It seems like you Glibs and libertarians in general read a lot of Science Fiction, with makes a bit of sense. It seems that there are a lot of theme’s in Sci-fi that are liberty oriented, or perhaps that is just confirmation bias and finding what one wants to find. I’m reminded of a Rush Limbaugh wanna-be I once heard while on a road trip. He was ripping on Hollywood liberals and all the shitty movies being made. One caller mentioned some recent movie that he thought was conservative because the hero was a businessman or something, then another caller mentioned a different movie and a different reason why it was conservative, and so on and so forth until after an hour of calls any movie that had a conflict between good guys and bad guys was conservative, so like 99% of movies. Also Sci-fi is a pretty popular genre in general so maybe Glibs and libertarians don’t really read more of it than the average bear. Anyhow enjoy this Glibcrostic and tell us in the comments if you think Glibs read more Sci-fi on average and if Sci-fi has more libertarian themes than other genres, or not… what do I care?
Music to solve Glibcrostics to
No Gimmie’s this week, if you look anything up you will be disqualified and your score wont go towards your final grade. Also this weeks music link isn’t a hint I just dig it.
Reminder: The last Sunday of each month is “What Are We Reading” Day so if you want to participate get your reports in to HeyBuddyStopDoingThat@protonmail.com by the second to last Sunday.
Sci-fi is a pretty popular genre in general
Maybe now, but it didn’t always seem that way. Or maybe it was just SF in print. Sci fi movies have been popular all along, though.
That’s an interesting question TH. On the whole, yes, I think SF has more libertarian themes than other fiction subgenres.
I really enjoyed William Gibson’s early work. It was not overtly libertarian but it always operated in a setting where government was largely absent or quite remote. I’m sure Gibson is not a libertarian. Still his work dealt with all sorts of technology and social interaction that would occur in the absence of government control.
I’m surprised more Glibs don’t read westerns. Or maybe many do and it isn’t mentioned as often as SciFi?
See, Bro. This is how you first. I know you can’t understand yet, but when you’ve completed your small part in our plans it will all become clear.
Watching you attempt to First is like watching a prostitute attempt to be a good housewife.
There’s a point where one has simply sucked too many dicks for cash to be reformed. Likewise, there is a point where one has seconded so much in their life that they don’t even know what a First looks like. The second can no more be taken out of MikeS than the crusty remnants of semen can be extracted from the throat of a whore.
I don’t read fiction but I do read bios of western people and events, early settlements, etc, more historical stuff of early politicians. A lot of stuff included that may well be fictionalized.
I read a lot of travelogues usually. I think more so than sci fi.
I like westerns, mentioned one in last week’s WAWR. I just don’t come across new ones that often, maybe I’m just not looking but crime and thrillers and mysteries appear to be 90% of the new books I see on amazon or at the library.
I’m not up on new fiction, don’t have a lot of time for reading, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the Western genre is a shell of what it used to be.
I read both country and westerns
+3 Orange Whips
Your OT stupidity of the day.
NY school apologizes for serving chicken and waffles on first day of Black History Month
Funny how I see white people cooking chicken and waffles all the time on cooking shows.
Like southern food? Okay, then.
Would it have been OK on the second day? The 2nd Wednesday of the month? The last day?
So damn tedious.
On March 5th?
Was anyone wearing clothing made from cotton???
I enjoy growing and eating watermelon(s). Chicken comes from KFC and Col Sanders is an old white guy anyway.
Went to breakfast yesterday morning. Many white people were eating that stuff right next to black people in the same restaurant without any conflict.
Unpossible!
And chicken and waffles was specifically invented in a Harlem restaurant and remains closely affiliated with Harlem from what I recall of Food Network shows/mentions. So seems extra odd to treat celebrating it as racist… but that’s my white supremacy expecting logic or something.
Only succeeded at one Glibcrostic so far… here’s hoping for a better result today…
Weird… won’t open in Firefox today.. had to open in Edge. Bleck… well, off to try it.
The online version opened in Firefox for me. Weird.
Good luck!
