No cryptids, no special features…just back to the week ahead and some links. Glibs HQ has been a down place lately. This summer has not been kind.
The week to come:
Monday – Animal will have more on the Legionnaire coming up. KK will give us a look at the RV life this evening.
Tuesday – RC Dean will give us a take on the Dobbs decision. Later on, db writes of friendship.
Wednesday – SugarFree frantically tries to keep ahead of reality. Then, CPRM has another Hat and Hair for us.
Thursday – Raven Nation takes along on a bit of travel. RJ gives us Glibflick (BigFoot or Bust) to make the evening more fun. Maybe STEVE SMITH will drop in? By drop in, mean…
Friday – The Daily Stoic lends a hand. The evening is RJ again, this time with Glib Car.
Weekend – The fine mix of beer reviews, astrology and fitness, mixed in with links, that you have come to expect!
OK, Links now.
- Entitled NY pol acts like entitled NY pol…shocking, I know.
- How is that Belt n’ Road thing going? Oh, and why is it every time I see an international mining debacle, I see “Rio Tinto” mentioned?
- ATOMIC HOBO learns the process is the punishment (or just round one).
- Why so serious?
Music Link.
The comments section is all yours.
Hochul supports Putin, film at eleven.
I say if she wants to fly in a Sikorsky, it must be this one…
I wonder what the carbon footprint is per vehicle mile flown?
About 600lbs of fuel per hour.
Spend that 16¢ wisely, folks.
The made up controversy to end dead-gendering the dead.
Somebody just let me know when the shooting starts, because this is getting really, really stupid.
There won’t be shooting – they are too stupid to handle guns.
What issue really compares with slavery? Or at a certain point does it just not matter?
There isn’t one. The rainbow-left-coalition will fracture – hell it is fracturing and they don’t understand why.
If only
https://youtu.be/L-Hfx1EWKfw
I don’t want a civil war, I just want the voices to stop.
What if we just have a small one?
I’d want to negotiate down to an American Troubles if I’m being honest.
Truth is, we’re already there.
We’re still pretty far from the level of violence associated with the Troubles. Thankfully.
*DeWalt marketers consider the untapped market*
Particularly at scale for population difference.
Maybe we can stave it off.
Best way for that to happen is the college bubble to burst.
Good point, JI.
We’d have a horrific number of bodies if it were comparable.
I will re-plug Say Nothing for those who haven’t read it.
It’s a terrific book.
I’ll put it behind Bloodlands (which I haven’t made it past the first chapter) and Nothing to Envy.
Nothing To Envy is also a great book.
If you’ve read about the Irish war for independence, or the civil war that followed, there won’t be much that can surprise you or break your heart from the Troubles. Irish history has a strong tinge of needless tragedy.
They couldn’t even tell if they supported MAGA, or what their Apple ID was!
Let me help: “Fed” or “Dead.”
You know, if you had produced some stats on the estimated accuracy of racial classification using remains, I might have been somewhat sympathetic.
If these “researchers” stop identifying remains, exactly what is their job, then?
Bloviating and pontificating
Apparently spreading the Glorious Revolution, Comrade. No other explanation for it.
(And a big part of me wishes we could just send everyone who complains about “white supremacy” (when they obviously mean “Western non-Communist Civilization”) to Liberia or something. Go figure out your OWN damned civilization and leave the rest of us alone, jerks…. Liberia would justifiably take it as an act of war, though…)
CRT destroys everything it touches. Might as well just provide one major at all colleges.
Their job(s) will be ensuring the death of the current culture, not studying dead cultures from the past.
SCIENCE!!
Seriously, how the hell are we supposed to learn anything if we can’t make accurate observations?
Can we at least keep 2 separate books, one with reality, and the other that will be used for the press release of a new dig for the masses to read?
You know they won’t want that.
History must be stopped.
There’s a little kernel of truth in there. Stop assuming that ancient remains found in the US belong to modern day tribal entities. Or that they should have any say over such objects.
Thank you.
Abandoned property belongs to the finder.
