“May as well take a pee now.”
Rusty tin can lids. Very effective. Anyway, with Banjos tied up (and Sloopy will let her go any week now), you get to have my links and oddball music for the third day in a row. Oh joy.
Birthdays today include a guy who may have invented the chemistry set; a guy who was hot, hot, hot; a guy who was no sadist; some uggo chick with a tiara; a guy who was nothing great but sure better than his predecessor; Matt Gaetz’s spirit animal; a guy who stuck Detroit in the toilet and made the first flush; a woman who fit perfectly into the Chicago mayoral tradition; my personal hero; and a guy with the distinction that every cover of his songs was better than the original.
News for your Monday.
Remember when this was racist?
A trillion here, a trillion there, and before you know it, it’s a lot of money.
Politicizing the whole Covid thing shockingly leads to political results. Huh.
We’re not antisemites, we just think the Jews are genocidal Nazis.
We’re not antisemites, we’re just fighting the good fight.
We seem to have no shortage here.
Old Guy Music is more proof of my earlier assertion in the Birthday list.
“Birthdays today include a guy who may have invented the chemistry set;”
Do they still make those? The old ones were neat.
Although nothing tops this for child safety
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_U-238_Atomic_Energy_Laboratory
WANT
Sweet
A school friend of mine had that set he inherited from an older brother. Somewhere in my old closet in my parent’s house sits a uranium sample from that set.
Wow!
I always wanted a chemistry set as a kid. These days they probably come with baking soda and vinegar.
And allow the children to produce more carbon dioxide? You monster!
I love it
Morning, old man.
I guess I prefer a $400,000,000,000 price tag to $2,300,000,000,000.
Yeah, it’s like getting a reach-around when they fuck us.
“global cactus trafficker” is not a phrase I expected to hear this morning.
But it will be a song on my next album.
I thought it was going to be about the people who go out and collect peyote cacti.
Yeah, they just cheapened the term “trafficker.”
Continuation of a trend; we haven’t reached the absurd conclusion yet.
It’s what they used to call and escort, which is what they used to call a hooker, which is what they used to call a prostitute, which is what they used to call a harlot
“The officials were split on the strength of the intelligence, with one telling the Journal it needed more corroboration and another saying it was “of exquisite quality” and “very precise.” Both agreed that the intelligence stopped short of confirming the researchers had contracted coronavirus. ”
Yes, it stops short. At this point I don’t think there will ever be direct evidence of its origin.
I’m sure there is plenty of direct evidence. We won’t be allowed to see it, of course.
It’s paper shredders and incinerators all the way down.
Maybe there was, but I’m thinking the Chinese would have destroyed it by now.
Say what you will about the nazis, they kept good records about their crimes.
Education has become an increasingly important factor in how people vote. People with college degrees are far more likely to vote Democratic, while those without one are far more likely to vote Republican.
Right now, 21 of the top 25 states for vaccination have an above average percentage of adults 25 and older with a college degree. The inverse is also true: 21 of the bottom 25 states for vaccination rates have a below average percentage of adults with a college degree.
How many of the people who have gotten the vaccine put ketchup on their hot dogs
I think it proves that universities are extremely adept at teaching the Top Men theory of governance.
ding ding ding
Propaganda works.
“But, but… surely you’ve read the reporting from CNN / BBC / NYT (etc.) !”
Yes. Yes, I have.
There’s more to learning than a good memory: sheesh!
I can’t be arsed to actually read the article, but I can tell you that in Michigan, it’s the cities (minorities) that are not getting the vaccine. Detroit is lagging well behind the state despite giving a $50 gift card for getting the jab (Hi, Swiss!).
Inserting something into your body with no idea what the long-term health risks are for the promise of $50? May as well be a street hooker.
It was funny when they started allowing 12 years old to get the vaccine. The city immediately stopped giving the gift cards. Not because people were bringing in vans full of kids, but because they didn’t want it to look weird paying people to vaccinate minors.
“Underage? Let an adult jab you for fifty bones!”
Yeah, that’s unseemly.
OMWC approves!
These tend to be the people who vote for a living, and were probably holding out for the bribe. They trust government to take care of them.
Whores come in many forms.
It infuriates me to no end that states are bribing people to get vaccines. I can see the legitimacy of government providing and facilitating public health efforts, sorta; but how is paying people to get vaccinated at all a legitimate function of government or use of tax dollars.
It makes me that much less likely to accept it.
I wonder what past government actions might make minorities hesitant to get a vaccination?
This writer clearly hasn’t met the typical Democrat voter from Philadelphia.
The lab leak hypothesis seems to have grown legs over the weekend. What changed? Did the Dems decide Fauci is expendable now?
Even he is backpedaling
“REVEALED: Three Wuhan lab researchers were hospitalized in November 2019 and Dr Fauci now says he’s ‘not convinced’ COVID developed naturally and calls for a full investigation into ‘what went on in China'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9610069/Dr-Fauci-says-hes-not-convinced-COVID-19-formed-naturally.html
Must have his plausible deniability argument prepared.
That reeks of a man who knows that the truth is going to come out and he wants to avoid the blame.
If Peter Daszak dies in the near future, I won’t be surprised.
Followed by Fauci announcing his retirement from government service and appointment to a sinecure with the Clinton Foundation.
Quite possibly. The State really is like the mafia – they’ll pretend to show you loyalty and camaraderie for years, but the second you slip up or outlive your usefulness, they’ll chop you up and throw you in dumpsters.
At least mafia guys had snazzy style and inspired some of the best movies ever… Politicians are just lameass old men in ill-fitting suits.
“global cactus trafficker” is not a phrase I expected to hear this morning.
But it will be a song on my next album.
It would look good on a business card, too.
Maybe with a little gold leaf and some green accents. Definitely letter press printed with a bone colored paper and using the Cilian Rail font.
Ixnay on the Brochetta love call, there.
I knew it was Bob Dylan before I clicked. And you are wrong. Not entirely, but not every cover is better.
Baseball birthdays, Bartolo Colon, Brad Penny, and no one else worth discussing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVFsq9FQBlc
So what were you thinking when you predicted Everton beating City yesterday?
Max pain. I would have been right on both predictions if it had happened, as Everton would have still finished 8th on goal differential. That hurts worse than proving how much they suck and finishing an appropriate 10th.
With no ability to score, they should have been nowhere near a Euro spot. Right back and right wing and an entirely new midfield are the priorities for the summer. Not asking much, am I?
Yeah that one was too easy for OMWC’s clues. I’m not even going to count it as a win. And while you are correct that not every cover is better, chances are that their is at least one cover that is better than Dylan’s.
It’d be a good challenge: Find Dylan covers worse than the originals.
Did the Beach Boys ever cover Bob?
Yes – and it’s awful.
https://youtu.be/0Lhcrti2lzA
Apparently.
And the winner is:
Mr. Tambourine Man
You again?
Birthdays today include a guy who may have invented the chemistry set.
