The Anti-Social Network
Posted on April 14th, 2011 by Tintin
ABOVE: A speculative rendering of Robin of Berkeley based on a forensic analysis
of her blog posts.
Shorter Robin of Bezerkley, A Licensed Psychotherapist, The American “Thinker”
My Five Minutes of Fame* on Facebook
- The problem with Facebook is that it made me realize that all the people who used to be my friends won’t speak to me anymore. Bah. Who needs Facebook anyway? It just starts riots among brown people in the third world and turns white people into retards.
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. We are aware of all Internet traditions.™
*As yet more evidence of Robin’s narcissistic personality disorder she sees her five completely uneventful minutes on Facebook as her “five minutes of fame.”
Robin of Bezerkey, A Licensed Psychotherapist
That’s former licensed psychotherapist. Note that the American Thinker article footer for Robin’s articles has quietly removed the “pscyhotherapist” description, as has Robin’s self-penned mini-bio (the “About Robin” page) at Robin’s blog.
I know someone kind of like Robin. Everyone he knows is a former friend.
Says Robin: “I have never had cable TV in my life.”
Says Robin 2 paragraphs later: “When I was a progressive, cable kept me blissfully ignorant of all the things my brethren were doing to corrupt America.”
Wait, what?
“When I was a progressive,” Robin writes. When was that? During TRs first or second term?
Alternate shorter Robin:
Who knew a social networking site consisted of social networking?
Shorter Robin of Berkeley circa 1995:
Real Robin:
Yeah. Elections are the problem here.
As yet more evidence of Robin’s narcissistic personality disorder she sees her five completely uneventful minutes on Facebook as her “five minutes of fame.”
If dozens of hypothetical friend requests from IRL acquaintances doesn’t count as fame, then fame is meaningless.
Weird. The problem I have with Facebook is it reminds me of all the people I don’t want to talk to any more and creates more whenever I see insipid crap on their statuses or overt Jesusy-ness. So I guess I’m one of those evil libruls out to destroy Robin of Berkley’s world?
I’m totally okay with that.
Not getting out of the boat- even though past forays into Robin of Bedlam’s rantings were entertaining glimpses into the mind of a madman(madwoman?). No more- I’ve had enough nutiness from this idiot. I would try to get a ride on the WingNutWelfare X-Press, but I just can’t let go of my principles. Or my dignity.
This time the shorter undersells the crazy:
Classic wingnut at the fringes argumentation. The only thing it lacks is an exhortation to “Wake up, sheeple!”
Marx was Roman?
So. many. mangoes.
I thought not having cable was an elitist liberal thing? Here in the Heartland, I’m actually embarrassed to tell people I don’t have a TV because it makes me feel like a pretentious twat.
The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said on Wednesday that Goldman Sachs “misled investors selling mortgage-backed investments it knew would fail” and that executives from the bank had also “misled Congress in a testimony given in 2010.”
However, no one can figure out how to charge the bankers with anything.
Classical Marxism, sheeple!
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Here in urban liberal Massachusetts (post-industrial working class edition) not having cable just means you’re poor.
Keeping the masses dumbed down and addicted is all part of the Marxist playbook.
Well, it’s like all the religionists used to say: “Marxism is the opiate of the masses.”
That’s how the quote went, right?
And then there are web sites with violent porn that would make the Marquis de Sade blush.
Strangely enough I have never seen any of these sites, so I can only assume that if they are appearing, unsought and unclicked, on her computer it is possessed by SATAN.
Then I realized to my shock and horror that the site had accessed all of my email contacts. I was aghast; had I forfeited my right to privacy the minute I signed up?
This also has never happened to me because when it asks if it can access my address book, in clear English comprehensible to any but the most moronic, I click NO.
And I saw Leslie, a close family member who, for no good reason, has recently stopped talking to my husband and me. I’ve tried to reason with her, but she remains in a huff.
“Leslie, you are an unreasonable idiot for not talking to me. Just admit you were wrong so we can be friends again.”
I would soon be deluged with offers to be friended by my friends and by my friends’ friends.
Consider yourself reassured that this will not happen.
Some days I like to connect with people; at other times, I prefer quiet and solitude.
Remember how you had to search diligently for all that porn and to click the permission box to allow FB to access your address book? Yeah.
Holy. Fucking. Shit.
The mangoes will cause dysentery, so STAY AWAY!
There is one constant in all of these failed friendships. And it ain’t Facebook.
Methinks someone skipped class the day they discussed the importance of “self awareness.”
So. many. mangoes.
I like the lady who says she uses Facebook because she has an autistic son and Facebook is also retarded. I wish that was a mocking summation, but that’s actually what she wrote.
HERE IN THE FUTURE not having cable means you stream all that shit.
Keeping the masses dumbed down and addicted is all part of the Marxist playbook.
From each according to his bandwith, to each according to his RAM.
Robin, the “psychotherapist,” says: “The book, Talk to the Hand (a hilarious take on the new media as well as the general incivility of life) says that people are becoming functionally autistic – unable to deal with human beings (eye to eye contact, making small talk on a line at the bank, empathy, etc.”
Wow. That’s super-offensive, Robin. I’m pretty sure my Aspie brother has more empathy in his little finger than you will ever have, you self-absorbed asshole.
RAMming the bandwidth.
So. many. mangoes.
More proof that the only people who use “fly-over country” are people who live there, pretending to quote others sneering at them. God kills a kitten every time you engage in self-victimization, people!
people are becoming functionally autistic – unable to deal with human beings (eye to eye contact, making small talk on a line at the bank
So Robin hates Facebook because people can talk to her there? But she hates it when strangers in line at the bank don’t want to listen to her bizarre rambling? Umm “standing near you in you public” doesn’t give you license to bother me. Accepting your Facebook friend request does.
Also too a comments section where everyone complains about the dopes who socialize on the internet? There’s a meme for that.
Oh, this is gold:
Bracing myself for when they claim capitalism itself was a Marxist plot.
I like the lady who says she uses Facebook because she has an autistic son and Facebook is also retarded.
Yeah, I saw that. She actually said “social retardation,” which is almost worse, because we know her son isn’t able to relate to people “appropriately” (apparently), but we have no idea what his cognitive abilities actually are. I feel really bad for him. Also, “solice”?
As the parent of an Aspie (a real one — not just a brat who needs to be beaten more often) I’m fairly confident my son cares more about those around him than this twatface ever has.
And he’s six.
The front side bus is the Jew of motherboard fascism.
Or, um, something …
My foray into the brave new world of social networking reminds me of an episode of the TV show, Everybody Loves Raymond. I love the series because Ray’s Italian family reminds me of my Jewish one. This isn’t surprising because the Jews and the Italians lived next door to each other in places like the Bronx.
Excellent cultural-analyst point. That must also be why the poor black families of Williamsburg, Brooklyn (before it became hip) so much resembled the families of Orthodox Jews, who live next door to them.
Look, it’s called The American Thinker. It doesn’t say anything about the quality of the thoughts.
“believe it or not God can even speak to us through Facebook.”
Yes. He tells us that our cousins have invited us to be neighbors on Farmville.
But this culture is phasing out God as surely as last year’s iPad. None of this is coincidental. Keeping the masses dumbed down and addicted is all part of the Marxist playbook. A distracted populace won’t notice that the country is going down the tubes.
Yes, I agree. God will not soon forgive the Marxist schemers of Silicon Valley, who in their diabolical, Bolshevik, non-profit organizations, foisted modern technology upon the helpless capitalist masses.
But this culture is phasing out God as surely as last year’s iPad. None of this is coincidental. Keeping the masses dumbed down and addicted is all part of the Marxist playbook. A distracted populace won’t notice that the country is going down the tubes.
What we really need is a national day of prayer or two. And some pro-life marches! School Bible-reading days! Teaching the controversy! Merry Christmas!
Top five things God is saying to me through Facebook at the moment:
You might be surprised to see He doesn’t capitalize “i”.
