting really advanced!
Are we talking about the ad?
Tell me about it.
I was born in ’72.
Also born in 1972.
1972 music
’72 Music
More 1972 music
Probably should have been with the Dr. thread above.
Ted S.:
“Also born in 1972.
1972 music”
Ted S., that is quite a depressing song, and in your honor I will attempt to post a link to its lyrics here .
kinnath says “my god you people make me feel old”
4score then says “settle down young man”
Also 72.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BonWfTW7jKc
Love that damn song. Great choice!
You kids get off my lawn.
Effing punks, all of them.
I turned 21 in 72. “Interesting times” doesn’t begin to cover it.
I’m also a ’72
Step inside, step inside.
they got physically tossed by Jill Biden.
That’s how she takes care of Joe as well.
tossed…like a salad?
What you have done there – I observe it approvingly.
Hey baby, I hear the blues a-callin’,
Tossed salad and scrambled eggs
She tosses him while he smells her hair?
Only when she’s wearing the mid-century little girl party dress and the Mary Jane patent leather shoes.
Now I feel like I should go wash off.
I’m disappointed no shotgun blasts were involved
Isn’t this true for Bernie too….
Nah, Bernie never did anything in the Senate, so he couldn’t have done those bad things.
Didn’t the fracking boom reduce CO2 emissions which is the worst thing ever? How did it make matters worse?
Because we’re not back to living in caves yet.
Ignorant Boomer Shares CNN Article Thinking It’s Real
Years-Long, Multimillion-Dollar Nomination Process Narrows Field Down To Four Worst People On Planet
Mrs. TOK was planning on competing in a powerlifting comp this weekend that was related to the Arnold Classic. But yesterday Arnold himself cancelled all but the 2 premier events. Corona had arrived! In a sense.
I have been in meetings every day this week–including Sunday–trying to plan how we are going to handle things on my campus. This week is spring break for us so we have until Monday to figure it out. So far our statewide governing board has said absolutely nothing.
Voting for the Safe Choice Means Doom for Us All
Gizmodo – because nothing says “high-tech news” like an analysis of a primary.
Fir……
TENTH!
Hi Brett!
1972 might have been weird, but it was also amazing!
This is 1972!
Not 1975?
Sessions finished 2nd in the GOP primary for a US Senate seat in Alabama. There will be a runoff. Trump is pleased.
Sessions is a piece of shit. I hope he looses.
He did, at least, acknowledge last year that the Civil War was caused by slavery. His Confederate ancestors aren’t turning in their graves because they knew that all along.
Just say “slavery”.
Socon cookie elf.
Trump knows how to hold a grudge. My Irish ancestors would approve (“Irish alzheimer’s – you forget everything but the grudges”).
When it comes to Sessions the grudge is more than justified. That Keebler elf is a duplicitous bastard.
So you’re saying there’s a chance…
The overall takeaway from Super Tuesday is that former Vice President Joe Biden won the night. However, Fox News contributor Karl Rove believes Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has a path to the nomination because of California.
“Let’s not kid ourselves, we’re focused on Biden who had a big night but the guy who had a better morning is Bernie because the results are coming in [from] California,” Rove said on “Fox & Friends” Wednesday morning. …
Rove has previously argued that Bernie Sanders is the most formidable candidate against President Donald Trump. Last year, when Bernie appeared in a Fox News town hall, Rove said that showed Bernie’s willingness to buck party trends and pull in a diverse coalition of voters. Keep in mind, Bernie appeared on Fox News in defiance of DNC chair Tom Perez’s decision to blackball the network from hosting Democratic presidential primary debates.
“That was a smart move on his part,” Rove said, later adding that Sanders has learned from previous mistakes. “He is a lot more fluid.”
Rove said that, as has clearly been on display throughout this election primary, Bernie had a talent for pivoting on issues when being confronted on his more controversial positions.
“He says, ‘I paid all the taxes I owe,’ and he quickly pivots and says, ‘I released 10 years of tax returns, President Trump ought to do the same,’” Rove said in 2019. “Martha says, ‘You know, here’s Mayor Pete, he says there should be a new generation of leadership. You will be 79 if you’re sworn in as president.’ He makes a joke. He says, ‘It’s a fair question.’ He says, ‘It’s not whether you’re young or old, it’s what you believe.’”
“Every time he brought it back to his message,” Rove continued. “That demonstrated to me that he has learned from having run before. He really did a good job of softening the edges of socialism. Whenever the issue came up, he made it feel warm and fuzzy, kumbaya, shake hands, run around the campfire.”
” run around the campfire”
Well you have to do something for heat.
It’s not over till it’s over, so we shall see what happens. 5 days ago everyone was saying that Biden would be out by this time now.
It’s over. Biden’s the nominee. The only question is, now that it looks like Biden will have the most delegates (if not an outright majority), if the Berniebots turn the convention into Chicago 1968 (they probably will).
^^ I can agree with this.
More like Portland 2019, bike locks and all.
Hey, you know, if Warren stays in the race…
she might just win 1/1024th of the delegates
There’s also the fact that Biden’s senility gets more and more obvious.
