Probably my least inspired puzzle yet, but I’ve been procrastinating all week and this is what you get with a quickly approaching deadline. Bookwise I have nothing all that interesting either, lets see — how about this, is there a book or Author whom everyone else seems to dig that you just don’t like? I’ve said before that Moby Dick is a horrible novel and I appear to be alone on that point. Work this boring puzzle and let us know in the comments, or not, you do you.
Music to solve Glibcrostics to
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.
One more libertarian moment from Clarkson’s farm.
He had to cull 3 ewes that couldn’t be bred. When he took them to the abbatoir, he had to fill out several pages of state paperwork on each. Transport license, etc. By the time he got done with the paperwork, the animals were already slaughtered.
It was faster to kill and butcher 3 sheep than it was to comply with government paperwork about the sale and slaughter.
Was the meat being sold or home use? Locally I believe the butcher comes to the farm, kills the animal and takes it away for processing. The owner picks it up processed, wrapped and frozen. I don’t know about selling to the butcher though.
We used to process all our own venison, anymore we haul it to the butcher, give him the processing instructions and come back a few weeks later, pay and pick up.
The beef I buy from a friend is slaughtered in the field, transported to the butcher, and then I pick it up a few weeks later. Everything is marked “not for sale”.
Clarkson is in Britain, and it is a commercial slaughterhouse. They did retain the meat for sale at his farm store.
Another day, another book, I’ll save the particulars for the EOM article. I’m not really a slow reader but don’t spend a lot of time reading so it takes me awhile. I get a few books from Hamilton Book Company, mostly historical, my kids send me books, etc. I have an Employee Discount Card from Half Price Books but can’t make it to their stores anymore. I used to get an annual stipend from HPB, I could fill up my winter’s reading and some times get in under the annual gift.
I need a reason to read. I miss reading a little.
I read short-form contemporary stuff such as Glibs and news, but that’s it. I don’t think I want to read any more history or science or philosophy: I feel full….and bored. Everything is just noise: the bigger issues (and problems and root causes) aren’t changing. I don’t feel like I can become wiser ( I could become more patient ): no amount of cool books about the history or theory of baseball is going to make the little league shit that this life is made out of manageable. I already know the laws of the game and the laws the ball obeys as it flies and bounces about and it’s a crappy version of the game being played and so fuck it all, I’m just going to drink scotch and play Little Wing over and over on a cool old acoustic until I die and this place burns down.
how about this, is there a book or Author whom everyone else seems to dig that you just don’t like?
“Lady Chatterley’s Lover”.
A book about shitty people that I found a slog to get through.
The Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
anything by John Updike
I think they’re popular because they’re accessible, which is a good thing, but they’re not great. Just because you can teach something in the sixth grade doesn’t mean it should be on a top ten list….indeed: is that disqualifying?
Chew into The Sound and the Fury for depth and range. Try Catch-22 for predicting the inane, hopeless, suffocating bureaucratic mess we find ourselves in.
Last of the Mohicans insults every character within and the reader’s intelligence as well.
I wasn’t impressed with “The Catcher in the Rye”. I remember chatting with a friend about that book. He asked, “Is it just me, or is Caulfield just a whiner?” I said, “No, it’s not just you. He’s a whiner.”
His little beloved brother died, he’s not close to his remaining family, dislikes his boarding-school classmates, the teacher he liked makes a pass at him, and he ends up in a sanitarium. He’s stressed out and lonely. All he has left is his little sister and his female friend.
But the rest of Salinger: concur, dislike. I could never get much into Martin Amis either, but I don’t own much fiction.
*er, beloved little
I would agree with you except the short story A Good Day for Bananafish. That is wonderful.
My remembrance of the book is he dug damn near all those holes himself, and he just keep digging in.
Yeah, teens be dum.
If I want that, I’ll re-read Crime and Punishment. *That* was a novel worth reading.
I know I had to read it in either high school or college. I honestly remember precisely none of it — which tells you how much I cared about it or found it worthwhile.
I had to read the “The Great Gatsby” for English Lit, luckily I was in the hospital with an extended stay after surgery. I had about 10 days to get through it and then an exam when I got back to class. I would never have read it for funsies. Have not read any others and apparently not missed too much.
Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3172/3172-h/3172-h.htm
That’s a great piece of literary invective.
