A lite romp through Moscow, with parlor magicians, keystone cops, and a cat as big as a pig that swills vodka. Or, a tale of desperation, chronicling black magic, the disappeared, the beheaded, and a cat as big as a pig waving a Mauser pistol around. A novel within a novel tells of the author’s struggles to write a novel accepted by official society. And contained within is a novel about the doubt of Pilate and the death of Yeshua.
Telling three interlocking stories; of the Devil coming to Moscow, of the crucifixion of Christ, and the love story of The Master and Margarita, this is one of the greatest pieces of 20th-century literature, being an allegory for the reign of Stalin and his purges, and of hope during that period of crushing oppression. It is, at heart, a novel of dissidence.
As these three stories interlock, Satan comes to Moscow and wreaks havoc, Margarita pines for her lover and is all too willing to make a deal with Satan to be reunited, and the Master’s great novel of Pilate is the cause of his being imprisoned, we come to the real heart of the matter, that Soviet Russia has no sense of godliness or its inverse, evil. And thus Satan is able to cause so much damage, Stalin is able to cause so much damage. For this is what the novel is really about. Written during the height of Stalin’s purges; the midnight knock of the NKVD, the Gulag archipelago, the mass unmarked graves.
Bulgakov, a former doctor reduced to writing for the theater, one of the lowest literary jobs, due to his past, wrote the novel in secret, and at one point burned his notes. Indeed, it wasn’t published until the sixties, and even then, in an expurgated form, chopped up by the state decades after his death. The allegories were still too strong, the wounds still too deep. Russia, even during the Soviet era, is a land of novels, its people well read and used to tales that are curated to survive officialdom. They are used to allegory and satire, and when it was finally published in the west many of these traits were lost on the readers there.
No one knows how many versions there are, nor is there an official version. But all of them, well translated or bad, contain in them the marks of a sad genius, who only really gave us this one memorable work. A novel about resilience in the face of your utmost nightmare, on both the immediate level via The Master and on the ultimate level, that of The Christ. It’s funny. It’s not so funny.
So, what are you reading?
quick OT for the record:
SEC by seven
Georgia will destroy TCU. The real title game was last week.
This is a boring game so far.
it was rigged!!!!
rigged! Rigged!1!!11!
I’m re-reading Michener’s Hawaii at the moment, whilst also cranking away on another new Glibs series and trying to get some progress on Nova Roma III.
Thank G** we aren’t zooming tonight!
“trying to get some progress”
I hope your muse smiles upon you, and winks, etc.
I am writing like a beast. Totally hiding a Tonio reference in somewhere.
Animal,
I mentioned Alaska by Michener before. Curious what you think. Currently re-reading his The Source.
Also enjoying a series of books by some guy named Gentry. I enjoyed one so much that I gave it to a friend for his birthday.
I’m intrigued. I’ll have to check my “local library.”
Been a bit too busy to read much lately, but I was about halfway through Save the Last Bullet for Yourself: A Soldier of Fortune in the Balkans and Somalia by Rob Krott when I left off.
Very much enjoyed The Master and Margarita. It’s past time I revisited it.
So, what are you reading?
“The Book of Lost Tales Part Two” – J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by his son.
*Alerts Captain Beatty!*
Someone here turned me on to The Master and Margarita. It was pretty bizarre and amazing.
Had to set aside The White Pill and Storm of Steel for something less intense. Finished The Name of The Wind and am just about done with The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. Not my normal thing, but very good books. Reminds me of UCS’s work.
I’m genuinely sorry, Tundra. Both of Patrick Rothfuss’ novels were wonderful, but I don’t think we’re ever going to get a third.
I read these two years ago and I’m shocked at how little I remember.
Yup, they’re masterpieces imo.
Almost better to leave it unfinished at this point, I don’t think it will come out right.
Meh. To me they read like self-insert fanfic.
I am reading Aristillus: Powers of the Earth by Travis Effing Corcoran, libertarian (sorta), badass, goat farmer, and NH state legislator.