Leading him to nominate Michelle Obama VP
People are still interviewing Karl Rove?
He has a regular column in the WSJ.
I normally click the headline look at the byline and quickly move to the next article.
Back when the presidential administration and media palled around together…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5RD9BhcCo
He still shows up on Fox. I sometimes watch just to hear what the old mainstream Republicans are thinking.
Ass Wednesday is fun for kids of all ages!
http://archive.is/YcKPG
This seemed Q-worthy
https://i.redd.it/7jaw56mjv6d41.jpg
Approved.
Is it just me being old, or is what’s now considered a nice ass way too big?
In 10 years half those women are gonna look like they’ve got two puppies fighting under a blanket!
If you’re thinking that you’ll still want her in your life 10 years from now, you are too old for this game.
*nods in reluctant acceptance*
My buddy always described it as “two bobcats fighting it out in a burlap sack”.
More like a Costco sized sack of wet popcorn.
Today in fun with qualified immunity (for once not granted!), a court had to say this, wherein a cop frames a man for murder and he ends up in prison for 23 years before the conviction is overturned… because the dude’s mom rejected his sexual advances.
It should be noted that this cop had a long history of raping women (by giving them the “have sex with me or I’ll arrest you/someone you love” ultimatum) and framing people to curry favor with the drug gangs. He was never punished for it and was promoted to Captain before he retired, despite people in the PD knowing what he was doing.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article240869481.html
Idris Elba is looking rough.
You have to wait until the 7th para before the dirty cop’s name is mentioned, and no picture, of course.
I sometimes wonder if we really are “more civilized” because we no longer go out and drag pieces of shit like this through the streets before flaying them alive and then leaving their bodies where everyone can see them.
I am very much against the death penalty and very much in favor of a broad interpretation of the 8th Amendment.
However, if they left Mr. McIntyre alone with an array of weapons in a room with “Officer” Golubski tied to a chair … well, I wouldn’t feel too bad about it.
Someone should whisper to Hillary that Officer Golubski knows what happened to Seth Rich.
There are worse things than the occasional bout of vigilante justice. No torture though.
Let’s replace the “clearly established right” standard with the “ask a random11 year old” standard, wherein the cop gets immunity only if the random 11 year old cannot decide whether the conduct was right or wrong when told what the cop knew at the moment of the decision.
It’s sad when the “Justice” system you have is less just than one that would make the determinations at the whims of an 11 year old.
Publicly flay the fucker
That piece of shit looks exactly like you would expect
Heh, straight out of central casting…
Maybe Jill was protecting the vegans from Joe…
Also, “Lunging Vegans” is a great band name.
Lungers?
Exactly what I thought it was.
He was just too high strung.
Leaping Vegans is better.
Well, there’s something I can add to the list of things I’ve done – reupholstered a chair.
It helps that I couldn’t really just sit down comfortably until I’d finished with the chair.
And the microsuede I got matches the original parts, so 😀
Whoa, that’s impressive.
Just don’t look at the underside. It’s kinda ugly.
Next up: an alligator case for the 10/22.
Where’s Sensei? I want to tell him all about my new ADC/DAC.
Is that a cover band?
The newest virus from SE Asia.
It’s the latest addition to the LBGTQWERTY+ string.
So a cover-superband.
Heathen. Peasant.
Heathen, definitely. I don’t think I live close enough to the land to be a peasant, though.
Right here!
Priced right?
Yep. RME ADI-2 FS Pro in black.
Want!
Still priced a little too dear for my needs. Great value if you need one, however.
I’m rocking a Topping D50s and quite happy as I don’t have much need for the ADC.
Nobody NEEDS one. But the distortion and bandwidth are so excellent that I can use it an a measurement tool. Lower distortion than an AP, and a 768kHz sample rate.
That was what I figured you were going to do with it.
It is a bargain to use for that purpose.
The only thing bad I can say is that firmware seems a bit of the Wild West. When I looked at the DAC only from RME there was no change log and the firmware was in individual posts on their forum.
Hopefully things are better now.
I set it up yesterday with zero issue.
I should mention that I got a friendly price from them, so unlike the goyim, I didn’t pay retail. Reviewers have mad privileges. (actually, it was a gift from another friend, so I paid zero- he got the discount)
Funny thing was that it had to practically be smuggled out of China.
!boggle!
I had an RME interface on my Mac years ago. Rock solid, but interfaces were in flux then and it got obsoleted and then deleted. I don’t record any longer so I haven’t bothered.
Aide de Camp/Deputy Assistant Commissar?
Look, the sample rate comment from OMWC should be your clue!
Muh ghost guns
“These guns attempt to circumvent the hard fought and carefully considered gun safety laws of the District of Columbia,” said Councilmember Allen. “We know they are used in violent crimes. They’re not for hobbyists or collectors. They’re being used for one purpose: to inflict harm in our communities.”
In just one year, between 2018 and 2019, the District saw a 364 percent increase in the recovery of ghost guns. In 2017, the Metropolitan Police Department recovered only three ghost guns in the District; in 2018, 25 ghost guns were recovered; and in 2019, 116 ghost guns were recovered. In just the first six weeks of this year, 28 ghost guns have already been recovered. The types of ghost guns recovered in the District include handguns and rifles, including assault weapons such as AR-15s.