And the writing is piss poor. Lawrence had writen some good shorts; The Horse Dealers Daughter is one. But Lady Chatterly is so much in the Tell Them, Don’t Bother To Show Them school that it is really pathetic.
Pride and Prejudice
It was like reading the diary of a bitchy high school cheerleader reeking with gossip about the other girls. Classic, my ass — give me George Eliot for English Lit any day.
Moby Dick can be a very entertaining read, as long as you are just reading it. Generations of high school teachers looking for deeper meaning have ruined the book for generations.
Originally the book was serialized and Melville wanted papers to buy it, so his descriptions of whaling and seamanship are generally good. Whaling was a huge industry so people wouldn’t read Melville’s product if it was utter bullshit. I enjoy the book for the sailing and whaling and don’t get carried away by all the “what does it mean” hype. If the book is TL:DR is can be summarized as, “People go hunting for big fish* and have some success but the biggest fish turns the table on them.”
*Yes I know a whale is a mammal.
It’s all about his obsession with his mother.
Obviously
https://www.amazon.com/Stove-Whale-Owen-Chase-Essex/dp/0819562440
It’s better in context.
“Why did the author write this?” killed many great works. Because he needed money and it’s a fucking job doesn’t cut it for English teachers.
The whole bit about kneading sperm whale goo sticks out. My high school English teacher gently suggested that it was allegorical of a circle jerk. In a million years, I would not have suggested that.
Let me guess… teacher also believes Frodo and Sam were gay lovers and the real problem between Sam and Smeagol was jealousy.
And said teacher probably runs the drama club… with a love of musical theater…
Yeah, the interaction with the other sailor (whose name I can’t remember how to spell) is a plausible source for such implications, but taking the literal description of whaling practices as anything other than a literal description is ignorant wishful thinking.
I faked my way through that one – could not stand it.
I think I read this one before Moby Dick – but Moby Dick was pretty soon after. Good adventure stuff for young readers.
Regular Car Reviews’ Car show compliment challenge.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/unfuckable-hate-nerds-william-deresiewicz
In case you feel sorry for guys who are so useless and unmanly that insanely horny 18-year-girls don’t notice them
Why, yes, those things are a start. But mean them. As in, get a job or live on the street.
Let me know when they start attacking the females who can’t land a husband. Oh wait women get to do what they want with no societal expectations. They’ve become men with no sense of accountability or purpose. But young men? It’s fine to judge them solely on how the opposite sex values them.
Modern women are largely worthless for anything but a pump and dump. Call me a misogynist. And male hobbies getting mocked as childish is old. Video games are what…an $80 billion a year industry?
Main point isn’t to denigrate women. But every lifestyle choice is supposed to be applauded. Not even just excused. They are adult children in society’s eyes and assigned no blame for its problems.
Yeah, male incels are treated as objects of ridicule, but the cat ladies who are female incels, not so much.
Also, try suggesting that there’s even such a thing as toxic femininity.
Naw, the whole spinster thing has just started to die down. There are still pockets where an unmarried woman is ridiculed. “What’s wrong with her?”
Not among the progressive elite who run the world.
I bet you it’s just the quiet part that no one says out loud.
The difference is that with male incels, *of course* you’re supposed to say the quiet part out loud.
Yes. Your point is correct.
Plenty of props are full of shit and don’t say what they really think. Wouldn’t argue that. But there are plenty of true believers and deluded females/feminists.
The concept in some Asian countries of “forgotten women” does raise a little bit of interest on my part – not sure about the connection aspect for folks closer to my age though (esp thinking about folks who might have made the military a career in Japan or Korea too).
That was a pretty good piece actually, I think he has analyzed the situation more or less correctly. Although I think one thing that is often overlooked in the discussion of alienated young men is the natural sex imbalance. There is and always has been more young men than young women, which will always cause a problem. I think in the old days this was solved in part by adventuring (go to war, go exploring, make your fortune in the world) which would very often solve the problem by leaving the seeker either successful or dead.
Interesting
https://zerohedge.com/technology/musks-tweet-limiting-move-prevent-completion-ai-censorship-death-star
I’ve been on it writing and ready and retweeting to my heart’s content and can’t imagine what the real problem is
maybe I’m too boring and small to draw any attention ?
Starting acrostic at 4:13 p.m. US EDT. We’ll see how badly I do…
…finished at 4:33.