And I saw Leslie, a close family member who, for no good reason, has recently stopped talking to my husband and me
No reason at all, eh? Okay, “Robin” former licensed psychotherapist.
What complicated the set-up is that my television is a 1984 Sony Trinitron, which has its own separate black box
WTF? No it doesn’t, “Robin” not from the factory anyway. If there is another “black box” (please note, this is incorrect usage of the term) perhaps someone has been monitoring you all this time.
Shorn of cable, I have never had the pleasure of seeing Lawrence O’Donnell, Rachel Maddow or Ed Schultz on the big screen.
Um, “Robin”? Nor has anyone else.
And I saw Leslie, a close family member who, for no good reason, has recently stopped talking to my husband and me
I admit, I’ve unfriended people in the past for being loudly, shrilly, repeatedly and nonsensically conservative. That was before I knew you could exclude people from your minifeed, but I probably would’ve done it even if I’d known.
But you can’t do it to family members… it just isn’t done. Though apparently Robin drove someone to do just that.
I’ve unfriended people in the past for being loudly, shrilly, repeatedly and nonsensically conservative. That was before I knew you could exclude people from your minifeed
I take them off my feed. But then I look them up to see what dumb things they’re saying. That didn’t solve the problem at all.
As the parent of an Aspie (a real one — not just a brat who needs to be beaten more often) I’m fairly confident my son cares more about those around him than this twatface ever has.
My brother makes the effort to talk to neurotypical people and look them in the eye even though it’s difficult. Because he knows that it’s the way to show them that he cares, even if it’s not something that comes naturally to him.
But this culture is phasing out God as surely as last year’s iPad. None of this is coincidental. Keeping the masses dumbed down and addicted is all part of the Marxist playbook. A distracted populace won’t notice that the country is going down the tubes.
By way of reminder, Marx was an economist who foresaw a revolution based on the working class’ realization that they were being had. So that’s one thing she’s got completely backward. The other (in the above statement alone) is that it is actually religion, prescribed by the weathy for the poor, which functions to keep the masses dumbed down and ignorant by telling them they have a greater reward waiting for them in heaven, so stop whining about your current situation, loafers.
And again, TruculentandUnreliable, Robin is not a psychotherapist. She is a former psychotherapist.
rusted-out campers steer clear of Eff-book.
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I wasn’t expecting to see Susan or Leslie or any of them for that matter.
What were you expecting “Robin”? Random strangers from somewhere else? A telephone directory from which you would select “friends”? Did you not expect it after clicking “YES ACCESS MY CONTACTS”?
And yet, through the wizardry of Facebook, there they stood.
Wizardry indeed. Magic, pure and simple.
HERE IN THE FUTURE not having cable means you stream all that shit.
you have a shitmoat stream? LUCKY!
Well, that’s how I felt about my face time on Facebook; it was all too much. Don’t get me wrong; I like (some) people; I like pears. But not all the time.
Robin is not aware that she can not open FB on any given day. Or any given week. Or simply not turn on the computer. Given that she spends so much time finding violent porn sites I would think she would know how this interests thing works. Conclusion: “Robin” is not only remarkably self-unaware she is also remarkably st00pid.
FYautocorrect. Not interests, internets.
you have a shitmoat stream?
You can, too, you just need FIBER.
Yeah, that’s a big deal for The Boy as well.
Between that, his inability to correctly recognize people other than myself and The Mrs, massive clutzitude (dashing my dreams of him being a starting safety or linebacker in the NFL), his obsessions (currently transitioning from dinosaurs to outer space), and OFF THE GODDAMN CHARTS IQ, we’re … well, we’ve decided that we’re screwed.
Though I would like to know if your folks ever thought about that old line, “I now know why some animals eat their young.”
Because we do about twice a day.
😉
Oh, and
FYFBFYWP. I know HTML, goddammit, and that link should’ve worked.Lurking Canadian said,
April 14, 2011 at 16:12
“Yes, I agree. God will not soon forgive the Marxist schemers of Silicon Valley, who in their diabolical, Bolshevik, non-profit organizations, foisted modern technology upon the helpless capitalist masses.”
To restate your obvious point here–these wingtards know fuckall about anything.
Their level of awareness is locked in at the 6-year-old narcissistic stage–everything in the universe is an extrapolation of their own very limited experience. They are incapable of even imagining, much less understanding, motivations or ideas beyond their own. This is frustrating and sometimes adorable in a 6-year-old, but it’s beyond dangerous in a significant percentage of a society.
Whereas progressive adults talk about Individualism as it applies to all people and enhances the flexibility of a society, wingtards snarl about Rugged Individualism, by which they mean “fuck everybody, I’m on my own, but the rest of you had better keep toeing the line so I can have my modern shit.” A not very positive trait in society.
Despite their hot air about Individualism and Responsibility, they believe everyone is EXACTLY the same, motivated by the same ideas, desires and fears, etc., mostly negative.
So, the only thing that makes folks different, the only difference that counts to wingtards, is what TEAM they play for. Paranoid tribalism, arising from their arrested development stuck forever at the Me-Me-Me stage of motivation, is how they differentiate those in their own tribe from all the other tribes that only want to take their shit.
End of story (for the human race).
you have a shitmoat stream? LUCKY!
Chicago River. Coming soon: leaping asian carp!
From what I was gathering, incessant Facebooking was turning many minds to mush
You betcha!
Ps. Nice headline, Tintin.
his obsessions (currently transitioning from dinosaurs to outer space)
Ah yes. Does he bring them up in the middle of a conversation in a way that seems to make *perfect* sense to him, but everyone else is like, “Huh? We were talking about fruit!”?
Though I would like to know if your folks ever thought about that old line, “I now know why some animals eat their young.”
Probably. More likely about my youngest brother, though, who managed to break, like, everything.
My Aspie brother was a kid during a time when autism wasn’t particularly well-understood and he went undiagnosed until he was in his 20s. He also has a lot of anxiety, sensitivity to noise, OCD, and depression, so it was more that he was unhappy and “strange” instead of having that enthusiastic spaziness (in a nice way) that a lot of children with Asperger’s have.
I know exactly what you mean, though. He sounds completely infuriating but totally awesome.
“believe it or not God can even speak to us through Facebook.”
Yes. He tells us that our cousins have invited us to be neighbors on Farmville.
And we then reject him by turning off the Farmville notifications that The Facebook insists on putting on our homepages.
Pup Max writes: No reason at all, eh? Okay, “Robin” former licensed psychotherapist.
Thank you. Everybody clear on this? She is not a psychotherapist.
Pup Max also writes (in reply to Robin’s “What complicated the set-up is that my television is a 1984 Sony Trinitron, which has its own separate black box”): WTF? No it doesn’t, “Robin” not from the factory anyway.
Robin may have one of Sony’s early ProFeel Series Televisions, an ill-fated attempt by Sony to separate out monitor and tuner (mimicking the “component stereo system”). Yep, the tuner was in a separate little box. Yes it was black. I remember that the tuner/Monitor cable and port was a Sony proprietary design, and I think Sony provided Video and Audio jacks on the monitor (the video jack may have been a BNC style, again, don’t remember).
Robin’s a true luddite, so it’s interesting she wound up with one of these: it’s a “pro-sumer” deal that involves more cabling than she’d be comfortable with, but maybe a former husband was a vidoehead. Also I assume that Robin is not aware that she could go directly into the video/audio jacks on the monitor with her new ATSC tuner, bypassing the old Sony tuner box altogether, instead doing it the dumb way (converting ATSC to NTFC RF into the Sony Tuner box).
The dope.
Also, “solice”?
also, “weened”?
And again, TruculentandUnreliable, Robin is not a psychotherapist. She is a former psychotherapist.
I don’t actually think she ever was a psychotherapist. Hence the quote marks around “psychotherapist”.
WTF is this:
Is it the gun porn of the “I’ve been fused to this chair for almost 3 years now, shit is way more cementitious than you’d think.” set? How long before all online wingnuts are nearly half seating products?
Thank you. Everybody clear on this? She is not a psychotherapist.