Damn…..it’s almost as if criminals have no respect for the law!
Good. The more technology works to make gun control an impossibility, the better. These tyrants can’t understand that their desire for prior restraint is immoral, so we need to make it obvious that it’s impossible.
“We know they are used in violent crimes.”
Because everyone knows that violent criminals are going to go through the effort to mill out an 80% receiver.
Wait, so people nod along and make a concerned face when you talk about climate change and say “oh yeah, we should do something about that”, but then balk at the part where they have to give up their cars and their air conditioning and pay 10x more for electricity (now with constant rolling blackouts)?
Huh. How about that.
Housing should be cheaper. Just don’t build any of it near me.
Who decided to drink out of a four-legged animal’s teats?
Who decided it would be awesome to eat bee poop?
How did someone figure out you could make fabric out of worm poop?
The silkworm question is easier, since they make a sort of fabric anyway, so the hard part was working out how to harvest it.
It’s likely honey was already a food source before we became people.
What I wonder is how desperate were the people who first ate oysters.
Mmmm, oysters. That was the bulk of my dinner last night.
But yes, visually those are not something that screams out “I’m delicious!”.
Our closest living relatives, the Chimpanzees, love them some grubs. We’ve been eating bugs, snails and gods know what else [side-eyes HM] forever.
Other than silk, the answer is “very hungry people”. The alternatives were dirt, grass, and bugs.
Easy there, Andy Rooney.
Whoa there, Judge!
Who figured out that if you slice a blowfish juuuuust right you can eat it without dying a horrible death?
The 199th iron chef?
Right?!
Bee Vomit actually, and fermented bee vomit at that.
Even better!
Who figured out that the anal glands and urine of beavers was tasty?
HM?
*headdesk*
I should’ve known that!
What’s wrong with eating beaver?
I’ve never eaten beaver ass, but I’ve eaten Coonass beaver.
I don’t think you’re suppose to say ‘Coonass’ anymore.
It’s ok if you use the “soft” s.
It’s ok, you can’t be racist against wypipo.
I can.
I had a fraternity brother that was totally unfazed by all “slurs” against Italians — except for “guinea.” That one sent him into a rage for some reason.
Well, “Acadian-American” was rejected by the Federal Racial Labels Board as infringing, and “Person of Swamp” never got caught on since the greenies objected to “swamp” and when they tried to substitute “Wetlands” the veteran’s groups objected.
Would that rage be more or less severe than talking about hip width?
Eeeewww!
Humans are in inquisitive lot.
If you’re hungry enough you’ll try just about anything. Just ask Winston’s Mom.
Imagine there is no store of human knowledge. Now imagine a bunch of big children (i.e. adults) who’ve never been told “no” because no one knew better yet. All of these discoveries and more are the logical and inevitable result of such a situation.
See: blowfish. How many people have to die experimenting with it before someone says I’MMA DO THIS and then EUREKA! and writes down a list of instructions that include the word “nanometer”?
It’s really amazing how quickly–what 4 days?–Biden went from someone who couldn’t compete in Iowa and New Hampshire to the favorite to win the nomination. Never happened before.
It makes sense though. Bernie’s winning in the whitest of white states. Once the electorate got a little more diverse…
Buttglug and Klobuchar dropping out helped him out quite a bit.
That and the MSM and DNC pulling out all the plugs to push his candidacy.
When do they realize that all their hard work resulted in Joe being their nominee? Before or after Trump makes Hunter campaign topic #1?
Honestly if I was a lefty Dem, I would rather have Bernie than Biden. Neither of them will beat Trump, but at least with a Bernie run, you could purge the New Commies after he loses. When Biden gets beat, the AOC cadres will be convinced it was because they cheated Bernie out of the nomination.
I’d prefer to see Bernie get the nod too but I could see good old Joe being the willing trojan horse for a truly transformative VP and heir apparent or just stepping aside for Hillary Clinton. The party shotcallers certainly realize he’s in the throes of early dementia but it’s too late to shift course now.
corvids >>> parrots
covid >>> parvo
This whole aging thing is bullshit.
I woke up today in a vast amount of pain, as if I broke my foot.
I’m fairly certain it’s plantar fasciitis, presumably from wearing shoes without enough support yesterday. When did I become so delicate?
Somewhere between the ages of 35 and 45, most likely.
Gah. I had that last summer after I walked around barefoot for a few hours at a pool party.
Birkenstocks.
Ugly, expensive, and kills plantar fasciitis dead.
I’ve heard there are some reasonably priced knockoffs available. #nohippie
I am not trusting my plantar fasciitis to cheap Chinese shit.
Old age — that fun time of life when you can injure yourself sleeping.
I pulled a hamstring stepping over a pile of laundry the other day.
without enough support
Uffda. That is up there with circumcised pizzas when it comes to yanking my chain.
The best thing you can do to prevent plantar fasciitis is to go barefoot (or as minimal as you can). I am not saying that taking it easy and using some support while you recover from your acute symptoms is wrong. I’m just saying that to build up the strength in your feet, try to be as natural as you can.