Nice work 👍
Kiddos, 5 and 15 months. I’m reading Skippy John Jones and Berenstain Bears.
Skippy John Jones at least did not suck — one of my son’s favorite sets in an earlier time.
ah yes, for books to read to a toddler, I did enjoy those. And also the “Bear” series by Karma Wilson (e.g. “Bear Snores On”). Beautiful art and charming little stories.
Bad Kitty was also fun.
All of the books are pretty good. Lost In Spice is
My favorite. Decent Dune joke.
Pitch meeting to save Bud Light.
Nice.
Laughed too hard at that one.
Mark Twain. A competely overwrote, pompous bore. Everything is either black or white, no middle ground. Not very funny, either. Which is funny, as everyone says he is so funny.
Another one is Catch-22, and everything else by Heller. So overwriten, so boring. A none trick pony.
Catch 22 is funny, after you get out of the military.
Have you ever read The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg? I just read it after Taibbi mentioned it, and it fits quite nicely with the Lorenzo Warby series on Helen Dale’s substack.
That one is one of the reasons I was reminded of how black and white is thinking is. Normally I enjoy the Taibbi Kirn talks on lit, even if I don’t like a particular. But everything about that piece reinforces my opinion of Twain.
I guess calling out hypocrisy is a black-and-white thing?
Calling out hypocrisy when an author creates the stakes – both good and bad – is shooting fish in a barrel.
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. I am (was) a patient reader and couldn’t get past page 50. Also time travel is not my bag.
Lord of the Rings, maybe Tolkein in general. Loved the Jackson movies, slogged my way through Fellowship of the Ring once years ago, but tried to reread it recently and just couldn’t stick with it.
Book/Author I really dig that no other Glibs seem to like: Chronicles of St. Marys series/Jodi Taylor. (Time travel IS my bag, though I haven’t tried Outlander,)
also Dune
but I don’t think they’re necessarily bad so much as I have no motivation to care about fantasy: it’s just too hard to create a fake world that is compelling to me
Lord of the Rings, maybe Tolkein in general.
BLASPHEMER!
“Bored of the Rings” was Tolkien’s best.
Relevant: https://youtu.be/vmuT8UeTk4s
I liked the one I read. It was very entertaining
I just read #14 in the series (not counting the numerous short stories that come out in between the full-length novels,) The Good, The Bad and The History within about a week of its release on June 22nd.
I will say I’m kinda in the same boat. I enjoyed the LotR films but saw them before reading the books (I had read The Hobbit before), and when I tried reading the books after the fact I realized that I liked the films better. Which is funny because then he made that Hobbit trilogy and I’m definitely in the book is better crowd on that one.
The movies took a giant shit on Aragorn and a small shit on Faramir. They majorly fucked up the oathkeepers, and turning Legolas into some kind of superhero makes one wonder why the elves didn’t just send a couple dozen warriors to dispatch the armies of Mordor.
Other than that, I enjoyed them.
The book is the greatest novel ever written.
Game of Thrones. Garbage.
Did Chadwick ever hop in the pool or did he content himself with rearranging ice?
The look on his face was priceless.
I put him in there and he hung out for a bit, but he didn’t lie down in it. Maybe I need to filled the pool with ice. That will take about 4 or 5 bags.
Yes. So glad I bailed after 3, which was 2 too many.
If the Zoom is still going, I may hop on later
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
I skip anything by Neal Tyson deGrasse. He is the anti Carl Sagan science explainer. Sagan can be tough sometimes with the whole nuclear winter schtick, but he didn’t treat his readers like slow children.
I have never read any Harry Potter or Games of Thrones so I “nope” to them as well.
OT: there’s a gem museum in Memphis?
Because Sagan had charisma.
Anything Steinbeck.
The Pearl had me wanting to stab my eye with a pencil.
I haven’t read The Pearl but I enjoyed Cannery Row and Tortilla Flats.
Moby Dick can be a very entertaining read, as long as you are just reading it. Generations of high school teachers looking for deeper meaning have ruined the book for generations.
Originally the book was serialized and Melville wanted papers to buy it, so his descriptions of whaling and seamanship are generally good. Whaling was a huge industry so people wouldn’t read Melville’s product if it was utter bullshit.