This is absolute horseshit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_Cave_mummy#Repatriation_and_DNA_Analysis
The fucking Paiute and Shoshone are the same as that mummy. There’s at least two cultural periods difference between the two. Fuck those grave robbing shitheals and their racist pseudo governments.
Lots of native Americans refuse DNA testing after early cooperation showed how they’d migrated from Asia, and that clashed with their belief that they had been created on this continent.
My favorite is how there were remains found in Maine that looked like they may have been part of the Red Ocher people, further east than previously believed and much older than later tribes, like the Penobscot.
The remains were stored at Harvard(?) for a long time, while legal wrangling went on – no modern testing, etc.
Final ruling is that the Penobscot got possession of “their” ancestors and the remains have never been seen again.
The Penobscot certainly don’t have any motivation to destroy any such evidence that they have always and forever been native to that part of Maine…
See that’s the bullshit that I can’t tolerate – the anti-science of supporting primitive beliefs, and most of all from the IFLS crowd (with it’s idiot deference to tribal spirituality).
Ah, here’s what I was looking for:
https://quillette.com/2021/03/29/the-campaign-to-thwart-paleogenetic-research-into-north-americas-indigenous-peoples/
It’s worse than I remember – they have they data, they just won’t release it ’cause they don’t want to be badthinkers.
The only plus is that I was wrong – the skeletons are still at Harvard. For now.
Apologies for the raised blood-pressure.
That’s fucked.
The native claims are horseshit. But without it, the their entitlement to everything would be undermined.
How about modern forensics based on skeletal remains? Will the examiner no longer be allowed to say “Asian female in her 20s” when they find a body? Facts DO help in the investigation, ya know.
“Carbon based lifeform has stopped sinking CO2 and has become a climate villain. No data available on pronouns or pre-mortem identities. Be advised.”
They’re for “justice” in every sense but the literal one.
Be on the look-out for a person of interest.
How do they know they identified as humans?
“biological gender”
OFFS!!!
Since becoming the first female governor in state history — following the resignation of Cuomo amid a litany of scandals — Hochul has vowed to make state government more transparent and accountable.
Transparently telling the proles “FYTW.”
Accountable to no one except themselves.
To be fair, that’s what their biggest supporters want.
Great stuff this week! I’ll pop some corn and open a box of Sno Caps.
It’s too bad we can’t see NZZ’s caricature and judge for ourselves. (That’s not a criticism our our resident pun-hater.)
*sigh* …
Captain Ukraine is probably already in the works at Disney/Marvel.
The Clown World one is just okay — not worth getting upset about, if a little cheesy of the Swiss.
“Captain Ukraine is probably already in the works at Disney/Marvel.”
I would not bet against that.
They need revisions to make Captain Ukraine acceptable to the intersectional mafia.
State Farm has this covered
Needs moar t shirt.
They need one more division?
That’s just cheesy.
*squints suspiciously*
If a Mexican newspaper printed a caricature of of our fearless leader President Brandon, it would be our sovereign right to drop a nuke on them.
Are you trying to create an avocado shortage?
PLINNKER HAS AN AVACADO HOARD!!!!
It’s ok. He said advocado, not advocaat shortage.
Now, an abogado shortage, I could behind.
Whew….needz muh advokaat. But not too often.
But, you’re an Avocado, no?
My hoards are my own business and I refuse disclose the vast number of avocados I may or may not have.
I thought the US reserved the right to nuke any part of the Americas for any reason.
I bet Q was hoping for Bigfoot AND Busts.
The one thing that cheers me up about the ole Belt n’ Road — Africa could probably *still* show China a thing or two about corruption. And China doesn’t have the military projection to do much about it (yet, anyway) — so at some point, one has to suspect there may be some “nationalizing” of assets if they push this too far or try to make their puppets dance to a tune that’s too unpopular. Of course… arrogance — no one has *ever* associated that with Chinese bureaucrats or anything… so no chance that might happen.
I have great contempt for most of Congress. I doubt most of the US would feel it was worth a conviction. Since I’m sure they’ll use DC courts that have been hostile to the J6 crowd, I expect the death penalty for lese majeste of Pelosi or somesuch legal twisting will ensue. (What looks like a bouncing mammal with a pouch in a courtroom?)