This is the nicest thing anyone here has ever said about Robin.
Shortering the Robin.
This is the nicest thing anyone here has ever said about Robin.
Or psychotherapy.
Best. Description. Ever.
Second. Best. Description. Ever.
@Chris V
Robin does not seem to have had a husband – she is still bitter about Peter, a straw liberal she imagined many years ago and dated for a few months, who read, went to protests, and backed away slowly from her after she asked when they would be married cuz that’s the only reason she did the Beast with Two Knees and Two Pounds Of Silicone Rubber with him.
It would not be unusual for her to have acquired said Sony in the cheapest manner possible because of it being in the cheapest manner possible – I’m thinking storage facility auction, falling off a truck, McMegan yard sale (also a good place to by cooking stuff, I understand).
Oooh, I gotta get out of the boat for this one.
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….wow.
So Robin, the allegedly licensed alleged psychotherapist, would rather not be on Facebook because it makes her face how many people she’s driven out of her life.
k! I’m going to thank myself for still having friends and family, even though they’re sometimes difficult to talk to. So, actually, thanks Robin for unintentionally helping me appreciate who I am in my life.
oh, so many, many mangoes!
Human beings are not designed to be busy all of the time.
yes, robin…tell that to the people who literally worked from sun-up to sun-down and then some just to survive…
While the ever present wiring is altering brain cells, what’s more disturbing is the effect on society….But this culture is phasing out God as surely as last year’s iPad. None of this is coincidental. Keeping the masses dumbed down and addicted is all part of the Marxist playbook.
i blame alexander graham bell…and i did not know he was a marxist!!!
(forget about video or audio, which dial-up doesn’t do)
hmmmm, ours always did…perhaps even dial-up doesn’t like robin
We had an email fight about Obama, and I never heard from her again
c’mon! obama gets the blame even for this?!?!
Yet Leslie was happily hugging her cat, an in-my-face reminder of something that upsets me every time I think about it (thanks, Facebook!).
apparently, fb is even more of a tool than keith ellison…
And that’s when I did something that may never been done in the history of Facebook…Delete account permanently.
ZOMG!!! so the friends on my page that deleted their accounts really didn’t? good to know…
I’d rather immerse myself in ancient pursuits, such as discovering the meaning of life. keep lookin’ robin…you may be doing it wrong!
reading robin makes me
Iwant to drinkinas muchlifeas I canin this reality, not the virtual one.fixxed to reflect my true feelings…
Also, “solice”?
The winter solice is when Saint Nicholas flies down your chimney to tell you to clean your fucking house you fucking pig; the summer solice is when David Hasselhoff returns in “Baywatch: The Vampire Lifeguards.”
also, too, i hate april! tuesday we had sunshine and 71 degrees…it is snowing now, with accumulation possible…wtf?
Fuck, I went wading…
No you didn’t, Miss I-ain’t-never-had-no-technologicalness-nope-not-me. Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit! What the fuck are you even trying to say? “I quickly re-established my boundaries, unlike you slackers addicted to Zuckerbook, ha ha ha.”
Near as I can tell, and I’m no IT geek, but reasonably competent, deleting a Fbook account takes several very specific steps, its a goddamn spiderweb, ain’t no wondrous button. But, and I confess I am on the stupoid thing, there are controls, you know, like NOT ACCEPTing the friends in the first damn place. Christ, for someone tech savvy enough to apparently hook a D/A converter to a “black box” on a TV built to last, read about the privacy controls, you twat.
Must. Control. Scanner. Mind. Powers.
Robin, the allegedly licensed alleged psychotherapist
How many times do I have to say it: IT CALLS THE ROBIN “FORMER LICENSED PSYCHOTHERAPIST” OR ELSE IT GETS THE HOSE!
Also, Robin writes: I do this purposely; growing up with parents who loved their liquor, I could easily get hooked like many others.
Nice gratuitous cheap shot at the folks, Honey. [sigh] I presume they’re on Robin’s born-again shitlist as well, if not already dead.
Robin’s born-again shitlist
this made me laff…
So purely on speculation I’d guess Robin’s “black box” that goes with her Trinitron is the cable box that’s required these days to watch digital cable with her old analog TeeVee. They’re pervasive these days.
Occam’s razor says this is the fancy-pants black box to which she refers.
Digital-to-analog conversion sounds suspiciously left-wing.
Never knew about that particular abortion Sony made, CV. To be accurate I should say I don’t recall ever knowing about … It was the early 80s after all, there is much I do not remember from that time. Say, does anybody know how it happened that I went out partying in Austin TX and woke up the next evening in Switzerlamd?
Also, NTSC. The mnemonic is “never twice the same color.” as long as I’m at it, PAL was for me “purely arbitrary lines” but for my European associates it was “pictures at last.”. The other interesting system was the French SECAM, “system essentially contrary to the American method.”
deleting a Fbook account takes several very specific steps, its a goddamn spiderweb, ain’t no wondrous button.
AFAIK, there’s no actual way to *delete* the account–you can suspend it, but not delete it. I suspended mine a few (hell, six!) months ago and couldn’t figure out how to delete it permanently. It’s possible that I’m a dumbass, but I doubt I’m dumber than Robin.
shit is way more cementitious than you’d think.
lawnguylander, I am a bit surprised N__B hasn’t chided you for the use of the term “cementitious” yet.
but I doubt I’m dumber than Robin.
i doubt that is even possible…
AFAIK, there’s no actual way to *delete* the account–you can suspend it, but not delete it.
Allsiknowis I signed up some years ago when you had to have an email address affiliated with certain colleges to join* and canceled it almost immediately. This was maybe 2004, possibly ’05. Then in summer 2009 I went to sign up again and found my old account to still be extant in a “suspended” status. It was not visible to anyone except me but it did still have my picture and “favorites.”
*Totally not trying to signal here; it took a really long time for my shitty school to make it on.
Occam’s razor says
You may need Occam’s machete or even Occam’s bush-hog to get through the thicket of fantasy around Robin.
lawnguylander, I am a bit surprised N__B hasn’t chided you for the use of the term “cementitious” yet.
he is still agast at my liquor-fueled early morning grammar and tag fails…
agast
apparently i am still at it…
I got an email saying “join me on Facebook to see my family photos.” Of course it was from Facebook via her email address book. But it’s a strange notion. We can make photos available on the net without a registration process. And to get this particular email from a cousin I barely know leaves a mildly sour taste that says more about Facebook than the cousin. Let’s just communicate, or not. Then there’s Linked In. People keep sending me these invites that seem utterly pointless. If we are linked professionally in some substantial way, what would we need Linked In for? And if we aren’t, what would it do for us that we couldn’t already do, easily, if we really cared to?
lawnguylander, I am a bit surprised N__B hasn’t chided you for the use of the term “cementitious” yet.
Why? That may be correct usage, depending on his diet.
my liquor-fueled early morning
I am interested.
I am interested.
as were my dogs who very rudely licked me awake after i fell asleep on the sofa…and no that is not a vanythingr!!! teh hubby comes home tonight, thus ending my 8 day bacchanalia…
Oh. I thought you just started drinking really early, bbkf.
It made me feel less conspicuous.
Or less cementitious, depending on how N__B is electing to define it today.
I am interested.
Got a hankerin’ for pickles?
Oh. I thought you just started drinking really early, bbkf.
no, not today…how about next week? on wednesday? it’s going to be a shitty day…many meetings plus board of directors meeting wherein i will have my yearly performance evaluation…
Worse, Pup Max, there’s variants of all of those, resulting in a crazy quilt of countries with incompatible broadcasting and receiving systems. Thanks for the typo catch.
In all fairness to Sony, what looked at the time like a way to make consumers buy more stuff turned out to be pretty much how we’re doing it now– Separate Tuner box (satellite, cable, rabbit-ear ghetto, etc), Video Display Device (CRT, LCD, Plasma, 3D (!) ), Audio Amp and Decode System, and Speakers (1,2,3,4,5, or more).