At this point, 17 of the top 25 states for vaccinations have a larger share of their residents living in urban areas than the national average. Just 8 have below the national average of urban residents. Three (Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont) are in New England, where there is the countervailing trend of having a well-educated adult population.
Among the bottom 25, 17 have a larger proportion of their population living in rural areas than the average state.
What makes the urban and rural split disappointing is that rural areas actually had a jump start on vaccinations. More rural residents said they had been vaccinated as of late March, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll. But as supplies became more available, that trend reversed itself in the same poll.
The urban/rural split that became so familiar manifested.
It’s not exactly clear what if anything can be done to stop the vaccination campaign trends from looking like the trends that rule our political world. The polling shows rural, non-college educated and Republican adults are far more likely to say they don’t want the vaccine (i.e. they’re vaccine resistant, not just vaccine hesitant).
The scary thing is if something that can save a lot of lives has fallen into the usual political traps, then pretty much anything can.
The hicks steadfastly decline to become part of the media establishmentarian hive mind. How do we rescue them from their ignorant heresy?
*faints*
then pretty much anything can
Something hasn’t?
Remember when this was racist?
At this point what difference etc….
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XbOx8TyvUmI (for OMWC)
A trillion here, a trillion there, and before you know it, it’s a lot of money. – send a million my way would you?
Only if you promise to spend it all on Raytheon products.
I’d say never change CNN, but it isn’t like it ever will. Maybe one day all of you stupid voters will realize how stupid you are and listen to us tell you that you are stupid and just need to do what we tell you.
“Analysis”
That got a chuckle out of me.
This is agitprop for the base, to remind them that, despite the best efforts of all the top men, “the opposition is stupid and we should help them” isn’t working. What’s needed is “the other party is evil and should be put into camps.”
If you republicans would just vote Democrat, we’ll quit saying mean things about you -CNN
Q hit hardest.
Is ogling high school girls pedophilia?
My son’s commencement was full of girls that are majoring in dance, ballet mostly.
I had to wear the extra dark shades at the ceremony for my own safety.
+1 ballet body
There’s a different word for that, hebephilia.
what a typical libertarian answer
If words are violence and political silence is hatred, then yes, ogling is assault. Welcome to your Brave New World.
Mornin’ folks.
And happy birthday, Bob. You are completely correct, Old Man. He was destined to write songs for others to cover. Still, not a bad career.
I’ll take the million dollar Nobel. Bobby don’t need it.
China has contributed to the suspicion, with the lab not releasing records related to its work on coronaviruses in bats. Meanwhile, Beijing has pushed a series of wild theories, including that the coronavirus spread through imported frozen food packaging and originated at a biomedical research facility at Fort Detrick in Maryland.
I thought the morons in New Zealand blamed contaminated frozen food shipments for one or more of their “outbreaks”.
You don’t say.
Saying China has contributed to the suspicion = Saying water has contributed to the wet.
Say what you will of China, they controlled the narrative splendidly although the fact that every western politician salivates at the though of having china level power helped
Some of the stealth edits that Vox made to its article debunking “conspiracy theories” that Covid-19 originated in a lab leak between its original publication in March 2020 and now.
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1396769717805780994
The record should, after all, state what should have been said not what was actually said
Remember when a news source changing 3 words in a published article was a big deal, and none less than the editor-in-chief would make sure everyone in the country knew what they were changing and why?
Today we’re to completely editing the entire meaning of an article after its political purpose has been accomplished, stealthily, hoping no one notices, but when they do, it’s no big deal because nothing ever comes of it.
“How To Shill For the Democrats Explained”
The new ultimate participation trophy.
That dipshit is still around? I thought he had been shuffled off.
Is that a death threat?
Tommy wouldn’t be worth the effort.
*reads headline*
*laughs self to death*
*sigh*
The only jobs my employer has lined up are exteriors and the fucking rain over the last couple of weeks is making my working class trash ass go broke. Time to pick up a side hustle.
You wanna make $14 the hard way?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dgxzItaQzw
Have you considered an Onlyfans.com account ?
I don’t think anybody would pay to see me play with myself. Hell, I don’t want to see that either.
Rule 34, dude.
So you’re saying I have a customer? 😉
*dons Steve Young’s old BYU jersey, drops trousers*
Legit LOL
Some present kids will grow up to fetishize face masks. /shudder
I’m pretty sure somebody in the porn industry is already capitalizing on that trend. They’re always the leaders.
So I gather from comments here.
I meant in the more latent and organic sense.
I’m sure that ship has sailed. https://youtu.be/19ZUFvfIlr8?t=399
Yashmak tradition excepted.
Man… local news really has the narrative they want to push about the end of the supplemental $300/week unemployment benefits being cut. There’s no less then three stories on their main web page about it, and how it may hurt Ohio. It appears their thought process is that since the money won’t be getting sent in anymore, those unemployed people won’t be able to spend it and that’ll be a net loss to the economy. Not that it may help drive people to take one of the jobs that are available. FFS, Cedar Point (amusement park) just announced a starting wage of $20/hr for this year, up $10/hr since last year.
Just saw a story that they are also not going to be open some days this summer due to staffing. My brother worked there for a few years and said it was like hedonism once the park closed.
Yeah, opening weekend was a flurry of complaints about understaffed rides and food stands. So Cedar Point announced they’re going to be closed most weekdays through June (and they were increasing the pay to try to attract more workers). They’ve also been having issues bringing in their overseas workers they usually use to fill the ranks as well.
All the overseas “workers” are gainfully employed @ Rattlesnake Island. Duh.
Our local Cedar Fair park is also closed during the week until late June. It doesn’t matter. I’m not going until they lift the mask mandate.
Cedar Point announced before opening no masks on rides or outside, I think they were still requesting them for going into buildings, but that should end on June 2nd.
Masks are only required for unvaccinated 5+, so kids 5-11 are stuck wearing masks all day. I’m not going subject a kid to that.
Just confirmed that Cedar Point is going with masks recommended outside, and only required for unvaccinated people indoors while not actively eating/drinking. So skip the gift shops, and no masks needed.
There’s a decent chance that will go away in the next couple weeks as well.
Kings Dominion looks similar, except 5+ instead of 10+ also:
CP:
KD:
Rat on a train:
That sucks. Here’s hoping you get some sanity out there in the coming months.
Sanity? Blackface doesn’t want to ease up. If the campaign ads are any indication, life isn’t going to get better when McAwful returns.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9612217/Demi-Rose-puts-busty-display-teases-exciting-news-sizzling-new-snap.html
“Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer apologizes for violating her own state-mandated social distancing guidelines after she was pictured sitting maskless with 12 other people inside a bar”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9611143/Michigan-governor-apologizes-social-distancing-blunder.html
CWAA
“I’m truly very sorry that you caught me.”
I believe in her case it’s more like CWAC.
Surely the Landshark will be fined and have its liquor license suspended like other bars that didn’t follow orders. Right?
Caught With A Cod ?