Highly recommend. It’s like The Moon is a Harsh Mistress meets Atlas Shrugged.
Like goat farmer, or like GOAT farmer?
Like actual genus Capra (from the same root as Capricorn and Capricious) goats.
TIL
Same
Capra
Copa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDR247fmhnc&ab_channel=BertrandVDM
I learned that from a video game.
Video game?
If that cost waaaay closer to $0 than $10, I’d get it.
3 bucks on CDKeys. Well worth it.
https://www.viz.com/shonenjump/chapters/akane-banashi?locale=en
I’ve always enjoyed Rakugo and it’s a fun way to learn more about it..
Not really reading anything at the moment. There are some series I’m accumulating, but I’ve learned my lesson about reading installments as they come out. I’ve got more time now (or will soon), so I should get something going.
I’m expecting arrests any day now. I’ve been told by reliable sources this is treason.
Right?
a. how does CBS know if it is “unknown what the classified documents are about”?
2. why single out “nuclear secrets”?
2. So that can claim it’s different vs Trump
To differentiate Biden from Drumpf, of course. Everybody knows Drumpf stole nukular sekrets to sell to Putin, so the feebs sniffing Melania’s underwear at Mar-a-Lago was totally justified!
Also, whose nuclear secrets? Ours, or those of random shithole countries (*cough* Pakistan, North Korea *cough*) which have managed to assemble primitive fission weapons such as we used on the Japanese like eighty years ago?
If they don’t send the doorkickers, then its yet another example of our weaponized legal/law enforcement system
Also, if the contents are unknown, then how do they know there are no nuclear secrets?
If they say no cc m nuclear secrets at this point I have to assume there are some. Also it’s probably a ton of docs. Anyone find it ‘interesting’ this happened before the election, but only being reported now?
Weird coincidence that it didn’t leak any sooner, like when it happened.
This is the problem when the media and clowns in power go after Trump over things that are completely normal behavior. Suddenly, people realize that you did the same shit and that causes problems.
Both Clintons already demonstrated that Dems can do whatever they want with classified docs.
Travel books and learning German books because I’m going Germany this spring!
*insert excited scream gif
*celebratory goosesteps and Bellamy salutes*
sehr gut
Na so was!
You know who else went to Germany?
Zhukov?
David Hasselhoff?
Lenin?
Christopher Isherwood?
Jesse Owens?
Tiberius?
Sally Bowles?
If you get near Reichenbach Odenwald say hi to my cousin Helmut, He’ll have a fridge full of hefeweizen.
/adds Helmut to “Must Visit” list
Does Helmut get a Bole haircut?
Better not be when you’re supposed to be here!
I know….I did think of that.
It’s a timing thing…my step-daughter is there for work so I’d have a free place to stay and a semi-local tour guide.
Say no more, this is the internet. Don’t leave any bread crumbs.
Well yeah, if anything I just said was even true!
Ah, got it – all just code for “whoring in Thailand”
Can’t help myself
I love that insane song.
“Let’s make a musical about chess!” *does huge rail of coke*
The late 70s, man.
Yeah, total classic.
Make sure you get Eloquently Wasted before you try autoerotic asphyxiation.
Where in Germany?
I’ve heard that life isn’t easy.
Around Koln. If all goes as hoped, I will be on this cruise.
Looks Metal AF [I don’t read Germain]
This is the headliner
Nice!
I know Eisbrecher and Die Krupps.
Maybe it was you who pointed out Eisbrecher.
Köln is *magnificent*. One of my favorite towns there.
I’ve heard of Die Krupps, don’t think I’ve heard much from them. And yes, I’ve been been pushing Eisbrecher for a while. 🧐
The river cruise is 12 hours. 2/3 sightseeing, 1/3 party. It looks like such a fun day.
Köln looks sehr schone. The cathedral alone is enough to get me there. I can’t wait to experience as much as I can of the area.
I know it’s been years, but if you want to talk offline, I’m all ears about your insights of Germany.