Success — but admittedly with probably more duck duck go searches than a true aficionado would do. C’est la vie.
Anything worth having is worth cheating for.
(I DDGed the hell out of it!)
“But we like chicken and waffles!”
-Everyone
I saw the ultimate food stereotype play out at an Old Country Buffet.
It was really busy at lunch, and an older black guy was in front of me in line. He had two plates on his tray. When we finished going through the buffet, he had one plate stacked up with just fried chicken and the other watermelon. I didn’t see if he got a grape soda to wash it down.
I’d like to see the writer of that explain how liking fried chicken is a negative stereotype.
I’ve had sci-fi writers take me out of a story with liberal dogma. Kim Stanley Robison and John Scalzi come to mind.
So much sci-fi is drowning in klimate katastrophe nonsense and that was decades ago. I can only imagine how much worse it is today given that I don’t read many new authors.
This – Robinson had humans terraforming two other planets in his Mars series, but not Earth.
Earth is holy, a sacred object.
Yeah, I noticed that with Scalzi. It was tedious.
Scalzi is just a very mediocre storyteller.
The universe he created was interesting, but he didn’t seem to know what to do with it. Maybe that’s why he quit writing.
If SF’s updates from the mist are representative, modern SF authors seem more obsessed with “gender expression”. Which isn’t surprising.
I have some favorites I discovered in the last 20 years or so who are still putting shit out – e.g. Alastair Reynolds, Peter Hamilton – but I’m super hesitant to bother with recent authors I don’t know.
Also every Godzilla movie ever.
I’ve never finished a KSR book.
Okay, so. Here’s my story.
Once upon a time, I was very namby pamby about my characters’ reasons for doing or not doing certain things (religion and politics). Kinda hinted here and there, but wasn’t even brave enough to commit to that much. Then, a few years later…
I read Ayn Rand.
Unrelated, someone rec’d Sheri S Tepper to me.
So I read the two somewhat contemporaneously to each other. Now, Tepper is a radfem with a taste for eugenics, totalitarianism, and collectivism, but even her heavy-handedness couldn’t take me out of the story, she was that good. I admired how out and proud she was of her agenda, even though I realized that at the time, it was the accepted agenda, so no real risk was involved.
HOWEVER.
I decided that if she could be that out and proud, so could I. If *I* could love her storytelling, then someone who doesn’t like my agenda maybe will like MY storytelling. And I was way more right than I thought I would be.
Rand “The question is not who is going to let me; it’s who it’s going to stop me” didn’t give me the courage/permission to write my agenda.
Tepper did.
Baller.
Yeah, there are a few writers who get a pass on this stuff for me, unless it’s too in your face.
If I’m not prying, which Tepper book(s) did you read? I’m a huge fan of Grass, and I think she raises some interesting points in the next 2 books of that series, Raising the Stones and, esp., Sideshow. IMNSHO, she started to fall off after those. TBH, I couldn’t finish The Gate to Women’s Country, or Beauty.
LOL, Gate to Women’s Country and Beauty, but almost entirely GtWC. Beauty introduced to me the idea that some kids are just born bad.
I read another by her, with a fresco or something, but it didn’t resonate like the other two.
Thanks! Yeah, I know the one you mean. I thought it was rather weak. GtWC May have been a problem for me as I was enmeshed in a whole bunch of “everything bad is because of men” from feminist friends and acquaintances. The friends left from that era have moderated, or at least don’t preach it.
Long ago, RC Dean said something that also resonated with me in relation to GtWC: the alpha males are pretty useless for anything but fucking and fighting, but they are indispensable for those. My quibble with GtWC is that Tepper never actually acknowledged (with any intellectual honesty at all) that there was, in fact, a need for the fighting part.
I mean, as a romance author, “alpha” males are my stock in trade, so her depiction of all of them as asshole meatheads offended me a tidge, but I got the gist of the story, so I went with it because I’m good at riding the ride the author wants to take me on.
She made me think and she gave me permission/courage to do something I’d been wanting to do, but was afraid (that a publisher wouldn’t buy my book). I mean, I read that somewhere around 1999 and here I am 24 years later still thinking about it, talking about it, seeing it on my bookshelf. That’s influence.