Its like Bruce Jenner had a baby with Demi Moore. Amirite ?
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/05/24/01/wire-43356271-1621817463-199_634x422.jpg
More like the Wicked Witch pulled herself out from under that house and it smooshed her face flat.
*ahem*
CWACé
Nature sucks.
My allergies are annoying today and I swear to God that the birds are targeting my front door and my windows.
.45 shotshells?
Neighbors. Not really feasible.
I am not familiar with guns. Is .45 shotshell insufficient to take down a neighbor?
Depends.
Mostly, yes.
Well, the Q-anon crowd moved on from ‘It was made in Wu-Han’ to ‘The Democrats made it and sent it to Wu-Han’, so now it’s ok for right-thinkers to consider that it was made in Wu-Han. As long as we get that damned Emmanuel Goldstein we all win.
https://twitter.com/WeirdInspiroBot/status/1396754065250340864
I can’t be arsed to actually read the article
Warning: this article contains sweeping generalities and unsubstantiated assertions known by the state of California to cause confusion. And cancer.
Progs want to defund the police, are shocked when private industry tries to step up to provide security services.
some people might even buy icky guns when before they owned none
“Citizen app wrongly accuses homeless man of starting a California wildfire and sends his photo to users along with the offer of a $30,000 bounty which was being paid for by the company’s CEO”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9611329/Citizen-app-CEO-offered-pay-bounty-wrongly-accused-homeless-man.html
What could possibly go wrong?
Well that was stupid.
Who could have seen that coming?
Texas’ Abbott says he’ll sign bill that will prevent cities from defunding police
Another pissing match between blue cities in red states.
TikTokers wished a 97-year-old Auschwitz survivor a ‘happy Holocaust’ as some ‘Free Palestine’ supporters target Jewish social media users with antisemitic abuse
https://news.yahoo.com/tiktokers-wished-97-old-auschwitz-100100279.html
Definitely white supremacists.
Stay classy, TikTok.
Gretchen Whitmer says she’s human.
Fact Check: egregiously false.
“Biden arrives back at the White House and prepares to DROP student loan forgiveness from next week’s budget: President BREAKS campaign promise to cancel $10,000 debt for 42 million Americans”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9610777/Biden-drop-student-loan-forgiveness-weeks-Budget.html
Don’t worry, they’ll promise it to buy votes again in 2024.
Cancel the 10 K, bump it up to 20K.
“Biden reneges on campaign promise”
So this will be like Obama’s alleged de-scheduling of marijuana (he’ll do it after he’s re-elected).
Technically, it’s only a broken promise if he fails to deliver before the end of his term. This isn’t dead, they’re just prioritizing bribes.
Nah, he’s not doing it. If he thinks he can cancel $10k with an executive order what is stopping him from trying?
HOTTEST BIKINI Steph Rayner, Pri Ricart, S.Jamora, Kara. Del Toro, Fashion Show Compilation 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPeqEyXfHKg
“Mayor of St. Louis – the murder capital of America – claims ‘more cops do not prevent crime’ after cutting $4million from department’s budget and pledging to close a prison”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9611691/St-Louis-mayor-cuts-4million-police-budget-eliminates-100-officer-vacancies.html
How about getting rid of all the stupid laws? Shall issue and ending drug prohibition would cut murders in half.
But think of the childrunz
Yeah, flooding the streets with violent criminals – as NYC is also doing – works wonders.
Kansas City looks at St. Louis and says: Hold my beer
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article251594753.html
You beat me to it.
Lucas is getting a little taste of power and he likes it.
“They (KCPD) just have to clearly outline how they’re going to use (the money) and document that publicly in a transparent process.”
Said the guy that does shit in secret.
I think Missouri is a “constitutional carry” state.
It is! But what the governor/R legislature won’t do, the blue counties and municipalities will.
So, are the municipalities free to issue restrictions and require permits? Asking for a friend who was just in St. Louis and may have carried.
I’m not sure if they can override that in toto or not, but they CAN do it for government-owned buildings.
What I had in mind was the mask mandate. Red gov and red legislature refused to put anything in place, but the counties, cities, and municipalities did.
Those vacancies in St. Louis PD have been open for years and could never be filled even when budgeted for. Many people believe that is primarily due to this requirement:
*Reside in the City of St. Louis or will take up residence in the City within 120 days of completion of the initial working test (probationary) period.
Well, Kansas City has/had that too, but they worked around it. Whenever they wanted to hire somebody who did not live in KC and was not willing to move, they just annexed quite a bit of land surrounding that person’s home. It’s why KC’s so fucking huge (land-wise).
Talk of merging STL County and the City or changing the boundary has been going on for decades and gains little traction in the County.
I don’t quite understand how St Louis City and St Louis County work. I know there are a lot of little fiefdoms around those parts (e.g., Ferguson) and they each exact their pound of flesh from its inhabitants as you roll through a succession of them on your way to and from work.
KC is just one big mass with one big PD to cover it all. There are hamlets and villages here and there, but they’re usually only a few blocks’ worth of land and usually have one rent-a-cop and only the nearby residents have any reason to roll through them. And remember, KCPD is under state control.
I honestly don’t know what the KC mayor thought he could do without the state’s permission and the state is not happy.
88 little fiefdoms at last count….. completely Balkanized.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipalities_of_St._Louis_County,_Missouri
Wow, even NYC doesn’t do that.
They WANT to, of course.
Government employee housing!
“Antisemitism and Islamophobia” thread.
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1396651519521525762
Are people attacking Islamists as of late?
Seems to be a bit of a strawman.
Seems very coordinated.
You might need one of these.
“This is what all the statements should look like and this is all starting to feel like a calculated dynamic where Biden always says the right thing so that everyone else in his party can spout their bullshit. Pretty shrewd if you ask me.”
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1396806570957283331
All of them mention “Islamophobia” and “Islamophobic attacks”. Have I been missing something? Are they talking about Gaza? Because I haven’t heard of any happening here.
Rand Paul, notorious SCIENCE! hater
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said Sunday that he is not getting vaccinated because he has already had Covid-19.
Speaking with a conservative host on WABC radio in New York, Paul, an ophthalmologist, said he won’t change his mind unless “they show me evidence that people who have already had the infection are dying in large numbers or being hospitalized or getting very sick.”
“I just made my own personal decision that I’m not getting vaccinated, because I’ve already had the disease, and I have natural immunity,” Paul said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that people who have been infected still get vaccinated because experts are not certain how long natural immunity lasts.
Everything we ever knew about disease, viruses and immunity is wrong, apparently.
That’s good to know.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that people who have been infected still get vaccinated because experts are not certain how long natural immunity lasts.
But also booster shots.
They do know that immunity to SARS-1 lasts for well over a decade. But they’re not mentioning that, are they?
They’re either liars or idiots. I know what I’ve got my money on.
Can’t it be both?
“Speaking with a conservative host on WABC radio in New York, Paul, an ophthalmologist,…”
“..has repeatedly clashed at Senate hearings with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert…”
Well, there ya go. How can some eye-doctor have a clue whats right compared to St. Fauci ?