“Je suis NZZ” just doesn’t sound as good…
Afternoon, Swiss and all you happy reprobates.
I, for one, look forward to seeing the PRC mired down in the swamp of african colonization. “Mr. Wu, he dead.”
Next we should convince them to try Afghanistan.
They have been eyeing Afghanistan for a while…being that they have a border (however small) and all.
Comrades, comrades, we got this. Because our civilization is superior to that of the Yankees and the Soviets, and the English we will surely be able to civilize them. Also, we, as Asians, have advantages of ethnic affinity which the Westerners don’t. Why, our
empirenation contains many Muslims who are well-treated and fully integrated into our society.I think it’s more a case of “Because we’re willing to exterminate the locals and replace them with Han, we will succeed by doing what they were unwilling to do”
Doesn’t Afghanistan have a crapton of rare earth minerals?
Yes.
https://www.livescience.com/47682-rare-earth-minerals-found-under-afghanistan.html
And China also has major deposits. So that would allow them to control the market.
Supposedly. But I had been hearing that since before I got there, 18 years ago.
There must be a pony in there somewhere!
So does California… But you ‘d never know.
Never seen Empire of Dust?
The Chinese guy trying to get Africans to work like Chinese is hilarious. At 11:50 he became a meme – it’s all so tiresome”.
That looks great. I snorted at the “that guy is Kenyan, not Congolese”.
Not streaming, that I see. I may have to ‘acquire’ it.
https://youtu.be/fkqGiPB2D8M
Look at Swiss dropping the Clutch today!!!
What, you think he’s gearing up for an exciting transmission?
*narrows gaze*
That song makes me want to do tequila shooters and look for a fist fight…
Agreed. Their fans are ridiculously loyal and continue to gain young’uns.
I would guess that Putin would be more upset by this NZZ article — not a caricature.
“have likely increased”
I have no proof, but I think there are more spies! Why are there more spies!
Spying…just like our “diplomats” and everyone else’s….
Visiting their children? 😉
Moving as much US dollars in cash to the US as one is comfortable with.
Atomic Hobo is pretty sharp. I hope he gets a few punches in before they fuck him.
Atomic Punk
Atomic Dog
Just Atomic
Speaking of classy…
Factory hard chromed M-11.
Pimp worthy
Match with a pearl-handled pistol.
Or if from a cheap New Orleans whorehouse.
*only if
If you’re going to hard chrome the bore, you might as well toss the whole thing in there.
Someday, I’ll hard chrome my CZs.
Hard chrome on a CZ makes you look cool in an ’80s action hero way.
Hard chrome on an M-11 makes you look lame in an ’80s action villain way.
I have a Browning P-35 with a hard chromed frame and black coated slide. Probably my best looking handgun.
Classy like Winston’s Mom’s pimp…
Is there a gold plated on to match your Desert Eagle?
Does an evil to your muthafucking dome
/db’s mondegrine for that song
“Oh, and why is it every time I see an international mining debacle, I see “Rio Tinto” mentioned?”
Because they and BHP are the two biggest mining concerns in the world. I’m surprised that the Chinese haven’t tried to buy either before. Both are Victorian Era corporations founded by the British empire.
I’ve been fortunate. I’ve never had to sell anything that I didn’t truly believe was a good thing for my customers.
Imagine being the person at Pew Research who did this.
*cackles*
“Give me a poll that makes Harris look good, or you’re fired!”
“I didn’t get an ‘harumph’ from that man.”
RC Dean will give us a take on the Dobbs decision
That’s the kind of lukewarm promo I like to see.
To be fair, it is kinda dull.
Taaaake on Dobbsss (Take on Dobbs!)
Way to hype it up.
I think Swiss likes to play the dry and understated wit
Nice avatar, been meaning to say for a while. Were you able to DIY?
Yep, I just did this one as a completely new image to test. I like it too, although I’ll probably switch back to my old one at some point if it works.
Thanks, btw
You know who else was kind of dull…
Well, me for one.