Don’t ask me why, but this question popped into my head a couple of days ago. How many of the whaling ships lost at sea were because they burned to the water line as the result of on board fires from processing the blubber?
One good thing about Covid hysteria is that now we can get just about anything delivered to our doors. I needed to replenish the fridge and pantry after letting them empty prior to my recent travel, and was dreading getting dressed and decent enough to go out.
Then I remembered I didn’t have to! I placed my order with Safeway, put my canvas wagon outside the door, and eventually heard a knock at the door. Pulled in the filled wagon and am now restocked! Yay!
I have never done that, because I’m sure there is a fee and an expected tip that I am too cheap to pay.
Dune, pretty much anything by Faulkner, a lot of Hemingway. I probably have started Dune three or four times. I just can’t get into it
Dune fascinated me from start to finish, even as a teenager. I had hardly ever been pulled into something “epic” like that.
But you are a fan of other sci-fi series, right? I’ve never read WOT or some of the other stuff discussed here, so I can’t compare; but I did enjoy all of Frank Herbert’s work on Dune. I can’t say the same for Brian’s hackery.
try Barn Burning: it’s short; the protagonist is my dad, and his dad is my grandfather….I know these people and it’s as real as anything written
then try Soldier’s Pay: very humane, not at all Southern
To go off topic:
Most Americans approve of Supreme Court decision restricting use of race in college admissions: POLL
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/americans-approve-supreme-court-decision-restricting-race-college/story?id=100580375
Go, a little bit of good news, as no matter how the “media” try to spin this, people are seeing through.
“A little more than half of Americans — 52% — approve of the U.S. Supreme Court decision on restricting the use of race as a factor in college admissions, while 32% disapprove and 16% saying they don’t know.”
52% isn’t super impressive, but I’ll take it.
True, but +20 over the opposite position is. Pro affirmative action having only 1/3 support is a good sign.
The question is not what the poll is about; rather, it’s what are polled persons commenting on. When we ask about X, the answer is how they feel about their own projection onto X, not about X per se.
This is the thing about most politics and populism in particular. No one judges Trump or RFK Jr or Limbaugh of Hillary himself: they merely repeat the position that their team would have them say based on whose team the poll’s subject is on. Meanwhile, the actual effect of a ruling or behaviors of a person go unjudged: indeed, they are wholly unknown and disputed when explained.
So we have to take lectures on family values from men who destroyed their third marriages or learn how environmentally evil our purchases are from a guy who just flew in on a private jet and who continued to raise tobacco even after his sister died from lung cancer.
Go, a little bit of good news, as no matter how the “media” try to spin this, people are seeing through.
“Poll shows most Americans are racists.”
You call someone a thief, and they know the stole nothing, you lose your moral authority.
Racist works the same way. No one is listening to them, outside the church of the left.
So much this.
Is your wife the same race as you? If yes, then you’re racist
If no then you’re overcompensating and you’re racist
Don’t get me started if you paid off your student loans. Early, Chump, on time, Chump, a little late, Chump, never gonna pay? Right answer, get a pre-printed card and blame someone else for not caring.
Who are you so wise in the ways of spin?
I am entering the time of life when one’s focus changes from one’s kids to one’s parent(s). Just spent yet another several hours in the ER with my mother (2 weeks ago, was her sister).
Uh oh! Is she home now, or was she admitted? 😧
Home now. She’s mostly just pissy that she hurts so much, but has nothing that will actually kill her.
Wait until they have to go to a home for around the clock care. I’ve had the ghostly taste of gunpowder in my mouth for the last two years off and on. There have been times a bullet sounded good.
Dealing with a nursing home is an experience I would not wish on my worst enemy.
Sorry about your Mom btw. Hope she gets better.
You were in the nursing home or your parents were?
I offered to move in with her for a bit to help and she said, “No, I’d feel invaded.” Her two sisters who live with her are worse off than she is and they won’t move to an apartment.
It’s my Dad. He turned 85 yesterday and had to go to a home two years ago. My Mom is still at home but she is really frail.
Me not write so good. Sorry about the vagary there.
You are braver than me. Moving in with my Mom would be something Dante would love to write about.
I like your stories on here.
Oh, thank you!
I offered just for a few nights, at least for now. I suspect I will have to in the near future before they can stand to leave their 3300 ft2 home with acreage, barn, and horses.
Horses?? Who takes care of the horses??