I have very flat feet and used to battle plantar fasciitus a lot. Then a hippy buddy got me turned onto barefooting everywhere. I love my vibram toe shoes and Xero shoes now. And not only do I not have foot pain, it has been great for my back too.
The only time I have ever doubted barefooting is when I discovered that Tundra was a big advocate of it too.
I was dressed like an adult, so none of those were options.
Maybe I’ll get some minimal something for wearing around the house (I mostly work from home).
Barfootin’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAEWyLbW6A0
I reluctantly agree with the Pontiff of the Prairie. With one caution: if you have underlying foot structure issues they will be laid bare(foot).
After running for way too many years on ‘stability’ shoes and suffering a shit-ton of ankle/foot injuries, I switched to zero drop shoes. For a long time I was very happy with them. My feet and ankles got stronger and more flexible and all was well. Until I started to have issues with my 2nd metatarsal (swelling, intense pain, etc.). After the first foot surgeon mis-diagnosed me (thank god I got another opinion and avoided the fucking joint replacement), a surgeon who works with athletes figured out that my gait was slightly fucked up so that my weight was not borne by the ball of my foot, but by the area of the metatarsal. Unfortunately I am now using an orthotic, but it has absolutely helped. I will be doing some other PT/exercises to minimize my dependence on the orthotics. Like most things, it’s not really my foot, but a whole chain of muscle/posture issues.
The Pontiff is right. Explore the barefoot experience. And start fixing shit when you are young.
I looked it up on WebMD. Foot cancer.
I knew it!
WebMD is full of shit.
Clearly has novel footovirus 19 between his toes.
On WebMD the answer is always cancer.
Not footlupus?
no
You obviously have foot gonorrhea. You need to stop being such a freak.
Sad to see Gizmodo sinking to crap like that story. I remember when they used to cover gadgets and tech and that was it. Of course slashdot used to be decent too.
What is the over/under on Glibs? When does this place jump the shark?
I want Shikia’s immigrant beat when that happens.
I’m taking Robbie’s “to be fair” first amendment analysis.
When does this place jump the shark?
It depends. How badly do you hate HM, and how irrationally?
How much? A lot!
How was I supposed to know that she was your goat?
I’m working on my submission titled “Why Freedom is Bad. Time to Embrace Our Bright Socialist Future.” It should be out next week.
I call dibs on writing “The Libertarian Case for Centrally Planned Everything,” please.
My work sent out an e-mail saying that non-essential business travel is banned and that if you travel to any of the countries experiencing the worst outbreaks (China/Iran/Italy/Hong Kong/South Korea), you have to quarantine yourself for two weeks after you get home. Wonder how close they’ll check if I say I went somewhere…
My friend said there are some great deals in Japan. Currently the Japanese are visiting Kyoto again as many of the Chinese tourists are quarantined at home.
Same here.
For us all cross-border travel is postponed until mid-April.
My father-in-law spends the winter in South Florida. He said the local lobster price has gone from $12/lb. to $3/lb because their largest market was China
Wonderful news! The last time I remember lobster at 3 dollars a pound was when I was 8.
That’s not lobster.
Who cares about lobster? It’s still stone crab season.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/04/government-fossil-fuel-power-projects-heathrow-judgment
I’m sure that if I told them the solution was massive increases in nuclear power generation, they’d say I was an idiot.
Not an idiot. A racist and a Nazi.
Speaking of tech mags that used to be OK but suck now
A ‘Netflix for the 99 Percent’ Enters the Streaming Wars
Can’t we just give these fuckers a state so they’ll stop bothering us?
We gave them California and it didn’t stop them.
Talk about ancestors spinning in their graves – mom’s family comes from Brooklyn. I suspect they’d be less than impressed with what’s become of their old stomping grounds.
Depends which part. There’s none of that stuff near me. Just boring people going about their lives.
WEPUNZ OF WAR!!
You can’t kill somebody with a bow&arrow, cmon.
Nick Offerman says Minnesoda is the best!
I’m a bit miffed because they said the lake was 42 miles SW of Bemidji. The correct answer is that it is about 40miles NE of Detroit Lakes (my home town).
Did Brett just give us five links?!?
There are five links!
I haven’t the faintest clue what anyone sees in this woman. The modus operandi for her entire life has consisted solely of leveraging RAWRGRRRLLLPOWER!!! bullshit for the advancement of her own career.
She’s the preferred candidate of repressed New England schoolmarms and shrill spinster librarians everywhere.
Plus INJUNPOWER!
As 2e discussed in the last thread, her purpose in life is now to grab enough of the far left vote to garuntee a win for Biden. Joe gets to run unopposed in the center lane.
Exactly
Aka the “free” shit brigade.
I blame Aaron Swartz, and wouldn’t be surprised if hacking played a role in her original election.
Unpossible. Internet activists were supposed to be libertarian.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/vtdigger.org/2020/03/01/a-nation-founded-on-a-lie/amp/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/606163/
Blah, blah, blah, America sucks, blah, blah, blah, racism, sexism, xenophobia…
Good lord these people are tedious.