“ I’m all ears about your insights of Germany”
Don’t believe them when they want to show you some ‘sexy’ videos
Slumbrew, that is some shitty advice.
Indeed.
I’ve been to Köln twice.
The Cathedral is great. The Roman-German Museum next door is interesting.
Watch out for pickpockets.
🙂
Salty Snowden:
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1612458021312937985
Preach!
Based Snowden. It’s been hilarious watching the people who snickered about Romney calling out Russia as a geopolitical foe in 2012 and spent the previous 50 years running cover for actual Russian communists by screeching “McCarthyism!” regardless of the facts or evidence suddenly turn into HUAC nutriders.
That’s just crazy-talk.
If this happens it will be cool.
Imma start my own spy agency.
Using a whiskey distillery as a front?
Just give it 3 letters and take some kind of government money and you don’t need a front.
I like you. I’ll spy on you last.
Zwak was reading a book
A bunch of my half-finished stories to see if any can be turned into something Glibs-worthy.
If any of them have anything to do with vampires, start there.
Thanks for recognizing that we have values here. We are not Femifisting, or Daily Femsplaining, after all.
Tonio,
To my knowledge you never published my “towing the bike through the blizzard story.” It’s not my best but if you are needing content, have at it.
Aye, there seemed to be some confusion when you mentioned it last(?) week.
I’d like to read it.
I could have sworn that we did. Let me get back to you tomorrow about that.
Rereading Out of the Silent Planet.
The book in question sounds super interesting. Might check it out. I am in the middle of several audiobooks:
1. People Like Us (about Margaret Thatcher)
2. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
3. Free Women, Free Men by Camille Paglia
Just finished Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino and Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters.
I still have my Russian copy I had to read at DLI. For some reason the Russian instructor thought the tram severing the guy’s head was hilarious. “He didn’t use his head in life, now it’s gone.”
Well, at least one person in Monterey has a sense of humor.
I’m reading “Range, why generalists triumph in a specialized world” by David Epstein.
I’m just at the intro and first chapter. Pretty good so far. I’m basically reading it to justify my own career and approach to life.
I learn a skill or gain knowledge and become good enough before moving on to the next thing.
-Robert A. Heinlein
That was one of my earliest inspirations. Along with just liking new things and experiences.
When we get put in the camps, I want the generalists, the jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none, the barnyard engineers, and the MacGyvers in my barracks. We going Hogan’s Heroes style!
Jackoff-of-all-trades reporting for duty!
Master of none, present!
I would say there are 4 I can’t do. I suspect program a computer doesn’t belong on that list any more. I live in the desert, so conning a ship is unlikely to come up. I could hack a hog into bloody chunks, but I wouldn’t say I could competently butcher one. I could write a sonnet, if I could be arsed.
It’s pretty hard to practice dying gallantly as you only get one shot at it.
I’m kind of the same way, and I wish I’d specialized. Should have listened to my dad and become an accountant.
If I had listened to my dad I would be a college professor, waiting to blow my brains out.
Tell me more…
Spoiler alert: Epstein didn’t kill himself.
Write up a book review.
Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you dabble or delay, you’ll never catch up to the people who got a head start. But a closer look at research on the world’s top performers, from professional athletes to Nobel laureates, shows that early specialization is the exception, not the rule.
David Epstein examined the world’s most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors, forecasters and scientists. He discovered that in most fields—especially those that are complex and unpredictable—generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel. Generalists often find their path late, and they juggle many interests rather than focusing on one. They’re also more creative, more agile, and able to make connections their more specialized peers can’t see
I’ll see what can be done to review it. I need to read it first.
They are primed to jump in at the appropriate time for success.
Which is what luck really is. Placing yourself in the way of things and being set up to take advantage of them when the time comes.
Finding it hard to discount the endless athlete or super-genius “human interest” stories where they start playing or geniusing at like 3 years old.
Not to discount “generalism” – I find that more appealing. Just not convinced.
I’m intrigued again. Back to my “local library.”