So, 25 years too early, although– typically– Sony doomed it from the start by insisting on a proprietary port design, the fuckers.
COMPLETELY and UTTERLY off topic, but is this the world’s worst drag queen? (Plz forgive lack of linky-smarts…)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/14/966876/-NV-Sen:-Rep-Shelley-Berkley-(D)-is-in
Scary.
Not her fault. Somebody needs to be jailed for crimes against Photoshop.
COMPLETELY and UTTERLY off topic, but is this the world’s worst drag queen?
she is fully made up and her hair is freshly coiffed…why is she wearing her housecoat?
Not her fault
I, too, am willing to cut her some slack. She’s from Nevada.
no, not today…how about next week? on wednesday?
I’ll be in Nawlins. I believe drinking in the morning is required.
From way upthread:
This.
I live in the same town I’ve lived in since high school, yet am only in touch with a few of those folks. And those folks are people I still have something in common with. You know, like I actually see them while doing the shared activities we both enjoy, that kind of thing. Why the fuck would I want to hear from all the people I couldn’t give a shit about looking up over the last decades?
Of course my wife’s on there, so I still get to hear about all the conservative/crazy-religious-nut ex-friends and relatives anyway. Lucky me.
I will only ditch cable when I can get reliable online coverage of Formula 1 races without having to personally suck off Bernie Ecclestone. Reminder: F1 China this weekend! DVR is already setup.
earlier this morning, and don’t ask me why, i was here and the resemblence of those critters and shelley b is startling…
Shelley = Mars Attacks
I’ll be in Nawlins. I believe drinking in the morning is required.
lucky s.o.z…may i take this opportunity to mention again that it is SNOWING here?
And yet, through the wizardry of Facebook, there they stood.
Wizardry indeed. Magic, pure and simple.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic to the truly fuckin’ moronic.
I’ll be in Nawlins. I believe drinking in the morning is required.
Not really, more like drinking until morning.
Gurlfriennnnnd, you gots ta get you some gowns!
” the resemblence of those critters and shelley b is startling…”
They are MUCH better attired than that gurl Shelly.
I’ll be in Nawlins. I believe drinking in the morning is required.
Not really, more like drinking until morning.
well, you know what they say…you can’t say you’ve been drinking all day if you don’t start in the morning!
lucky s.o.z…may i take this opportunity to mention again that it is SNOWING here?
hmpf. I live in Wisconsin. The only reason it’s not snowing here right now is because Scott Walker’s cronies haven’t yet figured out a way to steal a buck or two from the State for it.
Not really, more like drinking until morning.
I guess it depends on what time you
wake upcome to.Matt, any particularly good things to do/see/eat while we are there?
<i.hmpf. I live in Wisconsin. The only reason it’s not snowing here right now is because Scott Walker’s cronies haven’t yet figured out a way to steal a buck or two from the State for it.
depending on where you live in wi, you may be getting some regardless…can i come to nawlins with you? i am going to kill someone if this mf’ng winter doesn’t end!!!
Matt, any particularly good things to do/see/eat while we are there?
muffelatas!!! we bought ours at someplace that used to be a slave auction…but i have no idea where it was or what it was called…it may or may not have been near jax brewery…but matt has the lowdown on the muffies…
Converting the digits.
Twilight Zone File: I just started using StumbleUpon … & the last Stumble before I came here was this one.
SKYNET IS SELF-AWARE.
SKYNET IS SELF-AWARE.
That’s funny, because I had it figured as a Repub.
Getting the muffie lowdown.
Says Robin 2 paragraphs later: “When I was a progressive, cable kept me blissfully ignorant of all the things my brethren were doing to corrupt America.”
It means she was “getting some” at the time. Now, even her husband has “de-friended” her.
Well nobody’s reading this anymore so now’s the perfect time to post…
heh, whale…you are busted…no one has ever written an ode to my brain before…i now feel all warm and squishy everywhere…
By all accounts I am wired.
Oh, she’s wired, alright!
He sounds completely infuriating but totally awesome.
I love the dinosaur song video that MarkD posted of the little guy. He is totally awesome.
<i.I love the dinosaur song video that MarkD posted of the little guy. He is totally awesome.
i forgot all about that…t’was indeed awesome…
The unclosed starting <i> tag will heretofore be referred to as “the bbkf tag” 🙂
And I fuck that <i> up. I suck.
The unclosed starting <i> tag will heretofore be referred to as “the bbkf tag” 🙂
i am indeed on a roll this week, aren’t i? i am still blaming the fake nails…two have popped off…waiting patiently for the rest to go…
And I fuck that up. I suck.
i did not even notice that…and now i find it quite amusing…
i now feel all warm and squishy everywhere…
I! W? N?
Matt, any particularly good things to do/see/eat while we are there?
Yes, indeed, get you a muffaletta. I’m not a huge fan of them – too much olive and salami for me – but they must be experienced. Central Grocery on Decatur is the place to go to them.
And here’s the thing about New Orleans. No matter what you plan or what I’ll suggest, you’ll not have enough time to do everything and you’ll find more stuff you want to do. You could spend a week in just the Quarter and still not see/do/eat everything. Also, just about every restaurant is good. Some are better than others, of course, and some are friggin’ awesome, but you’ll be hard pressed to find a place where the food just sucks. The only one I’ve found is a Tex-Mex place near the French Market, but I won’t name the name. I am, granted, particular about my Mexican food.
Anyhow, in no particular order:
Go to Preservation Hall and see the jazz band.
Verti Mart’s back open, finally, and it’s awesome. Great sandwiches, get you an All That Jazz.
If you like Italian, this is a town full of good restaurants. My personal favorite is Mona Lisa on Royal. Right next door is an awesome West African place called Bennachin.
The aforementioned French Market. It’s basically a big flea market and there’s always good food and some neat stuff.
It’s pretty cheesy, but check out the Voodoo Museum on Dumaine and tell John T. I said howdy.
Get your fortune told or your cards read by one of the psychics in Jackson Square. Why not?
If you can get out too it, R&O’s Pizza Place out in Metairie has the best roast beef po’boys in the city. Seriously, worth the cab ride.
There’s a real good Cajun band called T’Canaille that plays one of the Tropical Isle places on Bourbon, and there’s a good zydeco band that plays at the Krazy Korner on right next door to Preservation Hall.
Take the St. Charles street car just to see the cool old houses. On the way back, stop at the Avenue Pub and drink some of the great beers they got.
Go by the Old Coffee Pot on St. Peter one morning for breakfast and ask Ms. Shirley to sing “Do Right Man” for you.
Check out the Marigny to the east of the Quarter. Lots of cool architecture, funky little shops and restaurants. Frenchman’s Street has a solid handful of blues and jazz clubs. Plus, there’s a joint called Adolfo’s that’s got some seriously good eats.
Magazine Street has some nifty shops and restaurants, particularly past the 1200 block.
Right now, one of the local organizations is hold free concerts in Lafayette Square in the CBD. Here’s a link to who all’s playing. It’s very well done.
One word of what NOT to do. Don’t drink on Bourbon. Everything on Bourbon is incredibly expensive. There’s loads of cool neighborhood bars in the Quarter where you can get a cooling beverage and not have to pay six bucks for a Bud Light. I suggest Fahey’s on Burgundy or the Chart Room on Charters.
That’s all I can think of off the top of my head. Right now’s a pretty good time to visit, actually, by the way. The weather’s fantastic and we’re between French Quarter Fest and JazzFest, so the assshole tourist quotient’s fairly low.
Have fun. Tip well.
fyi…i heard over the intercom that we are in a ‘code black watch drill’…i do not know what that is…or what i am supposed to do should an actual code black watch occur…campus safety communications leave a lot to be desired here…
Code black watch obviously means there will soon be bagpipes.
Here at the hospital Code Black is for a missing infant.
Cafe du Monde? Beignets?