Also notice how the media never refer to him as “Dr. Rand Paul,” yet scrupulously do that for Fauci, and even some political wife with a PhD in education.
Credentialism for me, but not for thee!
Im also curious how to attain the title of “gov’t top disease expert”. Are there try-outs ? Do you have a peer-reviewed body of work that elevates you over your contemporaries ? Do you apply for the position ? Or are you honestly no better than some political hack that kisses ass, and isnt any more important to me than “Employee of the Month” at my local McDonald’s franchise.
Hell, the McD’s person actually serves people.
It was a reality/competition show on some cable/satellite channel – I forget which. TLC maybe?
That’s what I’ve wondered from the get-go. It’s really absurd. Are they claiming that the highest-ranked government official over a certain agency that deals with X is “the foremost expert” on X? Are they asserting that the government has a perfect ability to identify and recruit the most knowledgeable people in the nation on any subject?
For me, “government” nullifies the rest of the phrase anyway.
An expert is someone who other people call an expert.
It’s like the old days — you were a “master” when people showed up to learn from you.
Everything we ever knew about disease, viruses and immunity is wrong, apparently.
Today. Please stop trying to actually remember things you shouldn’t remember. You must rely on the media to tell you everyday what reality is that day, and never attempt to compare that reality with yesterday’s reality. That will lead to thought-crime.
Remember all the bodies in China at the beginning of the WuFlu? Remember the Hong Kong uprising that was occurring at the time? Remember how deadly the WuFlu turned out not to be? I wonder what happened to all those Hong Kong dissidents?
LOL, that never happened.
Yeah, DrOtto. What are you, some kind of asshoe?
DEMOCRACY!
So far, more than 2 million have signed a petition calling for $2,000 monthly stimulus checks for every American. This petition was started by Stephanie Bonin, a Colorado restaurant owner, and was first posted on Change.org last year, reports Business Insider.
In Bonin’s petition statement, she says that she is one of millions of Americans who fear for their financial future because of the COVID-19 crisis. “With businesses and schools closing across the country to control the spread of this virus, many people have already lost their jobs. Others are being forced to stay home. This is catastrophic for working families like mine.”
“I’m calling on Congress to support families with a $2,000 payment for adults and a $1,000 payment for kids immediately, and continuing regular checks for the duration of the crisis,” said Bonin. “Otherwise, laid-off workers, furloughed workers, the self-employed, and workers dealing with reduced hours will struggle to pay their rent or put food on the table,” she said.
Okay, then.
Now let’s vote on food prices.
Resto owner, eh?
Grifter or naïf?
I’m circulating a petition saying that every person in America should get a million dollars every two years. I expect it to be very popular.
every person in America and me
Sure, why not. Americans like pie. It would be unpatriotic
not to include you.
He’s an American as far as I’m concerned, if he will hold still for a gentle noogie*.
*see also “the bumps”
Why food in Britain is so much better than in France
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-food-in-britain-is-so-much-better-than-in-france#
The traditional brasseries of France are now often mere theatres pretending to be restaurants. They serve sous-vide pot au feu, supplied from gigantic industrial commissaries, run, inevitably, by an American private equity group. The food is reheated by a kitchen technician on minimum wage. The service is as undistinguished as the food. There are never enough staff because the employment code makes it too expensive to hire more. Good luck finding a restaurant that’s open, given the limited hours and eccentric schedules of many. Show up in my village looking for lunch after 1.30 p.m. and you’ll starve.
The decline of French cuisine has tracked precisely the descent of the country itself during the past 40 inglorious years of economic stagnation. The great reopening of café and restaurant terraces should have been a renaissance moment after we have been denied any restaurant experience at all for eight months. But, predictably, it will be another opportunity for the French state to demonstrate its instinct for excessive, ridiculous over-regulation of everythin
“Show up in my village looking for lunch after 1.30 p.m. and you’ll starve.”
Guess you dont have Hot Pockets over there. Or Chef-Boy-Ardee.
Or Ramen.
Frenchman reads Tres‘ comment, suffers seizures.
This is missing some quotes around “fact-checkers” but otherwise spot on.
https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1396581749665140738
Referencing the fact-checking of the lab leak hypothesis back in the Fall of 20. Now they’re back-pedaling and trying to cover their asses.
Fact checking, ass covering, what’s the difference? What started out as maybe a good idea has been skinsuited.
I’m not certain politifact was ever not skinsuited.
Hugo Boss suited morelikely.
This isn’t dead, they’re just prioritizing bribes.
Something something some of the people all the time, all the people some of the time.
“ Meanwhile, Beijing has pushed a series of wild theories, including that the coronavirus spread through imported frozen food packaging and originated at a biomedical research facility at Fort Detrick in Maryland.”
To be fair, those theories aren’t any wilder than any other theories that don’t blame the Wuhan lab. That’s obviously where it came from with partial funding from various US entities and god knows who else who were shimmying around the rules.
The scandal here is how the media stepped up to protect the governmental bureaucracies and Fauci in particular.
I can hope that there will be some fallout from it, but I doubt it.
It’s been politicized to the point that going after Fauci et al would be devastating to the preferred narrative so you’re probably right.
There will be fallout, eventually. Consequences deferred become consequences magnified (probably well out of proportion). That’s the whole reason no one trusts institutions anymore – because the institutions don’t deserve the trust. This is going to lead to a much larger breakdown then was necessary if the institutions had been accountable.
Consequences deferred become consequences magnified
New Iron Law?
OMG. The IRS finally finished my 2019 return.
Don’t spend it all on booze and ammo
Save some for the hookers.
Too late
Look at this big ol’ chonky boi
https://twitter.com/BDaveWalters/status/1396281714645749764
I thought fat shaming fish is no longer acceptable?
Huh, I’ve never seen a shark with a double chin before.
Jabberjaw hardest hit.
Is that Demi Rose in tiger print below?
Waseem Awawdeh, 23, was held on $10,000 bail in the Thursday attack, in which he is accused of beating Joseph Borgen, 29, with crutches and punching, kicking and pepper-spraying him.
“If I could do it again, I would do it again,” he told one of his jailers, according to a prosecutor at Awawdeh’s Saturday arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court. “I have no problem doing it again.”
Mighty fine lawyerin’ there April.
https://twitter.com/TrumpJew2/status/1396455406508167168
LOL
More mindful individuals were only more charitable in their words, but not in their deeds.
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1395955741471748096
No shit
When you receive social points for voicing your empathy but not actually doing anything, this is what happens.
Without clicking in, I’m gonna go ahead and say that this should be obvious. The most charitable people I know do what they do quietly and without a political bent.
Sounds of Silence: Social exclusion makes the wold appear quieter.
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1396793798961815554
It’s the opposite for me. The louder a room gets, the less engaged I am socially, since I can’t hear what any one person is saying.