Late Bloomers by Rich Karlgaard makes kind of the same case.
Yup, this is something I need to read.
Virtues must be signaled.
WASHINGTON—The new Republican-controlled House is poised to vote as soon as Monday to repeal tens of billions of dollars in Internal Revenue Service funding, taking up a bill that is unlikely to become law but that pre-views coming battles with Democrats over the tax agency’s expansion.
I just finished The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq. It’s quite a dichotomy being downright pornographic while being one of the most brutal takedowns of the Sexual Revolution I’ve ever seen. Houellebecq seems like the literary equivalent of Mencius Moldbug but, if it’s even possible, more extreme. Basically he’s a reactionary of such magnitude that the only way back to happiness and meaning for humanity is to fundamentally change. I once wrote on these very pages that the advent of the Pill was the most Earth-shattering development in human history and there is no putting the toothpaste back in the tube. Houellebecq agrees but his way of putting the toothpaste back in the tube is for humanity to alter itself in a drastic way that I won’t discuss for the sake of spoilers.
Fascinating writer; I will definitely read more of his stuff.
SUBMISSION has been on my list for a while, and I absolutely agree with you on The Elementary Particles. He is quite the Catholic, apparently, and it plays into his works.
Intriguing, and agree about the Pill.
Thought police. Surprised. Confused. What? Try harder.
I haven’t seen that kitty in a while!
Reminds me of my Betty RIP.
I some malted Fizzy drinks before I started in on the Hamms, feeling pretty alright alright alright.
I’m reading this….
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/09/irs-sent-12-million-refunds-for-2020-unemployment-tax-break.html
“Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.” It’s been hard to concentrate so it is taking forever to get through. Also reading “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator “ with my daughter, the lesser known sequel to “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”
I’m reading my post from last night where I ask people to send it their “what are we reading” reports for an end of the month post, so thanks for stepping all over that, Zwak.
I kid, I kid…it’s not yout fault. I blame Tonio and Swiss for poor scheduling.
Also there’s still plenty of month left.
We get our collective asses in gear, we can tell you about the next books we start reading.
LOL there it is.
I did feel a bit bad for you. But I got over it.
I felt so bad for him I started drinking before this even posted. +5 Empathy
Power up achieved!
I specifically omitted a few. I’ll be ready!
We should totally team up! It would be like Starkey and Hutch.
Who’s gonna be Huggy Bear?
I will. Ya dig?
Tonio, obvs.
Word on the street is…
Winning.
Jesus not all of us are bookworms. I mean it takes me a day or so to read Cat in the Hat.
I could never finish that one, the plot seemed too outlandish and the prose were not well constructed.
Oh lord. I will make some ridiculous list of fakery to make up for blathering about my books here. Sorry.
Nice HypnoToad call-out during the game.
Futurama is almost 25 years old.
WTF.
Elvis died like 20 years ago…in a nursing home after being attacked by a mummy; but yet people still talk about him.
A mummy? That was some sorta Bubba Ho-Tep
“What is this ‘the game’?”
College football championship. It’s a blow-out.
It’s just sad at this point.
Speaking of blow-outs, the Bruins won 7-1 last night; they are trying to get me to watch every game despite the stupidly-long season. 32-4-4 so far.
Right now? Holy fuck. What happened to New Year’s Day?
Oh yeah…💲🤑💸💰💲🤑💸💰
No, THIS is ‘The Game’
I think I saw that in the theater.
This:
https://youtu.be/OoYqfVzXAGw
Queen singing about The Game.
I love that movie.
dittoes
An early addition to my modest DVD collection.
I never did see that. I should rectify that. It looks cool as hell.
If you think about the logic it’s terrible, but it is a fun ride, and it’s David Fincher, so it’s well crafted.
In my youth I was interested in stunt performing to the point I was considering it as a career choice. I watched that movie entirely on the strength of the finale stunt work that I caught on a documentary. Wasn’t disappointed.
Yeah, some dude actually did fall through that glass ceiling, CGI can suck his cock.