Me too – the older I get, the more boring I get 🙁
Ahhhh Derbs!!!
Nice call-back.
I, for one, am looking forward to it.
Oh, look at that.
Who had “riots in Germany” for the next Latest Thing?
Ugh, the comments…
So many bloodthirsty people who want a broader war.
“db writes of friendship”
I didn’t know the “b” was for “brony”.
Regarding the “trial” for Steve Bannon on the contempt of Congress charges (yeah, I know we all have contempt FOR congress but this is different), I recall that Eric Holder was also voted to be in contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate on the Fast and Furious investigation.
It was even a bipartisan ruling. But nothing ever happened to Holder as a result. No fine, no trial.
What gives?
Equitable application of the law
Snicker.
Yup, totally consistent and in no way politically motivated.
Seems legit to me.
I had Panama.
Whoah…
I’ve encouraged that so many people are standing up to their corrupt and useless governments, and demanding that those governments work for the interest of the people they supposedly represent.
But I’m worried about what will take the place of those corrupt and useless governments.
Don’t worry. History already tells us the oppressed will become the oppressors.
Better lock it down…
A man, a plan, a canal — St. Lawrence Seaway!
I wonder how the ocean freight clusterfuck is affecting revenues down there.
Winston’s Mom sees no negative effect on revenues down there.
Well EF went to court today – as a potential juror.
Many, many hours later she was recognized by the defense attorney – they went to law school together – and that was the end of that.
Dang… was hoping she’d get to give us a good inside-the-jury-box story. I only ever got seated for one and would happily do it again given an opportunity.
(Snarkier response — can’t have anyone who knows anything about the process anywhere near a jury! The horrors!)
I’ve never been on a jury which is probably best since I would likely get myself in trouble.
Me too. I have duty in August. I look like a crazy old white guy and have not been picked sinceI lived in California in the late 80s.
I have been on two juries, and I think as a foreman once. Can’t remember, which is kinda sad.
One time my brother was dismissed because he and the judge played beer league hockey together.
“Hey Danny!”
“Hey Bob!”
…
“Juror dismissed!”
Because she graduated ahead of him, right?
“What do you call the C students from law school?”
“Your Honor”
I so wanted to be in the jury box ! Denied.
I had one of those. Criminal trial of a cartel operative – for welfare fraud and pot distribution. They seated 14. I was juror number, I think, 17.
I was once, years ago. Stupid me volunteered for foreman.
I think it was about that time I realized how easily most people are led, particularly in higher pressure situations. They want somebody else to take the reins.
On a more humorous note – my 80yo parents stopped by today to check out the deck construction project happening in my back yard.
*dad walks in* and says: “what’s that smell? Litter box needs to be changed
*LH laughs to himself* as he thinks of the water bong and pipe, and jars of weed in the kitchen drawer. “I have no idea.”
Masks will be back in Germany this fall… not that they were completely gone (public transport).
FDP is Germany’s small-government, free-market party.
So that’s where Jo Jorgensen & co. went.
LOL
“Nein.”
Lol. Good luck. First cold snap and they will be burning masks and government buildings for heat.
Wearing a mask for heat might be their best use. I like wearing a gaiter now when I walk the dog and it is under 30.
They’ll come in handy when the government turns on the facial recognition at the protests.
For my next pair of glasses I’m getting a set of frames from Curry & Paxton – and as worn by Michael Caine in the 1965 movie “The Ipcress File”
https://images1.fanpop.com/images/photos/2600000/The-Ipcress-File-michael-caine-2629360-699-297.jpg
Of course I’ll look like an dork compared to Sir Caine.
YES! Love those!
(I always appreciate when men go for frames other than “serial killer double bridge metal”)
I’m going with classic Ray-Bans for my next pair. Already have the frames, seeing the optometrist next week.
These, in matte black.
Mine are similarly shaped, albeit thinner and lighter metal (Tom Davies).
Long ago I decided I’m ok spending a lot on something I wear every day for hours at a time and last for at least two years.