Well it works…
Really? On whom – the weakest of minds?
Well doesn’t that describe most voters?
You and Noam Chomsky eh?
Oh, fuck off already.
America was built by the labor of enslaved people
All them wypipo just sat around laughing and throwing things at the slaves, I guess.
Why, I seem to recall that, when the country was founded, there was little to no slavery in a big chunk of the country, and even in the chunk where there was, not many owned slaves, and most of the “labor” was done by not-slaves.
I wonder: Do the hundreds of thousands of wypipo who fought and died to get rid of slavery get us any karma points?
There’s only one way to appease them, cede all power to them.
When grasshopper, you can seize the bullet in mid-air between the muzzle of my gun and your forehead, then you are ready to rule over me.
No.
*Neanderthals nod*
Darwin Award family category nominees
https://youtu.be/ZuWmmf-PglI
Yikes.
Amazing how fast that train comes up on them. Not like they were even near a crossing where you’d get some forewarning from a signal.
Mennonites?
Maybe.
They’re not Amish, since the dude was looking into the camera of the picture just taken. hXc Anabaptists like Old Order Amish will eschew a ‘graven image’.
those pesky Swartzentrubers are what you’re used to in the movies and such
That’s what they look like to me. Reminds me. Need to stop by the local Mennonite bakery to pick up some more bread this weekend.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/03/why-are-americans-warming-to-socialism-because-capitalism-has-failed-them
Why do policies supported by libertarians have the exact opposite effect?
“The poorest men in the US have the same life expectancy as men in Sudan. Maternal mortality more than doubled between 1991 and 2014. The middle class has shrunk.”
Many citations desperately needed.
The Sudan thing actually checks out if you believe the numbers:
https://newrepublic.com/article/153870/inequality-death-america-life-expectancy-gap
There are many factors other than wealth and access to healthcare that also account for this though.
When the Irish came to New York City, what do you think was more likely
A.) They made a beeline to Tammany Hall due to deep genetic/cultural memory or something
or
B.) Their treatment by the Know-Nothings forced them into the arms of the one group willing to protect them?
Can I pick C.) The cops and immigration officials meeting them at the boat were Irish and worked for Tammany?
Ok…before the first chicken laid the first egg.
Dinosaurs laid eggs?
Problem is you can simply give the immigrants more free shit. Who is more likely to do that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall
Also Tammany Hall began embracing the Irish immigrants before the Know Nothings.
Also what about young, out of state tech people?
Yes, the engine of growth for the world had failed them.
I really can’t wait for November.
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/03/04/cenk-uygur-meltdown-far-left-zeitgeist-also-pretty-funny/
I was just re-watching the Young Turks meltdown on election night 2016 the other night. Cenk is an endlessly entertaining clown.
“Chunk Yogurt”. Not bad.
The tweets are coming from inside the house!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-nation_conservatism
Fun-fact: I used to think this was referring to nationalism and opposing Scottish, Welsh and Irish nationalism but in reality it was a reference to class conflict and is a predecessor to Bismarkian welfare statism.
It was classical liberalism first serious threat before the socialists gained power on the left.
There are 3 contending ideas in all political philosophical debates. Liberty, Equality, and a third one that used to be Tradition, but now is unpinned from history as it lost decisively in the first World War. When the forces of Tradition ran the world Equality and Liberty made common cause, and Liberty was deceived into believing that Equality was an ally, when in fact it was its bitterest enemy.
Roberts must have got hold of the info the Ds had on him. He pimp slapped Moobs.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chief-justice-roberts-rare-rebuke-schumer-calling-comments-kavanaugh-gorsuch-dangerous
Chucky stepped over the line, IMO. Those were some not-so-veiled threats to specific justices.
Why am I not surprised that this freakout centers around an abortion case.
Chuck’s an asshole.
He wasnt on the senate floor, so, did Preet arrest him?
An Amazon employee has just been diagnosed with coronavirus.
If you order in the next two hours you can have it by Thursday.
Hi-yo! He’ll be here all week, try the veal.
boom.
mic drop.
Third. They offer it globally
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/bezos-sanchez-coronavirus-amazon
MEET THE GUY WHO SERVICES HIS OWN FERRARI F40
I love car collectors like this. Drive the fucking thing!
I met a dude at a car show who rebuilt the engine on his Testarossa in his two-car garage. He had some great pictures in a photo album. I asked him if he would do it again and he shrugged and said: “Sure. It’s just a machine.”
Same with guns. Guys with expensive shotguns but won’t hunt with them. Seems like a huge waste to me
They’re for the trap range, duh.
^^This^^
If you’re going to buy it, use it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5zDPtrdQ-c
So the novelization of the latest Star Wars movie is being revealed online. Palpatine is a Clone and Rey’s Dad is Palpatine’s clone.
Dang so HM is still right about Palpatine…
LOL, here we go again.
Yeah, I’m definitely feeling some déjà vu.
I don’t know is a novelization of a movie released 4 months ago that few people bother to talk about here really a spoiler?
Sorry almost three months
I watched that video earlier today too.