Well, I was trying not to spoil it for MikeS…
Corridor Crew does a series called “Stuntmen React” on their YouTube channel, which is fun to watch, although they’ve taken to featuring like 90% stuntwomen now, because of course they have.
Stunning and brave
Corridor Crew are a bunch of posers though. Most of their shit is ‘We can do this now with our tech!’ and then they try to recreate something and it looks terrible.
Agreed, generally. I hate-watch their VFX Artists React series from time to time just to piss myself off, I guess. Inevitably they end up dick riding some PS4-looking big budget capeshit or disaster flick while I’m yelling “WTF are you talking about?! This looks like shit!”
Do it.
It’s hella fun.
No no, THIS is ‘The Game’
Lame Game. Am I right1? *Slow-mo High-five with the jock next to me*
Do you even “The Game” bro?
The Strange Death of Europe, by Douglas Murray.
A cautionary tale.
Trying to get The Abolition of Britain by Peter Hitchens on audiobook. Not on Audible.
Both sound interesting.
Purchased! Thank you.
“In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark.”. Corps of Discovery was full of some serious badasses
Why you celebrate those racist!
How many humans in 1803 weren’t real racists?
“Abbadon’s Gate”
2½ down, 6½ to go!
The beating is finished.
I feel kinda bad for Bennett – great underdog college career but his size will hold him back.
Doug Flutie redux.
The thing is, even with the 12 game play-offs the college game is fucking stupid, unless it’s only the winners of the conferences that get in. Why would a 5 Star go to a Mountain West team when they have no chance at winning a championship even if they go undefeated? Even if they went undefeated for all 4 years of that player’s career they probably couldn’t get in, because ‘strength of schedule’, even though if they were actually good those top schools wouldn’t play them, because then they might loose, so they’ll pay some shitty school to play them instead.
The BIG10 and SEC should break away and just have a 32-team organization with its own playoffs.
Every damn one of them should break away from their taxpayer funded schools and make the NFL actually pay for their minor league.
Piggy backing on my comment earlier in the day that I do want more Comic Book movies, but the current crop hasn’t interested me: I am looking forward to Ant Man 3. M.O.D.O.C. Bitches!
You are looking forward to the Anti-Man movie where they are almost definitely going to kill off Ant-Man and most of the movie will be based around his daughter who is going to take his place?
Well, Scott Lang isn’t even Ant-Man, so they
killed offskipped Ant-Man before they started the series. And yes, I am looking forward to it, for the first time since End Game Marvel has produced a movie that looks interesting. It may suck in the end, but at least it looks interesting. That’s the best I can say.Frankly, it looks like another CGI shit show. Maybe we should get an actual Hank Pym story at some point.
What ultimately makes CGI look like ass is that film lenses, and the human eye, have focal distances. Things close to us are out of focus, things far away are out of focus, then there is the sweet spot where things are in focus. When CGI looks like shit part of it is because EVERYTHING is in focus. I haven’t seen that in the trailers yet, but given Disney+Marvel- track record most of it will probably look like that, but at least I have hope.
I’m finishing up Scottish Covenanter Stories about the jolly old days in the 1600s when you could jailed, tortured and/or summarily executed for the heinous crime of saying Jesus Christ was the head of the Kirk rather than the British monarch.
We have it to easy these days……
Incidentally I argued a couple times with one of our former glibs about the merits of the Glorious Revolution and it’s bothering me that I can’t remember his handle….he was a prolific commenter, very well versed in history, pretty aggressively catholic…..not sure when/why he left
“Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”? I’ve had a beer or two too many to remember his “real” handle before he went into the “_________ apologist” shtcik. I really liked him. One of many good ones gone.
That was it! I still can’t remember what he was before it changed
Notorious GKC?
I guess that’s Eddie. Thought it was something Chesterton related. Maybe that was just the avatar. Menken?
Sounds like Eddie, who was going by Notorious GKC when he left, IIRC.
I also liked Eddie very much, but he was goaded into running afoul of the authorities.