To be fair, Drake, that can happen in any genre. Lord knows the number of mystery novels with that problem.
Eric Flint, who can’t not litter his work with pro-union propaganda.
GLIBCROSTIC!!! 😃
I’ll be back after a while. Talk amongst yourselves. ::clicks “Online Version” link::
…and done. Thanks, Teh Hype!
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OT Range Report:
Took the newish AR to the range to try different ammo at 100 yards to see which the rifle likes best. I’m no sniper and my hands were getting cold by the end…
Checked my zero and got started with Frontier 62 grain 5.56 – about 1.5 inch group.
Frontier 68 grain was a disappointment and at over 3 inches. Surprising it did worse than the 62 grain.
Norma .223 69 grain Golden Target was the big winner (no surprise). The 5-shot group was about .8 inches but 4 of them were touching at a .3 inches. I think I paid 80 cents a round for it – on sale with a coupon. I’ll buy again when it’s on sale and I have a coupon.
Palmetto Armory is now making their own ammo which is great.
AAC 77 and 75 gain both had groups under an inch with the 75 grain a bit better. I paid 60 cents a round and got a military discount (almost negated the sales tax) when I showed my VA card. I’ll be buying a lot more of this stuff.
You shoot way better’n me. Center of mass at a deer sized bullseye at 50 yards will make me happy (and the deer unhappy).
Was using every cheat there is – from a benchrest (the only way they let you shoot on that range), with the scope cranked all the way up, and a sandbag supporting the front of the rifle.
What length barrel? Twist?
18″ 1/8. 5R
AAC needs to bump their 5.56mm loads up to 5.56mm pressure. They’re giving away 100-150fps, and 50-100 yards of effective range (assuming defensive use against people.) Other than that, it’s very good ammo.
I noticed that it shot as soft as the Norma .223.
I need a Firsucopia of Firsts to cleanse my pallet of this nerd shit.
I read a lot of SF, even subscribed to SF book club for awhile. Then about 40 years ago, I no longer found it interesting and dropped SF completely. Might have been a LeGuin book that soured me but suddenly the genre no longer appealed
If I’m remembering correctly, I’ve seen you comment before about preserving a military cemetery and doing some in depth research on some soldiers or military units from the Civil War or Revolutionary War in Pennsylvania. Would you mind expanding on that a bit for me?
I find that stuff really interesting, especially the Civil War. I’ve read tons of books on it, mainly when I was younger.
That’s my interest. Any specific questions? I’m recovering from cataract surgery and can’t see keyboard enough to type anything lengthy.
Main curiosity is the units and / or battles of the people you research. Is the cemetery for veterans from the area or a cemetery for soldiers killed in a specific battle.
Me and my brother finally freed up some time the last two years to start hitting some of the bigger battle sites. We did Shiloh, Chatanooga, and Chicamauga a couple years ago along with some earlier Grant battles. Last year was Gettysburg, Antietem, and a stop at Harper’s Ferry. I hope to do some in Virginia next winter.
The Civil War cemetery is an AME cemetery abandoned circa 1920 and now in private hands, with owner not allowing access. There are about 100 burials there from the local African American community. Eleven burials are former USCT soldiers, several of whom were enslaved, rest were free blacks. None of them died in combat; all from different regiments (no 54th Mass.). There is a State law that requires counties to maintain veteran graves if the owner refuses. I prefer getting the owner to do the right thing, but the County is making him aware of their responsibilities if he decides to deny access to veteran graves for purpose of honoring them (say, on Memorial Day). Long term goal is to acquire the cemetery for as little $$$ as possible.
Thanks for the info, very interesting. I had to look up AME, I have never heard of that religious group before. Pretty crappy on the property owner’s part and good on you for wanting to preserve the site.
I like LeGuin, but she isn’t for everybody. Same way that military SF isn’t.
LeGuin was a very early favorite of me, some of the first SF I read not by Asimov or Clark.