Lucas’s pulp homage had enough inertia that the effete cum posh yet sinister Britishness as a characteristic of evil tradition made it pass the Abrams/Disney “It’s [present year]!” filter it seems.
So he’s actually Palpatiine?
If your spoilerboner lasts more than four months, seek medical attention.
Nah I’m just pointing out the hilarious retcons of the new movie.
Same McGuirk?
https://youtu.be/EXv13WdLiMA
LOL!
Been there.
As long as there were juice boxes and rice crispy treats, all was well.
I accidentally shot myself in the scrotum with the poor kid’s pool chain from 6 weeks away and a state primary fell out my ass. It’s all here in this bus they brought me in. We go back to the home afterwards, it’s lights out bed time at 5 o’clock. I can’t pee straight in the morning when old Ethel Merman used to be on the talkies signing and waving that damn flag. I knew Jack, yeah everybody knew Jack. Wouldn’t stop a bullet from Red Charlie. No sir, you gotta pull it to keep moving otherwise the old man in the window don’t see ya there. What’d you order? Bag sag of onions and some corn bread was all we had, buck-fifty. All week. Corn something, or was it a corn dog? He was a bad dude.
But what about your leg hair?
it’s been covered
Bravo, I LOL’d.
I bet there’s a random Joe-gibberish generator out there.
Yeah and it is about to be the Democratic nominee for President.
LOL
Ha, given the vegans/Jill Biden link, this isn’t even OT.
So this popped up on my browser (at work), and well, it is derp that should be shared to be appreciated.
“As a fat woman working in food justice…”
*closes browser tab*
Thats about where I quit, too
You guys are missing out on a litany of complaints from an angry and morbidly obese woman who has no concept of how the world works other than that it’s unfair.
You write as if we actually want to read that
You must be using a novel definition of “missing out”
Dude, you didn’t even get to the GOOD stuff.
I made it a few sentences in.
Then I cursed at my screen and left.
“What angered me then – and angers me still – is that we didn’t have anything to be ashamed of. We weren’t the ones who made fresh food a luxury and junk food an easily obtained comfort.”
You also weren’t the ones who fed the world and went a long way to ending starvation.
Fresh food has always been a luxury. It’s just that for most of human history, food has been a luxury.
I have not yet found anywhere in this country where fresh food is more expensive than junk food overall. Yes, top shelf fresh food is more expensive than bottom dollar junk food. But that is not an apples to apples comparison. There is also top shelf junk food and bottom dollar fresh food. People aren’t buying potato chips because they’re cheap, they’re buying potato chips because they’re delicious or at least satisfying. Nobody is getting obese off of bulk canned meat, canned vegetables, and burlap sack starches. That is what cheap food looks like, and apart from preservatives, tends to be nutritiously sufficient.
You eat junk food because you like it. You might think it’s cheaper because you’ve decided that anything other than top shelf fresh food doesn’t count. It does, and that’s your problem not the world’s.
“Food justice is not about forcing people to eat food they don’t want. It’s about changing the world they live in so they can make choices about what they eat, and believing that those choices will lead them to a healthier and more enjoyable diet. ”
OFFS, she literally wants to have her cake and eat it too.
And she apparently has a lot of cake.
Scrolled down at that link and found this. Having gone through this wringer a bit recently, I thought it was pretty funny. ::lights Glib writers signal::
“DRAW GREAT BIG DICKS ON BATHROOM WALLS ”
heh…the Englewood Kroger, in the side-lot, has a space where someone spray-painted a crude dick-n-balls in a parking space
Jugsy was appalled and said “who does that? Kids?” I said, “me, if you hand me a can of spray-paint”
The girl I’m spending the majority of my time with keeps asking me why her 10 y/o son does this or that . . . She’s always enraged by something he does. I think the kid has been lucky I’ve been around lately, because I keep telling her that he’s just being a boy. She grew up in a female dominated house and really doesn’t understand boys at all.
‘sup home-team?
LETS GO FLYERS!
Chillin’ with New Cat on my lap. You?
LET’S GO FLYERS!!!
New Cat?
Well, the same one we’ve had for a few weeks. Humane Society just followed up with an e-mail to ask how things are going and pester us to take him to the vet even though they gave him a complete exam shortly before we brought him home.
Taking a cat to the vet is a very special kind of hell. I think the Humane Society is in the pocket of Big Veterinary.
Do any vets near you make house calls?
It’s probably not worth the extra cost to get a house call. This cat may not be as bad as Previous Cat – that one would get downright frantic at the vet’s, and it would take multiple staffers to hold him down for whatever they needed to do and to get him back in the crate.
Once when we took Previous Cat to the vet, they didn’t get the top and bottom of his crate latched back together securely. When Mr. GT got home and lifted the crate out of the back seat of the car, the crate fell apart. PC panicked and bolted, and we couldn’t find him for several days. Found out he was hiding under our next door neighbor’s yard barn, and it still took us a couple of days to coax him out and get him back in the house.
Remind me again why people love cats?
Because as they’re kneading their claws into your legs, they’re gazing up at you adoringly and purring.