They hire someone.
This is a big family drama and has caused loads of contention between me and the aunt who owns the 4 horses. BTW, they’re >20 years old and have rarely been ridden. Barely saddle-broke. One died, though. They’re just her pets. Anyway, of the three sisters, what this particular sister wants, this particular sister gets. They have that house and land specifically so she could have her horses. So I personally blame this sister’s selfishness for making my mom (and other aunt) live where she doesn’t want to anymore.
The deal was, when she couldn’t take care of the horses herself anymore, they’d move. She hasn’t been able to do that for 3 years. She’s the lone hold-out on moving. My mom (and other sister) would LOVE to get an apartment.
So there is some tension with regard to the living situation.
Yikes! At least my more… problematic sister only collects cats! 😳🐅🐆😺😸
Never mind I just really hate horses to begin with.
I love my two sisters, but I really hope I don’t ever have to live with them again. 😣
Ditto my three older brothers.
Same with my kids. Like J. Biden, I love ’em but a little distance is OK, too. The thing about getting old is admitting we’re getting old. We don’t want to infringe on anyone else or be dependent on anyone. I had my neighbor do some work but I’ll pay him, probably more than the bill because I want to be able to call him when it snows, etc and treat him like any other hired employee, though he is also a friend. No one should be expected to work for free.
Reminds me of my maternal grandparents. They had an apartment that they planned to move to when they got older, but they were too stubborn to leave their old house and by the time they were finally convinced to do so they were too feeble to live on their own anymore. They never used their apartment.
When you have tater twats in your lady garden.
TW: Twitter. And lady gardens.
I did not need to ever hear that.
I blame myself for morbid curiosity.
Made you look.
I showed better than usual restraint.
Twitter no workee (still) for me. Thank you, Elon.
And it doesn’t work today differently from how it didn’t work yesterday.
Either way, I’ll take it!
Potatoes will grow in the damnedest of places.
Found one growing in an abandoned floor drain, once.
Twitter doesn’t work for me, but I think that’s what I think it is. A buddy of mine’s brother is a doctor and years back he was telling us the story of one of his friends from medical school. If you went into a rural community to practice medicine for the first couple years after graduating they had some type of program where they’d knock off a certain amount of the school loans. He had a woman come in who complained of “weeds in my jojo”. When he examined her she did indeed have weeds in her jojo. There was a removal and a potato was lodged far up there and had sprouted. She had used it in place of a tampon some weeks before and it was responding to the dark and fertilizer she was giving it.
This woman was using it as a pessary for bladder prolapse.
!Bee crunches some numbers on that ridiculous proposal to
fine companies for fake reviewsextract money from Amazon.That’ll just be the end of any reviews at all then. That’s a ridiculous amount.
I just got a postcard from a product – give us an honest review on Amazon, email us a screenshot, we’ll give you $50 Amazon gift card. I had already given a 4 star review anyways. They email back saying they were hoping for 5. I
There’s still a Glibs Holiday Weekend Zoom going on, and some of the cool kids are on it..
I’m not on it and I’m the coolest as the Firstest. Obviously.
Tom Clancy had a couple of good books and then I couldn’t stand him.
Patriot Games is fantastic.
I’ll grant the book was better than the movie. And as I recall that preceded The Sum of All Fears.
Patriot Games was just his third book, after Red Storm Rising.
Sum was the sixth. I think I stopped after that one.
They did go downhill pretty fast.
I don’t think you have thought this position through.
People often associate affirmative action with efforts to end discrimination for people of color. But scholars say the greatest beneficiaries of affirmative action policies are white women, from college campuses to the American workplace.
White women today are more educated and make up a bigger slice of the workforce as a result of decades of affirmative action policies, scholars say. White women have also made inroads into corporate leadership that people of color and women of color have not.
The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action admissions policies used by Harvard College and the University of North Carolina to build diversity on their campuses. Legal observers say that decision will have huge consequences for higher education and could have significant ripple effects for corporate diversity programs.
Leftists demean black people by saying they can’t compete and now they are demeaning white women who are college “educated” even though these people are thought to generally be on their team. How peculiar.
Taps out. That is not at all what “affirmative action” is or does.