Got the same, tortoise shell originals, going to optometrist after I pass the asteroid-sized kidney stone I’ve been battling since last weekend.
Ugh.
Good luck. That’s fucking brutal.
About 15 years ago my dad had a 27-mm stone in his bladder.
Tundra, thanks! Ted_S’, holy smokes! My first, 1996, had to be broken up with me in an ultrasound tank, only 6mm but completely blocked the ureter. There was morphine required. This hurt as bad, but my Overton window has shifted since then. It finally got to my bladder last night.
I have been rockin’ horn-rimmed for the last 10 years or so, so, got that going for me. Which is nice.
My jury story.
I figured no chance I would ever end up on a jury for anything of value. They bring about 60 or 80 of us into room, start the voir dire. Questions aren’t what I was expecting…I look around room and realize, “Oh fuck, I am on this jury.”
It was the retrial of this case: https://law.justia.com/cases/kentucky/court-of-appeals/2013/2011-ca-001851-mr.html
We found guilty on the misdemeanor counts of assault and violating a restraining order. We found not guilty on the felony count of intimidating a witness. I was jury foreman. We took about 20 minutes.
My jury story: 20-something years ago I show up at the (then new) courthouse. Outside I hear this huge wooshing noise, thinking it was a large water fountain.
Sit down – read for 30 minutes or so – and then everyone is evacuated from the building. It turns out the wooshing noise I heard was the natural gas pipe!
We’re two blocks away, hanging around, and the judge eventually saunters over and dismisses us all with “time served”.
My wife got a jury summons forwarded to us a week after we left Los Angeles in June 1994. Calls them up and explains we moved and thinks nothing more of it – a couple days later jury selection for the OJ trial starts.
I’m not a historical fiction kind of guy so it was unexpected that I’ve been enjoying the 1982 “North & South” novel by John Jakes.
It does capture – rather well – some of the pre-Civil War politics and challenges between the two regions. And the cruelty of slavery. It also meshes perfectly with the current Hardcore History podcast about slavery.
The TV show – as usual – is a pale shadow of the book.
I grew up on the TV show. Seen the series at least 20x. Probably more.
Years later I tried reading the book, but when the cotton plantation from the movie was a rice plantation I was out.
Oh, and why is it every time I see an international mining debacle, I see “Rio Tinto” mentioned?
This time, at least, its not some environmental catastrophe. Its graft (or, the lack thereof).
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/SwZdBtYwSe2VotJ4k5udAw.dYzIjTBUUxrmDq7TiJt2vu
Yes, my pretties…grow!
Fauci says he’s going to retire no later than January 2025, but it’s not due to outside pressure. Sounds like his fellow bureaucrats actually are maneuvering to throw him under the bus.
I can’t stand the fact this fucker enjoyed the long cushy lucrative life he has. He deserves nothing less than a slow and painful death. I would love a storybook ending where his idiotic and criminal worshipers have his pain and suffering off loaded onto them to to keep his evil selfish carcass alive. Then in end, they abandon him. He deserves nothing less than the boats.
And his monthly pension is probably going to be higher than many of us earn in six months.
Speaking of RV life – I’m eating pasta out of my large Pyrex measuring cup because I neglected to get pasta bowls.
These things happen.
It won’t go on a plate?
No pasta on plates EVERRRRR!!!
/Joan Crawford
Range Life.
Mmm… bananas.
Well, I’m not sure if I should be angry, upset, sad, or some combination of the three.
There was a girl in my church’s youth group, a couple of years behind me. I graduated high school, moved away to Big College Town, and hardly ever saw her again. She graduated a few years later, went to the local juco, and settled down into a nice, boring, middle-class suburban life. Keeping up with each other on Derpbook has been our only interaction in the last several years.
Unfortunately, her older child seems to have descended into schizophrenia, and either no one noticed or it was ignored, with tragic results.
Goddamn shame, is what it is.
That is awful, Shpip.
A tragedy all around.
Jesus. That’s horrible.
My condolences.
Awful.
Sorry, Shpip.