She got a little hippy-dippy for my taste later on but her early stuff still holds up for me.
I’m in the same place. Modern Sci-fi just doesn’t appeal to me, and the stuff I read as a kid isn’t that interesting anymore.
Too white.
https://www.kcci.com/article/dnc-revokes-the-iowa-caucus-first-in-the-nation-status/42764212
Can we get rid of the corn in my gas tank now?
State law says the Iowa caucus must occur before any other primary or caucus.
This will generate problems. The Iowa Dem party will be forced to move in front of the other contests. The national party will punish the local party and reject the results of the caucus. Lawsuits will follow.
It should be quite entertaining.
Excellent. Let their racism flag fly for the whole country to see.
They’ve been doing that for 20 years without issue.
I thought the Democrats couldn’t get New Hampshire state law changed.
Rule of men, not rule of law.
Nah, it’ll be fine.
We should be so lucky.
I would imagine that libertarian themes are most common in sci-fi because you won’t find any in history. We have to hope that social evolution favors freedom.
The most libertarianish period in the US was when the West was wide open. The hope is that space travel opens up a “New Frontier” for freedom.
I have a feeling that we’re doomed, regardless.
Even if it does, it won’t be in our lifetimes.
In other words, people that want freedom need to be able to escape all other people. We need to evolve beyond that, if we can.
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I’m not sure that I understand this comment.
Well, without a frontier (Western or off-planet) – the libertarians have no escape hatch from default society. If we can’t escape society, we have to change it. That’s what I mean by evolving socially – evolving beyond the standard HeyBuddy that characterizes ‘normal’ social behavior.
Procedures were followed.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11716007/Horrifying-moment-Florida-police-drag-69-year-old-man-elevator-shooting-him.html
From the picture it appears he was already both sot and handcuffed.
Too white; don’t care.
Wut.
I’m assuming he was criminally charged.
Mighty convenient however.
You are probably right but that doesn’t explain 3 weeks of being unable to contact him.
Yeah, there’s your tell.
Cops knew they fucked up and didn’t want him to make contact with anyone else before he died. I wonder if he even got an attorney visit.
Hang ’em all.
If someone legally carrying a gun is a license for the cops to kill them, then it really isn’t legal to carry a gun.
If some less-stable member of Cottes’ family decided to gun down those two pigs at high noon on the courthouse lawn, in front of God and the Rotary club, and I were on the trial jury? “Not Guilty, your honor, on the grounds that the victims were not real people.”
Book recommendation:
Looking for a book on revolutions/civil wars. Trying to understand how they are started/fought/defended, and how they end.
Any great reads out there?
Burke’s Reflections on the French Revolution? I haven’t read it myself but it is on my list.
Thank you for the recommendation.
Hope you all are having a wonderful day.
For you:
https://twitter.com/chaoticclubvids/status/1621964958291345410
Perfect smile.
Yup. That’s a keeper.
She has good hands.
Very handy.
Shot against the backdrop of the gal in Doc Martens wearing shorts with side cutouts to show off the underwear.
Nice Hunter Biden video.
80’s version
Greatest Beer Catch of All Time
Reminder for the VA-area Glibs: would like to meet y’all at Gourmeltz on Tuesday. We will shoot for being there 4-5 ish.
Tonio: Should be there by 5, hopefully a bit sooner. Dinner?
Dallas Glibs: Will be there next Sunday (Hyper-Bowl Sunday). Time and place TBD by someone who lives there. Late lunch, early afternoon?
I will try to make it to Gourmeltz.
I will be the garden gnome accompanied by the supermodel.
I’m nearby so can usually get there on short notice. Send me an update at RatOnATrain -> proton.me. I will monitor on Tuesday.
What? Shit! How did I not hear about this? Why would you guys schedule a meetup when I’m working?
I need my Brisket Bomber!
Tried to give advanced heads-up. Hope you can make it.
TBH, this was supposed to be yesterday but we have altered our travel plans.
Hmm. The boss is on vacation this week…
When the cat’s away, the mice go to Gourmeltz all day.
Nice. Just got to San Diego. Here in CA for the next 2 weeks.