Yesterday egould310 recommended Dead Sushi:
My wife and I watched it last night and laughed the entire time. Two thumbs up!
+1
“This should be the biggest story in the news. It appears Russian operatives tracked an opposition journalist onto a commercial flight, then Belarus forced that flight to land in Minsk just to detain the journalist”
https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1396597715442749443
“Wow: this is news. US citizens on the flight ups the ante. This may be over EU territory, but it now includes US passengers.”
https://twitter.com/biannagolodryga/status/1396598328985522180
the US did the same in the Evo Morales grounding incident
Yes
The US has no moral authority in this at all.
“Air Piracy: KGB Nabs Dissident Journalist in Brazen Midair Arrest
In reports Sunday morning that read like a Tom Clancy novel, it appears the tyrannical government of Belarus successfully nabbed Roman Protasevich, a dissident activist who exposed the violence carried out by Belarusian authorities. And while arresting dissidents is standard operating procedure for dictators, such arrests aren’t usually carried out while the target is cruising though the arresting nation’s airspace while traveling between two sovereign European Union countries on an Irish airline.
Protasevich became a thorn in the side of Belarus’ president when he shared with the world the extent of Lukashenko’s brutal crackdown on civilians and journalists and helped protestors organize in the wake of a rigged election….
According to the editor in chief of Protasevich’s outlet, a bomb threat aboard the flight was created as pretext to force the Ryanair flight from Athens bound for Lithuania to land in Belarus, and a military jet was reportedly scrambled to lead the commercial plane to Minsk where no bomb was found and Protasevich was arrested. ”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2021/05/23/the-kgb-just-kidnapped-a-belarusian-dissident-flying-from-greece-to-lithuania-reports-n2589873
“…it appears the tyrannical government of Belarus successfully nabbed Roman Protasevich, a dissident activist…”
He doth PROTESTavich too much ?
/Ill see myself out
Now do Julian Assange.
Elián González would like a word, perhaps.
Speaking of Dylan, just 2 Wilburys left, right?
Good morning fellow Glibs. Hope you are all having a good start to your week.
I am not ready for Monday. But it is getting warmer, pool is open, garden will be planted this week, and I survived the 6 month ordeal called “having your kid in travel volleyball”. Twice a week practices since December, and 6 or more weekend tournaments. As of this week I get a bit more of my life back.
I Fed My Dog Bugs (And You Should, Too)
I became a mom for the first time this year—a dog mom, that is. In January, I adopted my first dog, a 1-year-old black lab/dachshund mix named T-Rex. (He has a huge head, a long body, and tiny, stumpy legs; he is perfect, thank you.)
Feed your mutant dogs bugs.
Like a lot of people, I came into 2021 with a goal to eat less meat, so it was weird to be making veggie burgers for myself to try and cut down on my personal carbon footprint while simultaneously giving this new critter in my life heaping helpings of beefy kibble. My instincts were right; pet food, it turns out, is a bigger environmental problem than many people realize. There’s an estimated 163 million cats and dogs in the U.S., and their diets really add up. One UCLA study estimated that pet food was responsible for 25% to 30% of all the environmental impacts of meat production in the U.S., including water and land use, and emits up to 64 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.
Seems like the logical conclusion is, pets are bad for the environment.
They really need to fuck right off with this eating bugs shit.
Indeed. If there is a hill to die on, this is it for me.
An ant hill?
Wait, would that make him King of the Ant Hill?
Zing!
They also need to fuck right off with the “dog mom” shit, too. You’re not the dog’s mother. You’re the dog’s owner. The mutt is not a child.
Don’t get me wrong – I really loved my old bird dog and was miserable for days when she died. But she was a dog. Not a human, not a child, a dog.
???
The dog as substitute child thing is annoying.
You people have children, you can’t judge the childless unless you’re one of them!
/parents complaining about childless criticizing their germbreeders and parenting (orlack thereof)
That’s a veritable Who’s Who of Bullshit
I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter.
The only pets I would feed bugs to are insectivores, like geckos.
Meh. Dogs will catch and eat bugs.
Can’t be any less nutritious than cat shit.
Just because they eat it doesn’t mean it’s good for them.
My old bird dog would eat carrion when she found it – and inevitably puke it up, usually in the truck on the way home. Dogs will eat any damn thing.
The one dog we had when I was a kid would catch and immediately swallow
Oops! The dog would catch and immediately swallow any small object you tossed toward him, so no higher-level thought processes involved.
Better than feeding your dog impossible meat I suppose
Seems like the logical conclusion is, pets are bad for the environment. – I linked a while back to a British dude saying the argument “you don;t really need this type of gun” can be made “you don;t really need a pet” to point out that need is not the only thing for gun enthusiasts
I’m fairly certain zero livestock are raised for dog food production.
Well, since they tend to use off-cuts and organmeat for dogfood, we’d be looking at more rotting organic matter
Dogs will eat anything: film at eleven.
And yes, it was Chirps brand baking mix I once saw at the store, whoever-it-was.
Will they eat French food?
My ancestors didn’t fight their way to the top of the food chain with sharpened wood spears (before finding better ways to make spears) just for me to go back to eating bugs
Humans are terrifying.
“More seriously, humans do have a number of advantages even among Terrestrial life…”
Well, at least the ones we haven’t completely eaten yet.
Anytime I see (x)Mom as it pertains to pets, I stop reading.
Dog Mom. Cat Mom. “Look at my fur babies on my IG”. Too many red-flags that something stupid is about to follow.
Well then, so are athletes with all their huffing and puffing. Damn mouth breathers fouling the air. All sporting events are hereby cancelled… except for the ones with hot female pole vaulters.
No one took the mutant dog bait? I feel bad for the guy…that giant head is going to wreak havoc on that little body. AND the little fucker has to eat bugs.
Beat that tin drum, little wind-up monkey
“Across the country, cases of Covid-19, serious illness and loss of life are all down dramatically,” White House senior Covid-19 adviser Andy Slavitt said during a briefing on Friday. “And they can be brought down even further and the risk of a future wave in your community significantly reduced if we keep up the pace of vaccinations.”
Don’t relax. The monster is still out there; watching, waiting.
Particularly late at night, and if you’ve been drinking.
I mentioned last week that I helped in an egret rescue. It died on Friday. Apparently it was on the ground too long and got cold and its temperature never got back up.
I’m sorry. That’s rough.
That’s sad. Those are beautiful. Last summer we found a bat under out truck. The kids thought it was cute. I named it Wuhan. Some friends picked it up and took it to a rescue. It also died.
I am the night!.
*squeak*
Aw, sorry to hear that. Have been in a similar position. I understand the success rate at rescues is rarely optimal.
We should outlaw both teeth and claws.
Bummer
I haven’t seen any green herons this year. They’re actually quite hilarious to watch.
How the BBQ though?