Ugh
My sympathies, Shpip. One member of my small “squad” from high school – he still lived nearby, but we’d mostly lost touch since our last HS reunion – was stabbed to death with a sword by one of his housemates after my friend confronted him about his “anger management issues.” I shudder to think of it – I think being stabbed repeatedly must be one of the worst possible ways to die.
There was a doctor who had a young (about 20 yo, when schizophrenia usually first manifests in men) neighbor kid housesit while the doc went on vacation.
Doc came back and found the kid sitting in the house on the bottom steps of a staircase, staring wide-eyed at nothing. The doc approached and tried to see what was wrong, and the young man repeatedly stabbed him. The doc had an “out-of-body” experience and was declared dead (his wife ran and called 911) before being revived.
He later would meet with grieving families of stabbing victims and tell them that after the initial shock he was spared pain and fear as the stabbing continued, feeling as if he were being surrounded by a peaceful presence separating him from the horror going on. He stopped short of calling it an angel, but the point being, he comforted the families of the victims based on his own experience.
Hopefully it was the same for your friend.
Yikes! Sorry.
Man, that is horrible!
Absolutely terrible.
That is truly tragic.
I see there’s a law that allows him to be detained against his will for mental health treatment. Unfortunately it took a death to show that he is in dire need of such treatment.
I know a lonely woman who married a much younger man who was schizophrenic. He was under treatment and taking meds. After a few years, she divorced him because despite the meds and therapy, there were flashes of cray-cray that scared her. Like “oh shit, he’s going to snap and kill me” scared.
Damn. So sorry.
“The effectiveness of masks for individuals indoors is undisputed,”
It’s right here on this stone tablet.
So happy to see LH & EF back in the fold.
I love our little Hotel California
Well, I enjoy confirmation bias as much as the next guy, but I was really hoping the people involved in the rape of that 10 year old weren’t all complete shits. As I suspected.
TW: Twitter.
They are.
The accused rapist was living with the mother (and his victim). He was, of course, banging the mother (also). And, she’s pregnant. Allegedly.
Not yet confirmed: whether she is also an illegal.
As I wondered, Ohio not only allows abortions to save the life of the fetus-bearing person, they also allow it to avoid serious bodily harm. Whatever argument you might make about whether this abortion qualified to save the life of the mother, there is no argument that a 10 year old would suffer serious bodily harm bringing a child to term and delivering it. The whole thing was a setup. Oh, and there is no bar on abortions after six weeks, so the whole “we had to take her to Indiana because she was one day past what Ohio would allow” is complete horseshit.
Also, I have already slapped down a couple of doctors in my hospital for having hysterical overreactions to Dobbs and saying they weren’t sure they could do things to save the mother’s life. Allah be merciful, but I am sick of this shit. I don’t like our current abortion laws in AZ, I don’t like what our AG is trying to do with them (he’s going all hardcore strict enforcement uber alles), and I don’t like people who whipsaw between “abortion is a fundamental right that is necessary to save lives” and “I won’t take even the most minuscule risk for that fundamental right”. You want the moral high ground? Earn the moral high ground.
Technically he is a confessed rapist, not merely an accused one.
“The film is already being censored by Big Tech, including Facebook, Google and TikTok. Jones was the first test case of Big Tech uniting to immediately “de-person” someone from the internet. Many warned how quickly that would grow. More here on the film:
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1549078682903478278
https://unherd.com/thepost/facebook-google-censor-alex-jones-documentary/
Good thread from GG
there is no argument that a 10 year old would suffer serious bodily harm bringing a child to term and delivering it.
I find it hard to believe her body would not reject it and spontaneously abort.
But- what do I know?
A high school classmate got pregnant at 14 and decided to complete the pregnancy. She had a lot of trouble and a lot of pain with her pelvic bones because she was kinda small and wasn’t done growing. The pregnancy accelerated the growth and spread of the pelvis to accommodate the growing child and the anticipated birth. She had a C-section eventually.
I recall being impressed that the body knew it had to step up its game to be able to get them both through the process.
But a 10 year old? That sounds like it would have been a very very rough pregnancy.