Matt T is always right about NOLA, listen to him. I like muffalettas andJazzfest though. If you’re in a convention hotel you might not even make it as far as Verti Mart, let alone out to Metairie (or over the line to Jefferson Seafood) for po’boys, not to worry, like he says there are lots of great places to eat and you should try some of the classics without worrying about the latest hip thing. Places like Galatoire’s are still there because they do something worth experiencing and seemingly touristy places in the Quarter mostly turn out remarkable chow.
Our NOLA game: keeping track of how many times you hear the phrase: “Ain’t there no more.” It’ll never stop hurting.
Code Black Watch?
Obama did just recently announce his campaign for reelection…
And I saw Leslie, a close family member who, for no good reason, has recently stopped talking to my husband and me. I’ve tried to reason with her, but she remains in a huff.
So Leslie, who has chosen to stop talking to Robin, continues to be pestered by Robin’s attempts “to reason with her.” And Robin wonders why she’s “in a huff”?
I’ll be in Nawlins. I believe drinking in the morning is required.
A round of Pimm’s cups here, please!
Fun stuff over at Althouse. I assume you all saw the story about the lady who killed herself and her three kids by driving her minivan into the Hudson River? Well, a fourth kid got out and said his mother said, “I made a mistake” as the car was sinking. Ann’s got a link to a New Yorker story about bridge-jump survivors, 100% of whom said they regretted the leap as soon as they’d made it. Potentially interesting material, no?
But what are Ann’s commenters concerned with? Whether the surviving boy’s father is more disappointed that (a) he’s still got one mouth to feed, or (b) he’s lost three welfare checks. You know, ‘cuz he’s black.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic to the truly fuckin’ moronic.
What Arthur C. Clarke said in private.
mark f, that is beyond disgusting. What must it be like to have a brain that works that way?
markf
You GOTTA be kidding. Please.
I wish I was! The Post article doesn’t even mention anything about welfare, and being the Post you know it would if such information was known.
Hey S. cerevisia, if you’re still around: First “Brewery Tour” of the season starts today at 3:00 at Brew Station on the corner of Monroe and 23rd. Four free tasters, $3 pints of the selected brewery’s beer. Today is Calapooia brewing out of Albany (not my favorite brewery, but I’ll still be there). I think next week is Ninkasi… Their normal happy hour starts at 4:00 with $3.25 pints of anything they have (12 taps).
OMFG…it only took 16 comments in the outhouse for ‘traditionalguy’ to post this:
zrm…where the fuck are you…it is time to start drinking!!!
A round of Pimm’s cups here, please!
I have good memories of the Napoleon House, doubtless due to who took me there rather than any intrinsic qualities of the place, atmospheric though it may be, but, good, gracious, god, 7-up in a Pimm’s Cup? Pass me the fainting couch.
And the prize for comma use.
Sorry, next week is Laurelwood from Portland. Here’s the full schedule (PDF)
We had an email fight about Obama, and I never heard from her again
I think this says all that needs to be said about Robin’s e-mail.
I haven’t been to NOLA in over a decade, but Matt T.’s recommendations are really tempting.
Oregon Beer Snob said,
It’s one of the few times I don’t grate with yeasty bitterness thinking about the beery pleasures of the City of Roses. I’m filling kegs with 40L of a London ESB and it’s full of ye olde English excellence. Has that great tax-free taste, natural carbonation, delicate dry hopping and there’s nobody within a mile of me to share it with.
“Kegging the bitter”
“That is the same reaction that is coming from the Obama voters who listened to his seductive offer of hope and change. ”
What exactly is he referring to?
Hogging the keg.
…it is time to start drinking!!!
Okay then. Sure as hell not getting out of the boat.
Isn’t that the best? I dig traditional English beers. I have two 5-gallon kegs of my homebrewed dry stout on tap at home right now, one English, one American, both yummers. Making a Black IPA aka Cascadian Dark Ale on Sunday. I’ll still be heading across the street for the free tasters 🙂
What exactly is he referring to?
the ‘oh shit, i made a mistake’ factor that is claimed to happen directly after jumping off a bridge…
Whether the surviving boy’s father is more disappointed that (a) he’s still got one mouth to feed, or (b) he’s lost three welfare checks. You know, ‘cuz he’s black.
Jesus.
Also, those people are total assholes about suicidal people, but that’s not a surprise.
Just the other day I was out in NE, a rare situation, so I stopped in at Laurelwood Public House. The grub is just okay. Yes, the brews are pretty damn good. Bridgeport, where I go more often, has better grub but I think the beer selection is better at Laurelwood.
so the assshole tourist quotient’s fairly low.
At least until the Zombies hit town.
Have fun. Tip well.
O we do. We’re liberals.
Thanks for the tips Matt.
Also PENIS!
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2011/04/senate-approved_birther_bill_c.php
“the ‘oh shit, i made a mistake’ factor that is claimed to happen directly after jumping off a bridge…”
Oh, for fuck’s sake.
Now let’s see if whether they help themselves from repeating their suicide in 2012. It will take a straight talking Trump or a Palin to do an intervention rescue of us from the Obama/Media cult we are now living through.
Shorter Traditionalguy: The Obamabots are killing themselves!!!
zrm…where the fuck are you…it is time to start drinking!!!
I was at a useless meeting. Fucke them, I am billing it at my top rate, just for sheer annoyance.
But I am ON IT. I am coloring this afternoon.
“Thanks for the tips Matt.”
Wait. Is zombie waiting tables now? Or have have you been dancing——EXOTICALLY?!!
the ‘oh shit, i made a mistake’ factor that is claimed to happen directly after jumping off a bridge…
I find myself wondering how they managed to interview the successful jumpers.
Is zombie waiting tables now? Or have have you been dancing——EXOTICALLY?!!
Apparently you haven’t been following the thrill ride that the Masters of The Universe have made of my -ha hah – “Profession”.
They were quick interviews.
Hoaxing the Nation
Trig’s got two mommys.
They were quick interviews.
OK, I ZOLed.
Woo-hoo! I broughted lulz!
It occurs to me that the outhousers would have a clearer ‘regret’ analogy if they went with abortion issues. Maybe not a good one, but a clearer one.
give them time, hunchy.
“CachorroQuente: Until the middle 60s suicide was illegal in Britain and adultery was equally illegal in many jurisdictions. All of that ended, of course, when the smart guys like you determined that what you wanted to do was a lot more important than what society wanted you to do. And thus we find ourselves here. The people who held these beliefs down the centuries were, in Hemingway’s perfect phrase, a way you will never be.”
I just…
can I just…
damn, that’s fucking dumb.
Hope that guy isn’t a libertarian.
Hope that guy isn’t a libertarian.
Err:
“CachorroQuente said…
One final comment on this disgusting topic: Don’t you find it ironic to quote Hemingway, who left his lips– the only identifiable part of his face remaining–around the barrel of a shotgun, in this discussion?”
“CachorroQuente: No, the Hemingway quote is apt whether he murdered himself or not. Hypocrisy is only the worst crime to those who have no beliefs.”
Wuh huh? Hemingway’s all, “Keep my name out of your mouth, you stupid fuck.”
Hypocrisy is only the worst crime to those who have no beliefs.”
Sweet fuck, man, English, do you SPEAK IT!?!?!
Well, you know, Virginia Woolf once said that you need a room of your own when you’re going to the lighthouse in Orlando, so maybe you shouldn’t fill your pockets with stones and walk into a river.
Or something like that.
“I think that a healthy society must hold to the idea that life has intrinsic value. I would argue that that idea is fundamental to liberty and individual rights.”
I knew it. So he’s saying this AND he’s saying this: ” of that ended, of course, when the smart guys like you determined that what you wanted to do was a lot more important than what society wanted you to do.”?
OBS, I would have to cut class and then my classmates would catch me there at 4:00 – could be awkward. Are these only on Thursdays?
Anyway, gotta go for now.
Yes. Every Thursday until July 7th though, so you’ll be able to make it when the term’s over…
Or…wait. Was that Sylvia Plath when she was cleaning out the oven and talking about The Little Mermaid and buying new shoes?
Sweet fuck, man, English, do you SPEAK IT!?!?!