We have a vet that makes house calls. Then again, we have seven cats. Because they are awesome little tigers in miniature.
dem LAIGS and hips? If she wasnt such an annoying cunte….WOULD
/with a pillowcase over my head
Doesn’t the pillowcase go over HER head?
Why not both, in her case.
/still like dem laigs
A round of applause for the comments. I am most certainly not disappoint.
Remember kids, the consummate professionals at the FBI and DOJ have your best interests at heart and would never lie.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/lori-loughlins-bombshell-claim-college-143025732.html
That certainly doesn’t sound like the FBI I know
Since when do they allow someone they are
intimidatinginterrogating to take notes?I believe their go-to move is to imply that you may not take notes or even record it, but they can’t and won’t stop you.
Schedule shift freed up my evening today. There was a point I dismissed flippantly over the weekend that I wanted to give a more serious treatment. From time to time, I hear that Christianity, particularly the conservative flavors, is a bulwark against leftism/big govt.
Here are some reasons why I doubt that:
-Every country south of the Rio Grande is majority Christian and all of them have or have had leftist/authoritarian governments.
-Russia was probably the most conservative Christian country in the world in 1917 and that did nothing to stop communism.
-Nearly every congresscritter who voted in favor of the income tax, prohibition, and the war on drugs was a Christian.
-If Christians had been opposed to the New Deal, Social Security, etc, FDR would not have been re-elected 3 times.
-There are and have been many influential Christian Socialist parties in Europe.
-William Jennings Bryan nearly became president, and he was a fundamentalist Christian who promised to inflate the currency so farmers could pay off their debts more easily.
The Gospels contain many passages that are critical of capitalism/private property: you cannot serve both god and mammon, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get to heaven, store treasure in heaven and not on earth, etc. Even the phrase “to each according to his needs” comes from Acts 4:35.
Even in the Old Testament, there is the prohibition on charging interest and the forgiveness of debts every 50 years. There’s no way a modern market economy could survive that.
Christians *can* be pro-liberty and sometimes are, but I say that is because they choose to ignore or re-interpret what the Bible says.
Jefferson, Madison, Friedman, Bastiat, Hayek – none of them were Christians. Well, maybe Bastiat was, but he didn’t say much about it.
Alright, I said my piece. Launch your tomatoes!
” forgiveness of debts every 50 years.”
Argentina is counting on that one.
I should add that Christian majority countries feature prominently on this list of worst cases of hyperinflation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation#Notable_hyperinflationary_episodes
So your argument is that there have been Christians, or at least culturally Christan folk in places that went commie and that Jesus encouraged charity, therefore Christianity is naturally communist and what? Atheism is a bulwark against a philosophy that is expicitily atheist? Sorry, not tomato worthy, would you settle for a scoff?
Saying Christianity isn’t a bulwark against Communism isn’t the same as saying that Atheism is. Similar to Mojo’ Law about praising/criticizing Trump.
My bad you weren’t saying that he said that you were questioning him, ignore me and carry on.
Fair enough, and if the argument had stopped with the Christianity is not a bulwark I’d not have added that, but:
and
sure seem to be going further toward Christianity is pro commie rather than just not a bulwark.
I accept your scoff graciously.
Jesus did not just encourage charity; he encouraged asceticism. That’s why monks take a vow of poverty.
Christianity is not necessarily pro-socialist, but it’s pretty hard to argue it’s pro-capitalist. Some of the biggest critics of capitalism were clergymen.
Atheism isn’t a political philosophy, though most of the ones I have known are leftists of some sort.
As for a bulwark, I found Bastiat and John Stuart Mill to be the most compelling.
Chesterton was probably the most influential Christian thinker since 1900 and guess what? He was a member of the socialist Fabian Society.
Clive Staples Lewis was probably the most influential Christian thinker since 1900 and guess what? He was emphatically not a member of the socialist Fabian Society.
at least if we are talking about intellectual discussion of Christianity. If we are really talking influence someon like Billy Graham or his predecessors is likely more important.
I really don’t wnat to end up writing 500 word comments here but I suggest that you are conflating a number of widely differing beliefs, misstating the message of the New Testament and I’m too tired to play this game the way it should be played, so I will leave it at this:
You are conflating beliefs held by a faction of the Catholic Church and in many cases a faction deeply influenced by the Marxists, with “Christianity”, and I know a slew of protestants who would take issue with that characterization.
To the extent that Jesus encouraged charity (not asceticism) he was encouraging private and voluntary charity. He urged the wealthy man to give away his wealth, he did not urge others to take it and redistribute it. The distinction is not a trivial one, it is the essence of the question.
Christianity is the largest religion in the world ,over a quarter of all human beings practice some variant of it. Sweeping claims about it are unlikely to be universally true.
Noted. The render unto Caesar thing though- if Jesus thought it was fine to pay taxes to what at the time was seen as a corrupt and evil government, what does that say?
The political attitude of early Christians seems to be mostly indifference and a desire to be left alone, which is fairly libertarian.
Later, when the Christians got power, things changed.
Because Jesus didn’t want your money, he wanted your soul, or that which belonged to God.
The church just expanded on what “belonged to God” for their own benefit.
Makes sense.