It’s not even quotas. Back in the ’60s I was tended by a black surgeon. I had no doubt he was as good or better than the white surgeons. In the 2010s the surgeon that repaired my hands was a Japanese-American, he also did perfect work. Merit beats AA every time
Yeah, in addition to not “curbing discrimination”, it’s generally not quotas either – it’s mostly just “advance the black or brown person so we can look good when busybodies come sniffing around again”.
Women “owned” businesses.
Days of fireworks have begun around here in the ‘burbs outside of Richmond.
But the state got these guys.
STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — The Stafford County Fire Marshal’s Office seized over half a million dollars in illegal fireworks this week — the largest seizure in the department’s history.
Acting on an anonymous tip, a fire marshal was dispatched to the 200 block of McCarty Road on Wednesday, June 28 and found what he described as a large amount of illegal fireworks “in plain view”, according to the office’s press release.
The marshal was able to investigate the building due to the business owners having an existing fire prevention code permit. This permit allows the marshal’s office to investigate the premises at any time.
The inspection revealed a “multitude” of illegal fireworks — the value of which is estimated to be more than $600,000.
The investigation is ongoing, two individuals determined to be involved have charges pending.
That’s an explosive display of American arrogance by these individuals. They think they live in a free country?
What made them illegal? Quantity or quality?
Also has that question.
People often associate affirmative action with efforts to end discrimination for people of color. But scholars say …
It’s preposterous hogwash, all the way down.
https://twitter.com/1thread6flags/status/1675620924572172288/photo/1
for RCD
Twitter no workee.
A pleasant afternoon given the miserable weather. Well over 90 here and ridiculous humidity. Headed into town after church and got some lunch and beers at Park Lane Tavern. Picked up some manga at a local store (hard to find many other SF/Fantasy books in stock on the shelf that I actually want to buy – easier to order most online). Treated myself to a double feature at the cinerama – the new animated spiderman flick followed by Asteroid City.
Then a drive home with a gorgeous view of the rising full moon and the occasional lightning flash to the north…still almost 85 degrees when I got home at 9:15 – just nuts.
Unless I am missing something it seems we are not getting evening links so I’ll go ahead and deposit my load:
Our military is not serious.
Coming out as a transgender female saved Maj. Rachel Jones’ life.
The U.S. Army Sustainment Command Cyber Division chief, G6 (Information Management), struggled with depression and suicidal ideation for most of her life. Today, she is living her truth and is no longer battling depression or suicidal thoughts.
The observance of Pride Month, celebrated every June, was first recognized by the Department of Defense in June 2012. It is a time when the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community come together to celebrate love and authenticity. Many LGBTQ+ people must overcome deep-rooted fear, shame and adversity in order to live as their most authentic self, though.
The road to self-acceptance was not easy for Jones. Before coming out privately to her therapist, Jones lived every day deeply depressed and suicidal.
“When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s there was a lot of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric. I don’t think many people meant to do that, but it’s something I heard as I was growing up repeatedly. So much so that I was convinced I was inherently evil for being transgender,” said Jones. “The pressure of hiding all of the time was so bad I grew up depressed and suicidal to the point that I always had a plan to end my life.”
Jones, however, feels lucky to be alive today. “Even when deployed, the greatest threat to my own safety was myself,” she said.
You are army IT and you have a mental problem. Get over yourself.
Someone did not get the memo that scotus said the issue is not a federal issue.
She added, “Consensus on the fact that let’s encourage more adoptions that are good quality adoptions, consensus on the fact that we should have contraception —that contraception should be available and consensus that no state law should put a woman in jail or give her the death penalty for having an abortion. Let’s start there and whatever 60 Senate votes come to, whether that’s 15 weeks, I absolutely would sign it.”
This is the normal Sunday night article format.
I suppose I do not usually participate on Sunday evenings.
That transgender person is not doing much to try to pass. I would be suspicious about their sincerity and would suspect that they might have identified as a woman in order to get easier fitness standards.
And you’re not allowed to notice that anymore.
The few trannies I have known all put way more effort into it. I guess the goal was to “pass”. Now the goal is demand that you celebrate their truth no matter how ridiculous.
“truth”
Ugh this topic is pissing me off, if anyone didn’t notice 🙂
Mostly because it is sucking all the air out of the room.
There are a zillion way more important “conversations” the nation needs to be having right now and gosh isn’t it convenient that so much ink is being spilled on this particular nonsense.