I should trawl through the archives and make a visualization of commentators over time…
Definitely not Eddie. He left in one hell of a huff….TGA I think just sort of wandered away but I’m not sure. I know he ran afoul of Swiss a few times because he liked to jab at Protestants and could take it a little too far. Still he was a good intellect to have around
Yeah. TGA, someone else, and I, got cow-butted and scolded by Swiss about a very minor inter-Christian-sect religious joke once. Crazy shit.
Don’t you dare suggest that Christianity and its seconding god was an off-shoot of Firsting.
Talking smack about Methodists?
Yeah, folx be weird about religion. I believe you were there on the zooms when Hyak was trying to send me an audio book of on of the scriptures. Because I thought my Catholic parish was too protistanty…so of course I’d be open to protistant ideals…
It was all very low key until it wasn’t. TGA made a crack about Protestantism. Me being a Lutheran made some crack about that being the only “true” religion and then the Swiss Shit hit the fan. Sense a pattern?
That must have been during my hiatus. Quite frankly, I’m astonished to have learned how many closet Christians there were at Reason after they moved over here. Until pretty recently I never really broached the subject here because I figured it was a predominantly atheist crowd and it would go over like a lead balloon. Although it sounds like maybe I was better off keeping my mouth shut anyway.
I still don’t think Christianity and libertarianism mesh very well, the efforts of Norm Horn and his crew at their facile best notwithstanding. Ironic, since I spent my youth trying to evangelize libertarian politics to my few remaining Christian friends.
I’m going to have to think about this before I open my yap.
Also, I don’t think objectivism and parenthood go well together.
According to the 700 Club Catholics and Mormons aren’t Christian, so we don’t have to worry about this shit.
There’s a reason Ayn Rand never had children, and it certainly wasn’t any lack of interest in sex. Individualist egoism is nearly the antithesis of parenthood.
@CPRM, you’re not wrong. My mind. She is relieved.
@Pat, boy howdy, is it ever.
Technically the Catholics started it. The orthodox were considered schismatics, and the protestants heretics. The churches I’ve attended have all been protestant, but fairly ecumenical I guess. A red-letter soteriology would seem to be pretty straightforward, but the actual teachings of Jesus have almost nothing to do with church doctrine, so.
He has a pic of JK Chesterton as his avatar…
Yup.
Now I have a mashup of JK Rowling and GK Chesterton in my head.
Now, that’s a trans exemplary radical faith-er!
You might have been executed for blasphemy, but at least the rules for what constituted blasphemy were clearly defined.
You can run afoul of the left for things that weren’t considered sins at the time they were done, or simply not being perfectly up to date on the latest good think.
Eh, it wasn’t so different in the 1600s. The Covenanters were supporters of the Stewart dynasty and fought for him before they fought against him. And he granted them religious freedom, until he didn’t. Turns out there is nothing new under the sun.
“We groped painfully in our minds, not only to find justifications for the line laid down, but also to find traces of former thoughts which would prove to ourselves that we had always held the required opinion.”
-Arthur Koestler. Darkness at Noon.
Had a friend who recommended Master and Margarita as the anti-Atlas Shrugged after he read my book.
I am reading a scholarly work my publishing partner is getting ready to put in print, about eros in Mormon literature. I, natch, am heavily featured, which means I don’t have to read a good 200 pages of it since I wrote it.
“Cods, Cuntes, and Temple Garments from Frederick’s of Hollywood”
LOL
Mornin’ all.
Up early for the gym.
I have to get my car in the shop, and then head into the office. Work starts today.
Hey, DEG.
Have a great day. Knock ‘em dead.
I am halfway through the night; woke up for no reason and need to get more sleep. Have to drive over the Icy/rainy/snowy mountain pass between Pahrump and Las Vegas. Oh, and the company (DoE contractor) issued a high wind warning for tomorrow.
suh’ fam
Im off to take Tres Ver 2.0 to school, and drop by my friendly VA to beg for a prescription refill that THEIR contractor hasn’t managed to get done for me.