Well given the sketchy backstory on everyone else involved, perhaps her age has not been correctly ascertained.
Amazed they didn’t want to keep their chance at an anchor baby.
Or maybe the “10” year old was already an anchor baby.
Oy…
My fifteen year old has only one other student in her tenth grade literature class. That other kid is the adopted black child of white parents who wears it like a victim trophy, publicly and loudly hating on her parents while enjoying the privileges they afford her.
The complication is that the literature teacher is in her early thirties and obviously on the social justice train. Ralph Ellison is first up this year and Frederick Douglass’s pre-Civil War writings are prominent but none of his post-Civil War stuff that is more reconciliatory. I made a point of it to the teacher during the orientation that I thought it was an unbalanced presentation of Douglass.
I do not have confidence that it is going to be a pleasant semester for my daughter.
They are really going to do a class of two?
Biology class only has one, her. And a male teacher, which is a mild concern as well.
Parent-teacher conference between Scruffy and biology teacher.
Scruffy: you will present to my daughter as the gayest gay man that was ever gay.
Bio teach: why would I do that?
Scruffy: because if you don’t, I’ll put something so far up your ass you will be.
😂
LOL!
Hmmmm….
Only two students in a class?
Also that. 2 kids?
So far. There may be one or two more depending on the international students, but I kind of doubt it because it’s ESL for them.
Was the teacher surprised you knew anything about Fredrick Douglass? Most teachers assume parents are cro magnon morons.
It was a parting comment so I’m not sure.
However, the US Government teacher was a little surprised when he started saying “The People’s History…” and I interrupted with “Zinn? I hope there’s some counterbalancing views because he’s a one trick historian.”
It must be a chore to de-program your kid after school every day.
Zinn was my AP US History textbook. I didn’t do any work and skipped class a lot in hs, so flunked. Regular US History had a more mainstream text. (Did the same with that and flunked too. I was an idiot then. Still am, but I was younger).
The fact that Zinn is widely used as a textbook is an indictment of the educational system. The lies of omission are blatant.
Men can have babies. Vyvian from the Young Ones proved that in the 1980s.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iX7Yt0D4NEg
Okay Loretta
Heh. Not a Young Ones fan?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgp9MPLEAqA
Well played.
And they were joking at that time, but now…
I prefer the Only Ones.
I prefer the other ones.
Excellent! I haven’t heard that gem in more than 30 years!
Both good, had completely forgotten about Ted S’s song though.
From the BBC comedy, The Goodies. An episode wherein our heroes are trapped underground for the rest of their lives:
Tim: (pleading, while the Goodies are trapped) “I want a son. I must have a son. Graeme, you’re a doctor!”
Graeme: (looking stunned) “Sorry, it can’t be done!”
Tim: “But a man isn’t a man unless he exercises his right to fatherhood!”
Bill: (chuckling) “You can exercise it all you like, but you won’t find much use for it here!”
Your daily Sanford & son:
https://youtu.be/Mk1EJLK0wxI
I actually remember that episode!
No one delivered lines like him. Genius.
For Gustave Lytton.
https://youtu.be/zhGnuWwpNxI
Old, but I never saw it. It’s perfect Japanglish.
In the pre COVID days, my teacher showed it to the class. But I’d already seen it because of Namewee. The guy has pissed off large swathes of Asia. Another from him, but not Japanese
https://youtu.be/hoXiIyTvjTI
Yeah, I watched some of his other videos after this. He didn’t pull any punches.
I’m planting my flag, so to speak. I just erected my gantry crane in the “shop” It’s kind of a tight fit, bu it’s up. Scaffolding, come-along, ratchet straps….
Not a lot of room for lateral travel in the metal arch building. I’m definitely going to have to do something about ventilation, soon. It’s quite the solar oven.
I deserve this beer.
There’s so much to unpack here…
I counted, what, 7, maybe 8 euphemisms?
There’s so much to unpack here…
Take it slowly. Stop and rest, if you need to.
In other nobody-cares-but-me news, my new burr coffee grinder arrived today. Tomorrow I’ll buy some Colombian whole bean coffee and take it for a test drive.