I was hoping to meet up with you. Can you pass along the secret password for your buddy at Gourmeltz?
I’m thinking that, “Taxation is theft” should do it.
Just talk poorly of VABC and the state health department.
Mil/vet ID gets you a discount any day
San Diego in February. Lucky bastard. I never get trips to nice places.
I posted in the forum regarding Dallas. Hoping for a lunch, maybe depart around 2:30. I will text Trashy and see if he has food suggestions.
Saw it. Your timing works for us. Keep in touch.
jemezhobbit at the pm dot me
Seems there is a mistake in the clues.
There is no non-shitty Mark Knopfler song.
That is true.
Blasphemers!
Fuck you all, along with any offspring you may have whelped.
You guys don’t like Sultans of Swing?
Granted, I’ll give you Walk of Life.
Granted, I’ll give you Walk of Life.
Every band/artist has to have their “Jump”, in fact their lucky if they only have one.
I like Walk of Life only because it’s one of the handful of songs I can play and sing along with. Mostly.
I like “Jump” – but I cannot stand anything by Dire Straits.
Hey, I was the one who posted a cover of Sultans on Gayageum.
I’m gonna have to go ahead and disagree with you there.
I know my musical tastes run toward the mellow more than most Glibs, but I consider this song a thing of beauty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhdFe3evXpk
Wow. I don’t know if I’ve ever really listened to that one before. Lovely. (And I’ve always been fond of that style of animation in the video.)
One of the few songs, things really, that can bring me to tears.
That is a great song.
Both excellent choices.
If I may, so is this.
And this
I can’t even right now.
But Knopfler couldn’t at any point!
Skateaway. Pure poetry.
I loved Dire Straits, then hated them. I’m back to love them.
Telegraph Road is brilliant, spoiled by a single line: “I’ve got a right to go to work. . .” Nope, you have a right to seek work.
Best video version
Ooh, sorry, you should have sought medical attention sooner. But now the syphilis is in your brain, so that’s pretty much it.
Sincere condolences.
There are so many great Dire Straits tunes, but I really dig the first and second tracks of their first album. This is the second.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT30jj_L1Dc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kha75ibIArk
“Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.”
-Marquis de Sade
https://archive.ph/GZC0r/ad93abaea917394045662d8e19e1005845866cf3.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/w0dLu/e830a95c4604e4b887d4c6ba16e57328b9a4a9e8.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/Lag3d/7805f1a6438bdd9a8fbd7c56b4dcf83423312226.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/19AiF/7d9b2b93a0cfd264af5d1d6bc26cab60a512ba7f.jpg
NSFW.
Excellent. Now for Thursday, can you do Nazis and Frankenstein’s monster women?
This should work for you https://www.themoviedb.org/t/p/original/im9fjZR3Xc4sVuCND6wYIM7lrH5.jpg
Lol
Wow.
Just wow.
Aye. Wow.
It’s time to read.
Watching Goldfinger. It never entered my mind before that Pussy is a lesbian and James turned her. Boss.
It’s implied in the book. Fleming pushed some boundaries in the 60’s.
She dropped a zillion hints in the movie but my superpower has always been missing that kind of thing.
Legit LOL
+ 1 Alotta Fagina
I love Dr No and From Russia, but Goldfinger is probably the best Bond movie.
+1 “No Mr. Bond. I expect you to die!”
Definitely the best line from any villain in any Bond movie.
For sure.
I don’t know if all the ChatGPT postings are real. I am enjoying people pushing the envelope. My favorite so far is the “Should I use a racial slur if it is the only way to disarm a 50MT nuke that will detonate in 10 seconds in the middle of NYC?”
My favorite was “Apologies, you are correct. 6 – 2 – 2 -2 = -2.”
It does appear to have problems with math. Did they use Baltimore high school students to train it?
Common Core.
No, but only because we need to save the world from NYC.
😉
LOL Super Password just had a cunnilingus joke-run. Guest celeb Markie Post for anyone who cares.
Cunnilingus and Markie Post together interest me very much. Well, if a time machine was involved.