Mornin y’all
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8BYKpQ_6GbM
🎶🎶☕
Morning.
Good morning, Sean, U, Roat, homey (wherever you are,) and hayek (if you’re still awake.)
I’m to the point with work stuff where it’s not quite time to finish up one Big Thing yet, I’ve done a little preliminary prep work but don’t really need to dive into Other Big Thing yet, and I keep asking myself, “OK, what Yet Another Huge Thing am I forgetting about?”
Morning.
Good morning GT. Woke up far too early again, so I’m now conscious enough to de-lurk 😉
Good morning, SK! I notice by your revised handle that you’ve had a recent attitude adjustment. 😁
Yeah, I’m trying to be a little more positive. Life’s fighting back a bit, but so it goes.
https://6abc.com/philadelphia-city-hall-shooting-15th-street-jfk-boulevard-shots-fired-near/12680046/
I think that’s generally frowned upon.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/arrest-made-in-historic-railing-theft-outside-city-hall-das-office/ar-AA1694E3
Steal from retail all you want, but don’t steal from the state.
Isn’t that kinda the definition of theft?
Oh – wait. I think the state (or at least quite a few agents of the state) also recognize “theft by not giving.”
There’s multiple types of theft.
“Theft by conversion” is a common one. That’s when you abscond with an asset that you have rented or leased.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ellen-degeneres-videos-flood-waters-021254941.html
Ellen gets wet.
https://www.fox35orlando.com/video/1164276
Oh noes!!! The iguanas are adapting to the cold!!!
Pretty soon, they’ll be taking over the planet.
Fuzzy Iguanas – surf punk, or ironic cool lounge?
Will they beat joro spiders to Virginia?
Somewhere, Mr. Lizard is cackling maniacally.
As more dogs get sick, Montgomery Co. urges dog owners to consider skipping dog parks
Vax, mask, and distance people or we will lockdown.
I’m curious if this line of argument was ever used to convince people to take a vaccine before covid…
I recall flu vaccines were educated guess Before Covid as cold and flu viruses mutate quickly.
“If you think this drought is bad, imagine what it would be like had we not sacrificed 20 virgins!”
Vaccines never stop infection. They interrupt the replication phase, or they’re supposed to at least.
Mornin’, reprobates!
Good morning, ‘patzie!
Flowcharting a process so that the windows guy of [Current Supervisor] can follow is incredibly boring.
Here’s a handy guide to the perfect flowchart.
https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-draw-a-flowchart-that-will-print-an-infinite-loop?share=1
Sorry about that, I have no idea where thT came from. Yikes.
This one has to reflect the actual process. It’s just “How to issue a new SSL certificate and install it on our UNIX-based systems.”
DC elected officials want accountability after 13-year-old boy killed in shooting
FAFO
No one questioned why a 13 YO was roaming the streets at 4 AM?
He did love fashion and football but didn’t like respecting the property of others. As a 13 YO I was out of the house at about 5 AM, starting my paper route, wouldn’t have begun to think of breaking/entering/stealing other than a couple apples off Mr Hoivig’s tree in the fall.
I didn’t love fashion/football but I was a Laker fan when they were in Mps.
Sounds like the accountability already happened.
I want the parents accountable.
sigh….
Of course you are a bad republican if you question the wisdom of supporting the Ukrainians in war.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/01/the_reality_of_war.html
I noticed he glossed over explaining how Iraq II was a just war.
Also, a similar cry for war could have been written by a few gubers around here.
Putin has been far, far less aggressive than his American counterparts. Can’t repeat that enough.
I might go with less aggressive. I mean, he does have a couple, maybe three, invasions under his belt, and some foreign adventuring via the Wagner Group. Probably not quite as bad as the American government, but not too shabby either.
Still waiting for Putin to bomb training safe havens in Poland or Germany, target US personnel in Ukraine, or assassinate US general officers anywhere.
Or sticking our dick in the Middle East led to Gulf I, too.