I’m sorry. ☹️ At least it was probably more comfortable after it’s rescue, so that’s how you helped.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
Free trade is the greatest gift given to us by Robert Peel and once again we are grasping it with gusto, from Australia to Japan, Mexico and beyond.
https://twitter.com/Jacob_Rees_Mogg/status/1396793116405948417
But what about the poor english farmers
Joe Biden’s Amerikkka
A series of mass shootings over the weekend left at least 11 people dead and another 69 injured.
There were at least 12 mass shootings between Friday night and Sunday, according to CNN reporting and an analysis of data from the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), local media and police reports.
The shootings took place across eight states — Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, South Carolina, Virginia, Texas and Minnesota.
CNN defines a mass shooting as an incident with four or more people killed or wounded by gunfire — excluding the shooter.
So far this year, more than 7,500 people have died from gun violence across the US, according to the GVA. There’s also been a 23% uptick in deaths from gun violence this year, the archive said.
It’s as if there is some sort of mass psychosis affecting the nation.
Sensible church services safety would end the scourge of weekend mass shootings.
If only those people had masks
“I’m not sure what’s been more disorienting and disturbing: the rise of antisemitic violence on American streets or the fact that the people who called everyone a Nazi for four years AREN’T SAYING SHIT ABOUT IT. ”
https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy/status/1395869877747945473
“Every hour on the hour, the celebrities posted their memes and the elected officials and the influencers — it’s hard to tell the difference — called Israel an “apartheid” regime. Apartheid regimes, like regimes guilty of genocide and ethnic cleansing, are meant to be overthrown. Violently, if need be. So bloodshed is warranted, yes?
The silence-is-violence people — those who are quick to “call out” anyone deemed inadequately antiracist, experts at digging up any dusty book passage — have been remarkably quiet when it comes to Jews being dehumanized and hunted down.
Let us dispense with the fiction, once and for all, that hating the Jewish homeland, which contains the largest Jewish community on Earth, is different from hating Jews.”
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-new-furies-of-the-oldest-hatred
The sad part of this is that there is a place for reasoned debate concerning Israel and the United States, but the GOP is now going to capitalize on the burgeoning anti-Semitism on the left and offer Israel anything it wants.
Honestly, I think that’s better than the alternative.
That seems to be all of American politics these days.
“Elected Democrats, for a while, mostly held it together. They used to call the Jew hate what it was. Recall, for example, Senator Chuck Schumer, just two years ago, comparing Rep. Ilhan Omar’s remarks about Israel to Donald Trump’s comments about neo-Nazis. That was when Democrats embraced Israel’s right to defend itself, and condemned the loss of Palestinian life, but didn’t hesitate to note that it was Palestinians compounding Palestinian misery: a corrupt regime in Ramallah and an even more corrupt and violent and unimaginably inhumane regime in Gaza that was controlled by a terrorist organization backed by Iran.
But over the past few years, progressives have slowly — and then not so slowly — abandoned those positions. They have succumbed, like so many on the right, to their partisan manias. Trump was “for” Israel; they had to be “against” it. They have stumbled into the bottomless rage of the identitarian left. They have embraced the new racial-gender taxonomy, which reimagines thousands of years of Jewish history into a wokified diorama. Today, the conflict can only be seen through this flattening prism, with Israel playing the role of the white, colonial settler and the Palestinian that of the settler’s dark-skinned, indigenous victim…
Now we are confronted with the spectacle of members of Congress droning on on the House floor about how the Israeli army is somehow guilty of systemic racism and superimposing complicated ideas concocted by a French philosopher they’ve never read onto a conflict they barely comprehend.”
Seems to me that they’re counting on the American Jewish vote to be reliable in the future. I don’t really see reason to doubt that calculation.
Hating Israel’s policies doesn’t necessarily equate to hating Israel itself or Jews in general although there’s quite a bit of overlap. Criticism of Israel is not in and of itself antisemitism and it’s easy to pick out the quotes from psychopaths in order to paint with a broad brush.
Narrative begets counter-narrative. All that matters is narrative. That nuance shit can go right back up your ass (according to both varieties of narrative).
Somebody here wrote an essay about that a couple years ago, cough, cough.
That was probably before I was born.
You should have that cough looked at
Hating Israel’s policies doesn’t necessarily equate to hating Israel itself or Jews in general although there’s quite a bit of overlap. Criticism of Israel is not in and of itself antisemitism…
In and of itself, no, criticism of Israel doesn’t equate to antisemitism. But, that’s where the whole “whataboutism” context dropping is nonsense. To me, if you criticize Israel for its molehills while excusing other nations’ mountains, you can’t really claim that you’re taking any sort of principled stand. Really, though, what strikes me is that I don’t necessarily think a lot of the Israel-bashing from the left is really antisemitism. I think they perceive Israel as a Western democracy and therefore somehow illegitimate and “colonial”.
Absolutely.
We’re ignoring China’s violations of human rights which are on a much more massive scale, not to mention what the Saudis are doing with our assistance in Yemen.
As Hoffer put it “Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.”
It’s the whole “post-colonialism” bullshit. Anything that can even in some small way be tied to the history of the last few hundred years and the dominance of western Europe is bad, but any actions outside of that are looked at in the same vein as “white on white” violence.
China and Tibet? Japanese imperialism in Manchuria? No racism, never mind that each Asian ethnic group considers themselves distinct and separate races. The Holocaust? White on white violence, nothing there. Same with Arab and African slave trading. But the movement of western peoples into areas of “bipoc*” is the most damaging thing of all time.
*this as got to be the most dehumanizing term coined in a long while. Seriously, to just lump anyone who is a different skin tone together is just sad.
BIPOCLGBT+
When two clumsy acronyms join forces.
Correct. A lot of the Israel bashing from the left certainly is not anti-semitism. But it sure as hell is when it comes from Ilhan Omar.
Beating up random Jews on the streets of NYC is definitely a way of expressing disapproval of Israel’s domestic policy.
It’s like the eighties are back except the blacks have been replaced with Middle Easterners and Al Sharpton has been replaced with Linda Sarsour.
Fun times ahead, whee.
My ancestors didn’t fight their way to the top of the food chain with sharpened wood spears (before finding better ways to make spears) just for me to go back to eating bugs
*uptwinkles*
Speaking of twinkling, pet parents, and dogs, this book is funny as hell despite being decades old:
https://merrillmarkoe.com/books/what-the-dogs-have-taught-me
I was just skimming through an Atlantic article about the “aftermath” of the plague.
tl;dr- Wallowing in anguish and self-pity is the new American Way. Embrace your trauma. Feel sorry for yourself.
How else are you going to achieve victimhood status? You’ve got to sell it.
Listen, if you ain’t a victim of something you just ain’t shit.
The hicks steadfastly decline to become part of the media establishmentarian hive mind.
I’m approaching my six month anniversary of “country living”. And the question has begun to occur to me – when did urban living become higher status than country living? Only a hundred years ago, a country home was considered a requisite for an elite. And, really, I’ve found more opportunities to read, more opportunities to appreciate beauty, and more “genteel” manners in the country than in the city. Now, I’ll grant, I’m not wildly far out in the country. But, it really seems like something that came about in popular culture in the 20th century that, at most, is a half truth. I think it might be possible that widespread abandonment of the cities post-pandemic might change the culture. But, I have my doubts. I think popular culture maybe only works in the context of an urban environment and has to protect itself accordingly.