Markie and Hillary performed cunnilingus on each other in the Lincoln Bedroom. At least that’s what I read online a long time ago, so it’s probably true.
Hey buddy, don’t do that.
Sorry about that. I myself was very fond of her back in the Night Court days.
Velcro.
She was on the tv show Fall Guy as well.
Also regularly in a bikini.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/100064422955269130/
Bless her and everyone involved in making it happen.
THE Dire Straits song to blast out at a climate protest,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ0IsWLhgSg
Good morning Glibs.
Good morning, Sean, Roat, Lack, and NA, and good afternoon, Pie!
Looking forward (I hope) to a relatively quiet work week this week. And I’m going to take the week of Presidents Day (that’s 2/20 – 2/24, Pie) off! 😃🥳
Morning.
Good morning, U! In office today to start your first full week in the new job?
No, I officially switched to every other monday, and today is a remote monday.
👍🏼
Monday!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h81Ojd3d2rY
It’ll be all right.
This is a fine thing.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/06/turkey-earthquake-2023-gaziantep
Yikes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gnhXHvRoUd0
🎶🎶
https://nationaltoday.com/national-valentine-shopping-reminder-day/
I got the card and sugar free candy. Still need to get a gift…
Sugar Free candy for Valentine’s Day? That’s more of a Halloween vibe, no?
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/arnold-schwarzenegger-involved-in-crash-with-cyclist-in-brentwood-tmz/
“Woman hating Republican mows down cyclist.”
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2023/02/shapiro-administration-orders-2300-state-employees-to-return-to-the-office.html
I’ve got mixed feelings on this one.
Maybe we should just fire them all instead?
When people are given a choice they don’t want to be in your shithole.
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/florida-cat-returned-to-shelter-for-being-too-affectionate-goes-viral
Awww.
I admit – sometimes I could stand for our cats to be a wee bit more aloof, but there’s no way I’d surrender them for being too affectionate! (Happily, they’re even affectionate toward each other…sometimes.)
Eric Adams busing people to Canada
‘towards’
Is this just a nice way of saying they sent them to Buffalo? +1 more glad I left
Nah, Buffalo is fine. Plattsburgh needs to diversify though.
They love to send nepalis and Burmese there, so why not other ‘refugees?’
Trudy can deny reality longer than Adams, I would guess.
Say what you want about Trudy, he seems to have inherited from his Papa the willingness to use force to suppress domestic unrest. Adam’s can’t go there.
I’ve been getting “Maple Leave” commercials on youtube to encourage me to vacation in Canada eh? It is fascinating the actors the ad agency chose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EztBsr8hiNQ
Bonus points for making the fancy Asian a scientist.
so not one but two 7.5+ earthquakes in the same day in Turkey. Damn.
That sucks, lots of pancaked buildings in three pictures.
Also, is it just me or are they just grabbing people’s cellphone pictures? The quality is far less than you’d expect from a reporter.
Photojournalists don’t want to go to dangerous places anymore.
Be grateful every article isn’t just social media links tied together with some filler.
Mornin ‘, reprobates!
Good morning, ‘patzie! How’s everything and everybody?
Mornin ‘, GT. Today I shall apply for Social Security, to start collecting on June 1. Thanks on advance to
allmost of the glibs for working to support the wealthiest demographic in the U.S. of A. Frank Zappa allegedly said this to an audience:at the Whisky-a-Go-Go:” If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they’ll murder you in your sleep.”
I think he was on to something, and hope my sons move out soon.
But I’ve paid into the “trust fund” all my life! Younger generations owe me.
You fucked up, you trusted the fund.
You claw back those dollars just as quick as you can! 🤑
I am in the office and got a tear in the crotch of my jeans. Goddamnit. They are fairly new, fairly loose. Fucking things they dont make them how they used to
Sorry dude.
Daily mail has video of people running away from collapsing building. (earthquake)
Mornin’ GT and all, and good afternoon Pie.
Good morning, Shirley!
OMG. SNL made something that’s kind of funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiIRlg4Xr5w