It could also be that my patch program ended today – actually, I ripped the last one off last night and threw it away.
Also last night I came across this link that someone posted a while ago. Damn that show was sooo good.
It’s crazy how fast things moved on this issue. Being asked to pretend someone is their professed identity when they don’t even seem to believe it themselves (otherwise they’d put in the work, IMO) is too much for me.
I can provide weepy anecdotes too but I doubt it would make the fucking Army website. I’m speechless in awe of the, well, yeah “unseriousness” on display there. It reads like the farthest-left garbage-pile media from not even five years ago and I guess that’s where our military is now.
Today, she is living her truth and is no longer battling depression or suicidal thoughts.
Are we supposed to throw it a ticker tape parade?
Pure fucking gaslighting. This is the push to make everyone think that if we don’t celebrate his womanhood that he’s going to off himself. And that could be your child, too.
Dudes who don’t make an effort are autogynephilic and pushing their fetish on the rest of the world because they’re attention whores.
I feel like the major is rubbing ours faces in BS. The army mission is to engage and destroy the enemy. I’m not sure she’d be available on my team to do that.
Pronouns do not win battles but as a POW she/he might be propaganda fodder.
So much this. And it’s not just the military. It’s every organization in America that is “not actually right-wing [and has] over time become left-wing”. They are the playground bully.
I think some Alexander said “Im not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I’m afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”
Or the other one that gets me is the “Transman” who gets pregnant. Like, whateven do you think being a “man” is, if it includes being pregnant? Short hair and pants? That really does seem to be the limit of these people’s idea of what ‘gender’ is. and it’s for those people making no effort, we’re supposed to mangle english with all the “birthing hole” and other gross nonsense.
OTA! It’s BONUS hole. Get it right!
I go to a pool party one night and y’all take the whole bottle of black pills.
*ahem*
“Pills of Color”
If that was the case, what are all the brown pills for?
Ah. I answered my own question.
Watch out where the huskies go,
Don’t you eat those yellow pills…
You didn’t know there’s a 4th hole ?
So there is someone called Ozy Franz, who is a younger member of the bay-area “rationalist” community. Maybe most famous for dating Scott Alexander. They get very upset if you don’t use their proper pronouns. They are NB, got their tits chopped off, married a cis dude (also from said SF-rat-always online) and had a baby. They also claim to be extremely upset if they are identified as a womyn, and say they’re very happy if someone clocks them as a twink-style gay dude.
I feel sorry for that kid.
Made it back, and Im safely ensconced @ Chez Tres. Numerous gate changes and a delayed flight, but I weathered the storm of holiday travel.
Now, my brain is 3 hours behind. Ill be home just long enough to re-calibrate, and its back to Cali.
Glad you made it back!
It’s good to be back- despite my week of absence, Jugsy and I started bickering immediately after I got in the car (she picked me up).
Now THAT is love.
Haha. Took the drunkie wife through the world’s longest Whataburger line coming back from a pool party tonight. That’s love too.
I took 2 of my guys (theyre from Louisiana) to In-and-Out.
Both said “why dis tak so long?”
https://i.redd.it/5odkiow93gk11.jpg
You really don’t like your guys, do you?
The
police,military, no one except yourself will protect you and your rights.Yeah well I’ve been drinking
Cali Glibs that may know the Bay Area could maybe co-sign this- when I was in safety training last week, I was talking to a guy that was a union pipefitter. He said regular wages were $76/hr.
When I later consulted with my Cali counterpart, I asked “can a guy get buy on $160K/year in San Fran?” He said, “not really”.
Even at 50% taxation, 80k should be well off
It’s Monday! Up an at ’em, peeps!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gg7HvrA0Z7I
🎶🎶
You can’t tell me what to do!
Yes, I can. I just did.
My sugar-coated marshmellow baby chickens are… nonexistant. I don’t ever buy any.
So they can’t get up and at ’em.
Good morning, Sean and U!
I have to cover some of Reliable Coworker’s daily gotta-do’s and do payroll today. My boss and (I believe) the CEO are both also off. I may be the only one working at my end of the building. I’m rebelling (a truly American tradition) by NOT wearing corporate logowear with my capri jeans.
IT dress codes tend to be more lax than regular business dress codes. I don’t think I can even force people to wear button-down collars if I wanted to fight that fight.