Well, one reason, I believe, is that people out in the country cook meth. Not everybody, obviously, but it does happen and it does dominate the news.
Obviously, they aren’t on the level of making crack, like their urban brethren.
Never, from my perspective.
The city was always a useless agglomeration of excess people that made nothing and lived off welfare. The country was where everything was made, where the productive people lived. Where people weren’t just murdering each other over stupid shit.
Note – I grew up in the rust belt, in a ghetto.
So that elvis song was about you?
I found it amusing when the topic of ‘a peaceful national divorce’ came up, the urban lefties squealed about how rural areas would become a ‘third world country’.
Unlike all those fabulous first world cities such as Chicago, LA, SF, Portland, Seattle, Baltimore, Detroit, Minneapolis, St. Louis, DC., NYC, etc.
Today in over-generalization, sheesh.
I think there are plenty of wastrels in both environments.
Also, it used to be if you lived out in Bumblefuck you probably weren’t up on the latest this and that and tended to be less erudite in general or at least that was the perception. Ease of communication and dissemination of information has changed a lot of that but many haven’t realized it yet.
Probably, but not necessarily. The Old Man grew up on a series of small farms in the 1920s and 1930s, lived a rural life almost his whole life. He could intelligently discuss geology, especially early-Earth geology. Also, particle physics, paleo-anthropology. All self-taught, as he was a compulsive reader. He was an accomplished carpenter, stone mason, and an artist of some renown who had his own spot in the Iowa state Capitol where one of his paintings was always on display. He could have taught a college history class on the American Revolution or the Civil War.
Granted he may have been an exception to the gen’rl rule, but he was a self-educated, old fashioned country gentleman, and there are plenty more like him out in the hinterlands.
My employer is doing a “future of work” project and it looks like the general consensus is that we’re leaning toward “hybrid” working, including long range remote work, including in states/regions where we don’t even have a presence.
The good: working from the beach is likely to become part of my life.
The bad: I may end up managing employees who are working from the beach, and keeping up with them and making sure they get shit done will be a bit more difficult.
The worse: It’s not a far jump from saying you can work from anywhere to saying we can hire people anywhere, including in places throughout the world where labor is cheap, cheap, cheap. Not bad for the bottom line, but not great for engineering professionals in the US.
For most of history, death rates in urban areas exceeded birth rates, due to disease in close quarters. They only grew due to importing people from the country-side. So cities have always been a magnet. But, in those days, the wealthy would have a home outside the city, even if they had to have city home for business purposes too. The country estate would be where you would flee to when there was an outbreak of plague or whatever.
Suburbs allowed the middle class to kind of achieve that ideal without having to own two homes. Close enough for the economic advanatage of working in the city, while still having land. And modern medicine has pretty much eliminated the disease issue (although COVID hit much harder in dense areas).
So, ummm, I don’t think I even remotely answered your question.
I think you raise an excellent point about suburbs. Their rise does seem to coincide with the dismissal of the rural. And while modern medicine does eliminate the disease issue, city living is still…dirty (and not in a good way). Suburbs, like the country, provide a haven from that. But, with the suburbs, it was still possible to live there and still consider yourself “urban” (and many of the country’s newer cities are effectively strings of suburbs).
when did urban living become higher status than country living?
There’s always been the concept of the redneck/hayseed/hillbilly. Rural, just like urban, was stratified by economic class. Plantation owner may be high class, but a share cropper sure wasnt.
Right. But, there was always a recognition of the distinction for both city and country. My impression is that popular culture has dismissed the notion of the plantation owner/country squire/country gentleman. It can only conceive of the share cropper in rural life.
Mr. Mojeaux and I started watching Breaking Bad. Yes, we were late to the party.
That level of bad decision-making was too cringe for me. I’ve made some bad decisions in my life, which were all cringe on retrospect, but I just was unable to even.
I couldn’t get past the pilot.
Did I ever link this to you, Mo? I hope we are between funerals.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30066.Being_Dead_Is_No_Excuse
I made it through episode 2.
I’ll take a look at that book. Thanks! As for funerals, you never can tell when those are going to be necessitated.
Might be more about general MW / southern etiquette than funerals or recipes. Sorry, my copy is around here somewhere…
Mo, don’t listen to the crazies on here. Breaking Bad is good tv. I know the first 2 episodes are odd but it will pay off.
X2 – BB is solidly in my personal top 5. So many great characters.
I kinda had to watch it even though I didn’t find out what it was until the final episode was broadcast.
Since I grew up in the US southwest and my dad had retired to Albuquerque a couple decades before, and at about the time I turned 50 we were having my first born as my career kinda hit a rough patch… …so there were too many fun parallels for me. It was fun to watch a series in which I can pin down the part of town they are in by the distance and angle of the mountains in the background. There’s a famous scene which was filmed just a few blocks down the street from where my step-brother was living at the time.
Bad decisions regarding drug use/sales? Yeah, a lot of people I grew up around had already taken a number of those so that was old news to me.
It’s a marvelous experiment of seeing how far one can abuse the audience before they quit.
I quit after the “happy” conclusion to S4.
If you’ve decided not to continue, this is funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDqGAUvWKkU
Good point. Tragedy or comedy work if you can at least relate on some level to the bad decisions being made. The only thing I get out of Breaking Bad’s popularity is that a wide swath of the population is only deterred from being drug kingpins by virtue of fear of consequences.
I haven’t got the personality to haggle, and that’s a pretty big part of the job description.
That was one of the continuous funny points for me (not funny as most people would think of it). I grew up with a number of guys (a couple friends, others that I knew from school) who got into dealing drugs. None of them lived to see 30.
Of course this isn’t everybody I grew up with. Not even close. Only that I’ve seen enough of it to know that nobody is lucky enough to do it for long enough to be worth it.
It ends up being a wonderful exploration of the human condition. And the final episode is worth the whole ride (IMO).
I don’t know, terminal cancer patient trying to leave something for his family? Doesn’t seem that strange, when healthy people are doing it all the time.
Usually not in that manner.
I could not relate to the decisionmaking. How do you suddenly turn on a dime from law-abiding straight man to drug kingpin? That is not relatable (to me).
The bad decisionmaking doesn’t start with that, though. The bad decisionmaking starts with not telling your wife you’ve got cancer.
Stick with it!
From wiki: On the review aggregator website Metacritic, the first season scored 73 out of 100, the second 84 out of 100, the third 89 out of 100, the fourth 96 out of 100, and the fifth 99 out of 100.
I think that’s part of why it is so great, it is one of a few shows that gets better and better and doesn’t go any longer than it should.
Anger at the perceived unfairness and injustice of the situation is how that happens. It’s the straw that breaks the camel’s back combined with the camel knowing nothing matters anymore.