I read a story about some priest from a podunk town in the 1500s. Anyway, he won a prize and was excited to go on a trip to Rome. An older priest who knew about all the shenanigans going on there at the time thought that it would kill the faith of the young priest. I forget the ending, but the gist was something like “if it’s this bad in Rome, how much worse the rest of the world must be!”
Religion’s got nuthin’ to do with it.
*squints*
I can’t really see how any religion can be a bulwark against a total state. That’s kind of the point of theocracy after all.
I think there are only 2 explicitly pro-liberty religions: Wicca and Satanism
“And it harm none, do as you will.” – Wiccan Rede
“The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one’s own.” – Church of Satan
“Here at least, we shall be free.” – Satan arrives in hell, Paradise Lost
Derpy is feeling his oats this evening.
I’m just gonna go grab some popcorn.
Am I mistaken, or is Wicca really rooted in more than Crowley’s eccentric intellect?
Crowley was the Church of Satan guy. Wicca started in England in the 1920s. Of course, they say they are reviving a much older tradition that the meany Christians stomped out.
Yes, the Wiccans like to play the cishetero patriarchical overlord supremacist game too.
I think you’re mistaken about Crowley – definitely not Church of Satan, though apparently not Wicca.
You’re right. I mixed him up with LaVey.
More on Thelema:
I think you’re making associations where none exist. Christianity is neither pro or anti-liberty. Sure, there are a couple anti-capitalistic passages in a book chock full of inconsistencies. Big surprise.
And postmodernism does not logically (pun intended) lend itself to socialism, but just about every postmodernist of significance is avowedly socialist or communist.
Humans are adept at finding the patterns they prefer.
You need to distinguish between branches of Christianity. South of the border is overwhelmingly Catholic, and the church for the looooongest time was perfectly okay with wild inequality – as long as the rich paid the vig.
No Reformation, no capitalism.
Protestantism didn’t seem to do much to inoculate the US, England, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, etc against big govt.
No kidding. Progressivism was rooted in Protestant belief in the early days – perfectability (or at least improvement) of [white] man. The Social Gospel. All kinds of old-timey connections, that shared a link back to Puritanism.
Not all of Protestantism was supportive of capitalism and liberalism; and very little of Catholicism was.
Meh, I’ve been one of those “born-again” Christians since my late teens. In that time I’ve been so far to the left that I would have hated Obama as a sell-out, a Christian reconstructionist, a late 20th century American conservative, a classic liberal, a libertarian, pretty close to an anarcho-capitalist, and a believer in The Hyperbole-ism and Heroic Mulatto-ism. In every case, I’ve been able to rationalize my political belief with my religious beliefs.
Bottom line: I think religion is about something other than politics and that any religious belief can be used to justify any political ideology.
*heads for the kitchen for more Irish Whiskey*
The more interesting question is about transference of omnipotence that happens in a lot of secularly-devoted people – where the power (and benevolence) of god is transformed into the state.
Not sure there’s a much of an ideological difference between various forms of despotism. Stalin’s mother once asked him what he did, and he said he was the general secretary of the communist party. When she didn’t understand, he said do you remember the czar? I’m kind of like him.
Wan sui ([may you live]10,000 years) was a traditional exultation for Chinese emperors, but it didn’t take long for people to start saying it about Mao.
As for the body count, communism remains the most compelling argument for a monarchy.
My point is less about Stalin and more about those who did [or still] worship him. Think of how the Party can be viewed as the Elect (in Calvinism) – only those of true faith!
The Enlightenment crippled the church and there were a lot of people who wanted it back but couldn’t rationalize it.
So they created a new church. Kant, Hegel, Rousseau, et al all bemoaned the loss of the guiding light and moral authority of the church and sought to replace it with something else, anything but rank individualism.
I guess to sum up, I think America being a nation of immigrants and settlers did a lot more to encourage a capitalist/individualist culture than Christianity. It’s similar to the way overseas Chinese and Jews often end up as wealthy merchants. When a group is in a sink or swim situation, they usually learn how to swim.
OK. That’s enough out of me for tonight I think. Best wishes to all except Bloomberg.
We were somewhat separated from the 19th century German influence and had a strong pioneer ethic from expanding Westward. That, along with our explicitly Lockean founding documents, is what kept us from wholly adopting collectivism earlier.
But all good things end…
“Coronavirus-themed porn is going viral”
https://nypost.com/2020/03/04/coronavirus-themed-porn-is-going-viral/
Of course it is…
Starting season 3 of Stranger Things; I enjoyed Season 2, not too many glaring “why would you do that?” moments. However – they’re in a small, Midwest down and literally nobody has a gun? I sort of get the single mothers, but there’s not a single duck hunter in these families? Not a shotgun to be found, other than the Chief’s.
Wonder how long hand sanitizer is going to be sold out? Went to pick up a bottle of specialty one with hand cream from 3M for frequent use from the medical supply and it was completely gone, along with the regular Purell stuff as expected. Stuff isn’t cheap either. Damn.
Jan-San supply store guy told me today he was back ordered for at least two months on sanitizer and masks.
My bro lives in Brisbane Australia. All of his markets are completely out of toilet paper.
People are completely insane.