You’re just jealous because he’s clearly smarter than you. I mean, he quoted the title of a Hemingway story (incorrectly) in a context that made absolutely no sense! How can we plebes even begin to expect to keep up?
repeating their suicide
Ur doin it rong
(unless there’s zombification, of course.)
Gotta love Gov. Schweitzer.
http://www.ktvq.com/news/governor-schweitzer-vetos-bills-in-branding-event-/#
http://www.ktvq.com/player/?video_id=5872
I knew it. So he’s saying this AND he’s saying this: ” of that ended, of course, when the smart guys like you determined that what you wanted to do was a lot more important than what society wanted you to do.”?
okay, good…i thought it was just me that couldn’t follow…
Should I make a joke about that Bill Murray guy who was friends with Benecio del Toro, or am I just overdoing it at this point?
Or…wait. Was that Sylvia Plath when she was cleaning out the oven and talking about The Little Mermaid and buying new shoes?
and this made me laff hard…
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
–Edgar Allan Poe
QE RAVEN D biatches!!!!!!!!!!!
Also.
Until the middle 60s suicide was illegal in Britain
And attempted suicide was a capital offense. There are accounts of the problems encountered when hanging someone whose throat had been stitched up after a suicide attempt. If the hangman dropped him too far, the head would come off (with terminal effect but aesthetically unsatisfying for the audience); if not dropped far enough to break the neck, the stitches ripped open and the executee was able to breath through his gash.
Eventually people decided that these executions did not have the desired effect of upholding the dignity of life.
Should I make a joke about that Bill Murray guy who was friends with Benecio del Toro, or am I just overdoing it at this point?
please do! i’m glad you and vs have decided to show up today…
Yet Leslie was happily hugging her cat,
If only there was some widely-understood S,N! convention which I could use to pervert the meaning of that phrase.
Hypocrisy is only the worst crime to those who have no beliefs.
I seem to recall Jesus didn’t think too well of it.
bbkf, did y’all ever decide on a band name?
please do! i’m glad you and vs have decided to show up today…
Thanks!
Well, that was pretty much the joke…
Eventually people decided that these executions did not have the desired effect of upholding the dignity of life.
well, I ZOLed.
I knew it. So he’s saying this AND he’s saying this: ” of that ended, of course, when the smart guys like you determined that what you wanted to do was a lot more important than what society wanted you to do.”?
Doing what society wants you to do instead of what you want to do is the fundamentalest thing to liberty and individual rights.
i’m glad you and vs have decided to show up today…
Yeah, T&U left work early…
Yeah, T&U left work early…
Still here. Along with my bff.
”
If only there was some widely-understood S,N! convention which I could use to pervert the meaning of that phrase.”
I, for one, would like to know how hugging a….cat…would work.
bbkf, did y’all ever decide on a band name?
not yet…it is still being mulled…
Thanks!
Well, that was pretty much the joke…
oh…i see what you did there…
You know who else committed suicide, right?
Still here. Along with my bff.
what?!?!? do you realize there is only 15 days left until the wedding?!?! and i’m sure certain preparations must be made before then for optimal state-side wedding coverage viewing…
hugging the cat…
quick question:
do any of y’all feel that “all your money” should go to washington d.c.?
Still here. Along with my bff.
what?!?!? do you realize there is only 15 days left until the wedding?!?!
Yes, yes I do. Unfortunately.
It almost makes me want to quote David Foster Wallace.
T&U, did your BFF buy that cheap engagement ring knock-off?
my blood pressure is rising steadily…talk show host is proclaiming that paul ryan=america and obama does not=america…and furthermore, ryan is trying to save america…cannot wait to get my ipad back so i do not have to listen to the radio…
T&U, did your BFF buy that cheap engagement ring knock-off?
if she did, i’m hoping t&u reciprocated with the william and kate sick bag…!
T&U, did your BFF buy that cheap engagement ring knock-off?
If she did, I haven’t noticed. Then again, she wears so much ugly jewelry that it’d probably be hard to.
I did see her wearing a HUGE fake gold and cubic zirconium ring that looked like an engagement ring on her left ring finger yesterday. I…ummmm…
What are yoipu watching, bbkf? I just heard some fucknut describe Trump as charming on Hardgonad.
iPad
also, “weened”?
Robin’s column provides the first authenticated case of underweening ambition.
What are yoipu watching, bbkf? I just heard some fucknut describe Trump as charming on Hardgonad.
listening to local radio station…and ewwwww! charming? really?!? i’m still re-living the fond memory of hearing jon stewart call him a fuckwad the other night…
Major lols
It almost makes me want to quote David Foster Wallace.
Insert amusingly distorted DFW quote about suicide here.
LOL! That was good stuff! *savors*
Until the middle 60s suicide was illegal in Britain
Astonishingly, Althouse’s commenter is incorrect: the ‘crime’ of suicide was abrogated in 1961.
many lols indeed…i put it on my facebook page…that will really whiz my mother off…and her mexican boyfriends…well, maybe not them…
In light of Scharlott’s evidence that Palin staged a hoax
I don’t think he’s saying she staged a hoax, he’s just wondering why the media gave her a pass on it, given the uncertainties. The “evidence” he’s talking about are the inconsistency in her story that journalists should have questioned.
OK, well, if you don’t want a Pimm’s cup, then let’s have a Sazerac.
No. Just no. http://mobile.twitter.com/NAMBLAorg/status/58398929385041920
I did not see that.
Per Pupmax,
Ummm, damn. Is that real? Cuz as much as I detest the miniature Cheesusfreakin lesbian wannabe, that is deeply, deeply messed up.
I…I just…ummm..
Damn. Really?
I did not see that.
I’ll go ya one better and under no fucking circumstances click that link.
OK, I’m cool with a Sazerac. Then see what’s up at dba, slink by Donna’s to see whether there’s anything happening and then close down the R Bar.
if it’s gots booze, zombies are happy, for the most part.
Just don’t give me a Ginger Brandy, extra Sharp, if you want to keep your melon intact.
“do any of y’all feel that ‘all your money’ should go to washington d.c.?”
Well, that depends. Can I get back more than I sent?
I joke, but really, if doing so was a sweet deal on goods and services, I’d be a fool to say no.
Alphonso mango takes a hit
Zombee news.
Co-operative Funeralcare ?
Oh, cue Monty Python.
How to turn shit into shinola
[Actual headline not from the Onion.]
http://conservatives4palin.com/2011/04/cnn-poll-shows-that-governor-palin-probably-leads-if-you-take-huckabee-trump-and-bachmann-out-of-the-poll.html
Greatest speech ever?
Jonny’s in the basement mixing up the medicine. Joseph Crowley is in the congress thinking ’bout the government.
http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/04/congressperson_joseph_crowley.php
How to turn shit into shinola
she’s too great to be president, after all.
I, for one, would like to know how hugging a….cat…would work.
First, declaw.
OMG, vaginas have claws? No wonder they seem to scare some people
NAMBLA’s on twitter? Wait. NAMBLA’s still around? Yikes.
Yeesh. Claws, teeth, soon they’ll have lasers.
Wait. You mean they’re not supposed to have lasers? Next you’ll be telling me they shouldn’t have barbed wire.
PENIS
Barbed wire.
They might as well have.
snicker
So remember 40=72.
HAHAHAHA
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2011-04-13-easter-crucifixion-resurrection.htm
Next you’ll be telling me they shouldn’t have barbed wire.
Not if you wax properly.
The barbed wire is less of an issue for me than the mustard gas and artillery fire.
Trench warfare?
Here you go…
Weening the juice.
“The Gospel writers didn’t walk around with sundials on their wrists the way modern scholars walk around with wristwatches,” he said. “They were not dealing with the precision that we do.”
Say fucking WHAT? They built the GREAT FUCKING PYRAMID you dumbass! Good lord that thing is laid out so precisely we would have to spend trillions to get something as perfect. What a tool.
Not the Gospel writers per se, but I hope y’all get my drift.