I’d say as long as the collars promise to behave themselves, they don’t have to be buttoned down.
I meant more along the lines of people will show up in T-shirts and the general reaction is “At least they’re dressed”
Oh, yeah – t-shirts are right out, though I confess I will wear collarless knit tops. There’s a fine distinction between a knit top (at least for a woman) and a t-shirt, but I make it.
I don’t know women’s fashion. You say “Knit Top” and my thought is “Sweater”.
Here are some I can (and, in some cases, do) legitimately wear to work with the corporate logo applied (which I usually order in a color matching the fabric.) The fabric is usually just a bit heavier than that of a t-shirt, but still a cotton or cotton-blend knit.
How is that not just a t-shirt?
Well…not crew-neck, hemmed rather than banded neckline and sleeves. Nitpicky details, but I shamelessly take full advantage of that.
I haven’t been to the off9ce on over three years, I wonder what it looks like these days. When I joined what was then a start-up, the dress code for us IT types was… nonexistent. There was a guy who would come in dressed in cargo shorts and a t-shirt, riding a scooter to get around the office. Now that we’ve hit the big time i suspect things are different.
My office dress code is nonexistent these days. I and other managers have fully abandoned any attempts at enforcement. It was business casual there when I started and since then fully casual.
I do like that I no longer have to have a work wardrobe, however I used to feel like nasa scientist in my white button down and black tie and pants back in the 90’s.
But did you have a pocket protector??
Sometimes I get motivated enough to wear a tie.
All my shirts are button-down because I find that the most comfortable to wear. I can’t stand t-shirts, especially the irritating collar.
My group is not very public facing (we deal with other IT people, not the users, not the public), and stuck in a cube farm, so no one ever sees us.
Those of us who work in the back office are similarly non-public-facing, since we don’t do transactions or loans at our location. If a member shows up for anything other than an auto title issue, we usually have to give them directions to the nearby branch. A bit more casual dress code might also be compensation to those of us whose jobs mean we CAN’T work from home.
The one thing that drives my boss crazy (though he doesn’t say anything to her) is when one of my co-workers wears flip-flops to work, and that only bugs him because of the slapping noises they make whenever she walks by.
I have to agree with the boss, that sound is really annoying. She should be more consiterate of others and find footwear that is quieter.
I took great pride in underdressing as a way of showing off that I wasn’t an office drone/bureaucrat.
I first read that as “undressing”. I guess that works, too.
Dressing down make me feel like a disgusting slob. I’m having trouble reconsiling deliberately doing so and having pride in it.
I also had a keycard to the secure 4th floor. But there would be no way of knowing that by looking at me. Being in flagrant violation of the government drone dress policy otoh…
Also, LOTS of PPE going on over my T-shirt/shorts combo.
I lost a rant to an internal server error.
It wasn’t worth reading anyway.
Am I the only one who’s office attire includes a leather belt and leather holster?
Depends on the meaning of ‘and’.
If it’s the logical AND, then maybe. I could wear an empty holster, but it would snag on my chair.
Assless chaps are one thing, but just a belt is a bit too casual, IMO.
By definition chaps do not cover the backside. They are meant to be worn over trousers to protect the pantlegs.
Good morning all.
Get out there and make “something” happen today.
🎶https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=baAfrsyeSts
Good morning, ‘loosey! I’ll see what I can do.
Mornin! That woke me up.
That’s my iPhone alarm. Scares the shit out of me.
I am glad I have a policy of not following youtube links from Glibs.
Mornin’, reprobates!
Enjoy the day off if you have one. I will be “working”, and by working mean…
Which is why Independence Day should be a two day holiday, unless it falls on a Wednesday.
So a three day holiday in that case?
Five.
I like the cut of your jib.
It’s triangular and tied between the bowsprit and the foremast, like all jibs.
Morning all — shout out to another Animal rant exposing us to the wider world…
Some day he’s going to drop a STEVE SMITH reference and the Red State editors won’t know what to do with him.
STEVE SMITH know what to do with editors!
Read their red pen remarks and revise his articles accordingly?
Is there anyone here that a) Disliked the Dune books but b) liked the Culture ones? And if so, do you have a specific diagnosis for your pathology?
I never read the Culture books because every time they were described my reaction was “I don’t think I’d care for that.”
No idea what the Culture ones are, sorry.