Think about all the shit that has been heaped on Walter White and how he’s taken all the disappointment life could throw at him like a good guy, always doing what’s right and allowable. Then, the cancer diagnosis hits, and essentially he knows his life is over, and he’s free to do whatever he likes. He still wants to be the good guy and provide for his family, but all fetters are removed and he can do what he needs and wants to make it happen. His life may be over, but he’s a free man and doesn’t have to live the way others want him to any more.
He starts of a completely disregarded public school teacher whose wife holds in such little esteem she’ll give him a hand job without bothering to stop her reading for his birthday as a treat. It’s possibly to be less manly, but you’d have to work at it.
I have never been at the “nothing matters anymore” point.
Good! That would be a terrible point to be at.
I thought it was pretty clear from the pilot that his marriage was nominal at best.
Yes.
I won’t argue that all of the things you all are saying are true. It was just a rough go watching it.
Yes, it was literally painful to watch. And yet I”m glad I did — to the point where I gave up (end of S4). I have no desire to put myself through that again.
Kind of like The Passion of the Christ
Yes. That was rough. On top of that, that whole atonement of Christ thing has pretty much dominated my brain since I was a child. I still haven’t worked through my crisis of faith.
I too had the same feelings you have now about Breaking Bad Mojeaux. I too couldn’t make that connection to the decision making problem. That is why I quit watching it when it was running after a few episodes. But I went back and saw it after it had done its run, and after a while, pushing through the initial dysfunction, it became obvious to me that the message was that the problem is how someone could moralize doing evil to create a good, then get so caught in that whole thing that all they keep creating is more and more evil, always justifying it as a means to eventually do good. That is a damning indictment of the whole mentality that just meaning to do good, even if it means you will need to do some evil to get there, is truly the whole “road to hell is paved with good intentions” thing….
So, I’m thinking about this, thinking about what everybody is saying and I think what I’ve come to is that it made me feel oogy. It harshed my Zen. I watched all but the last season of Boardwalk Empire and loved it*, but after each binge I was in a bad mood, and on rewatch with my husband (who doesn’t like period pieces anyway), I couldn’t stomach it again. So…maybe I just don’t like shows that harsh my Zen.
*I was writing my Prohibition book when I discovered Boardwalk Empire, and was struggling mightily with getting the plot to go where I wanted it to PLUS getting the flavor of the book right. I thought I could glean some insights of the time period from the show, but all it did was make me doubt my ability to write at all. I enjoyed it, but with a touch of despair that I couldn’t write that well.
Come to think of it, if you find this entertaining, that does say something a little bread-and-circus about yourself.
I like happy endings. It’s one reason I love romance novels. I know that no matter what happens in the book, I’m going to get a happy ending.
Happy endings are not the exclusive purview of the romance genre. I generally want my stories to end on an upbeat tone, if not outright ‘happy’
Hamlet didn’t have a happy ending.
I donno, the emo finally shut up.
I don’t care for Hamlet.
So I rewrote it.
Legit LOL.
MacBeth then?
I thought it was great.
That Malice fella’s latest seems a hit of a smash. Libertarian moment? Well anarchist bu whatevs. I predict flat 0 effect on politics in the u s of a
The collapse is coming. It sure would be good for more than a handful of people to understand how to manage without a State.
The people in charge need as many people as possible to have no clue what to do without the state, because otherwise, they will not have the means to retain power, Tundra…
According to UPS the pizza oven that I thought wasn’t arriving until next Monday will be here tomorrow. I Better start making some dough.
How is your wood supply?
Pretty low, but I have three full tanks of propane.
what is the point of a pizza oven if it is not wood fired?
To get really hot?
it just classier
This, plus I was worried about having a pizza oven gap with Sloper and OMWC.
Mr. Mojeaux and I started watching Breaking Bad. Yes, we were late to the party.
That level of bad decision-making was too cringe for me.
I tried watching a few episodes. I don’t think I ever made it from beginning to end on any of them.
“Who cares what happens to these people? What else is on?”
Same. The Shield was good, though.
it’s so nice to be represented
https://mobile.twitter.com/BQUEERPRAISEGOD/status/1396506154927329283
Same. The Shield was good, though.
I watched The Shield.
I am currently watching Godfather of Harlem.
*thumbs up*
“Critical Race Theory is anti-Semitic as it is anti-white and anti-Asian. Time to stop appeasing it.”
https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1396506239044050950
That’s some illustration.
“Fliers blaming Jews for social injustice found at Chicago university
‘Ending white privilege starts with ending Jewish privilege,’ say leaflets stuck all over University of Illinois at Chicago
The fliers, found Tuesday and Wednesday in different locations, claim in bold letters that “Ending white privilege starts with ending Jewish privilege.” Using survey data, the fliers then claim that 44 percent of Jewish Americans are in the “one percent,” or the top economic percentile in the United States.
“Is the 1% Straight, White Men? Or is the 1% Jewish?” the flier asks, showing a pyramid of stick figures in which the top of the pyramid is populated almost entirely with stick figures emblazoned with large Jewish stars. The bottom of the pyramid is labeled “The 99%” and “Goyim.””
https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-privilege-key-to-social-injustice-flyers-found-at-chicago-university/
I’m sure I have a shocked face somewhere. Give me a minute.
They’re just jealous of the hair.
CRT is just another of the many and latest marxist scams fomented by the people that despise the true agent of power – competence – and want to tear that system down because they know they are fucking incompetent and will never add value.
The beauty of power is – you don’t have to add value and you can subtract all that you need from others for yourself!
Note that the real shameful thing of this new evil movement is that it is something concocted and peddled by the most inept and corrupt white people, hiding behind a made up marxist derisive cultism, and using minorities to destroy the system they know will be their doom once the people finally have had enough of their failures. The left knows that enacting what they claim they believe means massive failure, misery, and large scale destruction of wealth, but that they can’t take and hold power without that, so the creation of an external enemy to blame provides that out. It’s not accidental that just like Hitler created the evil Jew to blame for all the people’s ills, that the left is now creating the evil white male to do the same.
I think many of these people are against MLK’s judged by their character not the color of their skin because their character sucks.
Diogenes would be cancelled right quick.
when did urban living become higher status than country living?
When the “intellectual elite” decided to validate themselves by promoting it?
Has the Kung Flu invalidated that nonsense, yet?
https://twitter.com/back_ttys/status/1396702327680249856
Good people on both sides?
I like the emphasis on “OUR work”
In other words, don’t you other assholes try to horn in on OUR game. We own the victimhood franchise in this hood.
It’s a marvelous experiment of seeing how far one can abuse the audience before they quit.
see, also: Scooter Gang Hamlet (Sons of Anarchy)
There was entirely too much “WTF?!” in that show.
That was another one I couldn’t stomach.
But Katie Segal can rock the slutty old lady look like no one else.
lol
https://twitter.com/ooana/status/1396495044379557894
Heh.