Also, having a sundial on your wrist wouldn’t actually help you tell the time, since sundials have to be fixed in place to work.
I could be generous and assume the writer knew this and was just using the sundial as a metaphorical wristwatch, but I’m not feeling generous tonight, so I’ll assume dumbassery at work.
The reviews are in.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110414/REVIEWS/110419990
“The dialogue seems to have been ripped throbbing with passion from the pages of Investors’ Business Daily. Much of the excitement centers on the tensile strength of steel.”
“So OK. Let’s say you know the novel, you agree with Ayn Rand, you’re an objectivist or a libertarian, and you’ve been waiting eagerly for this movie. Man, are you going to get a letdown. It’s not enough that a movie agree with you, in however an incoherent and murky fashion. It would help if it were like, you know, entertaining?”
But, wait, didn’t George Will just get done telling us how trains are all collectivist and stuff?
I iz confoozed.
Rarely, perhaps never, has television news covered the laying of new railroad track with the breathless urgency…
Great read!
and thanks Mr. Ebert. 🙂
Part 2 will go straight to DVD and part 3, a single, brief run on David Koch’s laptop.
They already did a good adaptation of Ayn Rand: Mad Men. I mean, I like the fucking show, even the scenes that don’t have Christina Hendricks in them.
Oh, the ones w/ January Jones?
Atlas Shrugged.
hospital codes
ED overhead intercom codes where I used to work were ‘Category 1’ – ‘Category 6’. 1 being arrival of an acute patient, 6 being arrival of a stable patient.
‘Category 7’ was ‘whoever ordered a pizza, it has arrived’.
OMG, vaginas have claws? No wonder they seem to scare some people
Like return of the Jedi
ED overhead intercom codes where I used to work were ‘Category 1? – ‘Category 6?. 1 being arrival of an acute patient, 6 being arrival of a stable patient.
“I have to tell you, sir: your wife has acute angina.”
“She sure do, doc.”
To go back to suicide laws, I believe it was deemed a sin by the Catholic Church, and made illegal under civil law during the Middle Ages when a person’s debts were forgiven after his death. Laws and religious prohibitions had nothing to do with any “intrinsic value” of life, but instead tried to ensure that the nobles got their money and could continue oppressing the vast majority of the population.
The Bible: Not Intended as a Statement of Fact
“The Gospel writers didn’t walk around with sundials on their wrists the way modern scholars walk around with wristwatches,” he said. “They were not dealing with the precision that we do.”
They did know what day and night were, though, and how to count to three.
The Bible: Not Intended as a Statement of Fact
More what ye’d call guidelines than actual rules, also too.
They did know what day and night were, though, and how to count to
threepi.Fiqqst for mathy goodness.
Is this THe Donalde who gets mentioned round these parts?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704662604576256782014528702.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Jonah Goldberg was too busy this week to write 400 words about how wacky crazy Joe Biden is and how that reminds him of this one time on The Simpsons.
FTFY
Is this THe Donalde who gets mentioned round these parts?
No, although Luskin is a special kind of idiot himself. He used to write a column at NRO that attempted to argue with Krugman. DeLong and other people who know what numbers mean and how they relate to each other used to rip him to shreds almost daily. Luskin’s column, by the way, was called “The Conspiracy to Keep You Poor and Stupid.” Self-aware he is not.
The Donalde is Donald Douglas, pro-victory associate professor of political science who doesn’t know what “PhD” stands for and author of American Power.
thanks Mark, I’m sure it would have taken me all of 2min to find that out but I’m lazy. I blame obammy
I’m glad you asked. I wasn’t sure where the “The Donalde” thing came from. I had to Google his blog and discovered his own employer misspells his name on their website. As The Donalde might say, “BWAHAHAHAHA.”
I just want to let you know that I have officially changed the “Interest! Website? Newsletter?” meme. It is now “Website? Interest! Newsletter?”. I expect you all to follow the new format from now on and that way we all
W? I! N?
Also, having a sundial on your wrist wouldn’t actually help you tell the time, since sundials have to be fixed in place to work.
Maybe they did in fact have sundials on their wrists, and the resulting inaccuracy is what caused the whole 40=72 kerfuffle.
He also can’t remember a more depressing week in Washington.
The sinking of New Orleans, a huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a financial collapse and a plane flying into the Pentagon just do not rate when budget figures are not to one’s liking.
Also, having a sundial on your wrist wouldn’t actually help you tell the time, since sundials have to be fixed in place to work.
I know some people who appear to be fixed in place, so this would not be a problem for them.
Coming from Jonah, these numbers are probably not accurate. However, coming from the Congress, the general idea is probably right. But that should be no surprise to Jonah or anybody else. The Republicans have been fussing for decades about cutting spending. But when you translate that from politics to reality it just means they want desperately to cut spending on programs that are helpful to the general population so they can spend that and more on corporate welfare and unnescessary wars and such.
It almost makes me wonder where Jonah found the time for all those mixed metaphors. “Collapsing under the weight of controls”? Are those the controls with the extra-big buttons, for the fat-fingered and poor-sighted? Because even those aren’t very heavy.
“Collapsing under the weight of controls”? Are those the controls with the extra-big buttons, for the fat-fingered and poor-sighted? Because even those aren’t very heavy.
I have a mental image – which I feel compelled to share with you all – of Jonah reading “Foreplay For Dummies” and feeling overwhelmed with all the various controls he has to push, and turn, and do various icky things to.
I would love to give fourplay a try, but I’ve never even been in a threesome yet.
I would love to give fourplay a try, but I’ve never even been in a threesome yet.
Obligatory XKCD reference.
The Big Hollywood review of Atlas Shrugged: Part I is in! The movie’s “timing could not be better”; it “upholds her objectivist worldview and ought to stoke the debate”; it’s “a winner for holding firm to Randian philosophy” and “it also brazenly and refreshingly brings a political perspective”; “it is a movie about big ideas, whose subject matter stands alone” and “catalyst for critical thinking.”
I know what you’re thinking: how’s the acting? Does the plot move? Does the director have a commanding master of mise-en-scene? In other words, is it a good movie?Well, fair filmgoers, I wouldn’t want to spoil that for you. Read the book and find out!
The New York Post is always reliable.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/atlas_shrugged_part_i/
The New York Post is always reliable.
Me gustan los mangos!
I like this one better, though:
I’m sorry: you expect a self-respecting Galtian to forego an opportunity for profit, just for the happiness of the masses e.g. the audience? Or just for the memory of a dead woman?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
More Jonah mangoes:
Yeah. And the median household — household! — income in America is $44K. And the top 1% own as much as the bottom 60%. Jonah forgets, or never knew, that the bottom half of America has already sacrificed.
Oh wait, he never cared.
Bonus Brooksie via Eschaton, and something called CEPR. Nearly on topic because Bobo thinks
Obama and Ryan need to get together and have lunch, or at least ‘friend’ each other.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/opinion/15brooks.html?_r=1&hp
And the median household — household! — income in America is $44K.
Man…my apartment doesn’t contribute at all. Damned slacker condo.
my apartment doesn’t contribute at all.
Shame. My place puts me in a higher tax bracket.
I just went back to that Althouse thread I brought up yesterday. Someone called the offending poster out (the one who said that the father of the three dead kids was only sad about losing welfare), and she responded thusly:
How can you cry “RAAAAAACISSSM” when I am merely applying conjecture to attribute bad motives and amorality to any and all members of a minority group?
mark f said,
April 15, 2011 at 17:28
I kinda like this, because now by his logic it’s okay for me to use anecdotal data as irrefutable proof that all conservatives = ungood. (Which isn’t as hard as it sounds).
But Chris, that would make you the Real Racist. The only real racism that really exists is perpetrated against conservatives.
There was this one time when a large bank sold shaky investment instruments and as a result the bank’s assets were splattered all over the inside of what was left of the world economy.
And the first statement fron the CEO———–> “Will I still be getting my check?”
I was stunned!
Six out of ten* U.S. households receive more from the government than they pay in taxes.
So do at least nine out of ten corporations.
*I don’t buy the implication that the wealthy don’t get FAR more in benefits than they pay in and than the poor get out of the government especially via agencies like the FTC, SEC, FAA, NTSB, NIH, NIST, etc, some of which have the main purpose of protecting the wealthy.
“Six out of ten U.S. households receive more from the government than they pay in taxes.” [citation needed]
“Six out of ten U.S. households receive more from the government than they pay in taxes.” [citation needed]
He knows it in his bones.
I don’t buy the implication that the wealthy don’t get FAR more in benefits than they pay in and than the poor get out of the government especially via agencies like the FTC, SEC, FAA, NTSB, NIH, NIST, etc, some of which have the main purpose of protecting the wealthy.
That’s ridiculous! Everyone knows rich people don’t get welfare and that’s the only thing the federal government spends money on. I know it in my bones.
I have a good friend who is an ex-Highway Patrol officer whose beat was in Los Angeles.
I suppose with well over 6 billion people in the world it’s statistically possible there exists a person like the mother in the story, but the likelier possibility is that her cop friend, if he exists at all, is a racist and a liar who saw in Anne a kindred spirit.
How can you cry “RAAAAAACISSSM” when I am merely
applying conjecture torepeating lies that assholes make up to be able to attribute bad motives and amorality to any and all members of a minority group?FEEEEEEEEXED!
NIST
The center of the bullseye for hatred from the truthers.
I suppose with well over 6 billion people in the world it’s statistically possible there exists a person like the mother in the story, but the likelier possibility is that her cop friend, if he exists at all, is a racist and a liar who saw in Anne a kindred spirit.
The fact that we have child labor laws is a testament to a long history of adults willing to exploit children for financial gain. So I can believe that such people exist, but I have seen no evidence that any particular race would have more such people than any other.
tigris beat me to it.
And again, it is no surprise, but the people who post on there are some of the least compassionate people I’ve ever seen.
Also, too, apparently saying people have the right to commit suicide is “pro-suicide.” I suppose it’s no different from being “pro-abortion”.
Republican sloganeering FAIL umpteenth episode.
but the likelier possibility is that her cop friend, if he exists at all, is a racist and a liar who saw in Anne a kindred spirit.
I’ll give you another possible scenario: the mother was so poor that she can’t afford a funeral, and was wondering if she would get assistance for that expense. I don’t know that that is true, but I have as much evidence to support my hypothesis as Anne does for hers.
I don’t buy the implication that the wealthy don’t get FAR more in benefits than they pay in and than the poor get out of the government especially via agencies like the FTC, SEC, FAA, NTSB, NIH, NIST, etc, some of which have the main purpose of protecting the wealthy.
Most of their government benefits don’t even get counted as such.
E.G. 1) Major U.S. (and other) shipping companies use Somali waters for overfishing and waste dumping. 2) Local fishing-based economy ruined, giving rise to pirate groups. 3) U.S. government called upon to do cleanup by protecting the companies and everyone else affected by piracy.
This is something most people wouldn’t even think of as a handout, but it sure seems like one to me – how many things like this happen that’ve become so normal and accepted that no one even notices them anymore?
Republican sloganeering FAIL umpteenth episode.
Ah, but that was before, back when unions were still good and served a purpose and before they turned into evil organs of socialism who’re really more like the robber barons than the old, wholesome
whiteunions of W. J. Bryan’s day.Republican sloganeering FAIL umpteenth episode.
Aaaahahahaha!
Plus, “Make America America Again” is terrible in its own right.
Again, Make America America, Again
The fact that we have child labor laws is a testament to a long history of adults willing to exploit children for financial gain.
Perhaps, but the story refers to a mother who’s just been in an auto accident severe enough to have killed her child in a particularly gruesome way. If the reality was anything like the story I’d still be more inclined to blame shock, concussion, etc than accept Anne’s conclusion, but frankly I still think there are far more lying racists than people so heartlessly exploitative and without human feeling that they’d ever say such a thing, much less at the moment of discovery.
Plus, “Make America America Again” is terrible in its own right.
Although, for the Tea Party I’m thinking a slogan of “wishing America was America again” would be perfect. I mean what could be better for those whiners than “WAWAA!!
Santorum is stealing the Hughes slogan from the Kerry ’04 campaign, which I’m sure is the model he hopes to follow.
I still think there are far more lying racists than people so heartlessly exploitative and without human feeling that they’d ever say such a thing
You crazy dreamer, you. No, wait, you’re right…
If everything isn’t on the verge of flying apart how do you expect anybody to make a profit?
Ayn Rand’s monumental 1,168-page, 1957 novel gets the low-budget, no-talent treatment and sits there flapping on screen like a bludgeoned seal.
Who is Alan Smithee?
Nearly on topic because Bobo thinks
Obama and Ryan need to get together and have lunch, or at least ‘friend’ each other.
Bobo’s writing slashfic?
Again, Make America America, Again the Sequel
Why nitpick around with bringing back child labor and abolishing the minimum wage — let’s just cut right to the chase and repeal the Liberal Prohibition Against Slavery. It’s so totally against the Founding Fathers’ intent in the Original Unamended Constitution after all.
This is something most people wouldn’t even think of as a handout
You might think of it as an invisible handout.
Making America America?
From Ebert’s website:
Ebert:* Users: ****
Poor Libertarians, resigned to consuming crap and telling themselves it’s tournedos Rossini.
They’re kinda like the Fundagelicals- they have to construct a parallel reality of crappy knock-offs because their ideas can’t win in the normal marketplace of ideas.
We would make America America again, but everyone knows all the manufacturing jobs have been shipped overseas. I’m afraid it’s up to the Indonesians to make America America again.
Another hilarious mango from Online Journal– they really dream of magic perpetual energy machines:
“This guy wants to make sure that the message of the movie doesn’t get watered down,” Broderick said. “He can control the marketing, how much is spent. And if you can get enough people out from those core audiences the first weekend, it can build.“
Make America make America America America again again make America make America America America again.
You have to accept “America” as a verb, but that works.
Well, that settles it, then.
This is something most people wouldn’t even think of as a handout
Heck, I don’t; I think of it as a handjob.
Also: Again, Make America America, Again the Sequel
Make America America, Again II: The Againining?
Anyhoo, maybe this will draw more attention to the poem at the link, which is pretty great.
But “Alan Smithee” is the name used when the director is ashamed of what he’s done. This guy is proud of his celluloid turd, that’s why it’s funnay!
Instead of ripping off Langston Hughes, maybe he could go with something similar, but original, like America for the Americans!
I don’t think that one’s been taken, exactly.
According the story (not a review, a standalone story) on NPR the train is named John Galt?!? WTF? Did they actuallly take a st00pid plot and make it worse?
Again America make America make America America again make again again America make America make America America again.
Well, that settles it, then.
Well, compared to Buchanan, Trump isn’t a racist…
Head, desk, I think you two will get along just fine.
Also, I haven’t seen Chris Jansing in a long time- man, she looks like an anime character.
Oh dear FSM, why does this surprise not one bit?
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/04/reality_what_a_concept_1.php?ref=fpblg
Also, having a sundial on your wrist wouldn’t actually help you tell the time, since sundials have to be fixed in place to work.
You can have a portable sundial— it doesn’t even have to have a compass in it.
I have no idea when the first of such were developed though (most portable ones seem to be medieval or later).
In one subplot a crew of union workers led by a clueless stooge is forced to build the Greenspan Bridge, thus providing passage to a malevolent crew of investment bankers. The stooge, realizing what he has done, jumps for joy and murders the workers before they can set the explosives off.
Oh dear FSM, why does this surprise not one bit?
Oh, yeah, well, you know, she was
whitespecialrichsomeone who paid into the system, so she deserved her Medicare.BTW, I knew that Ryan was a Randroid just by the way he talks.
Paul Ryan sniffles and whines in public; NRO celebrates his manly fortitude.
According the story (not a review, a standalone story) on NPR the train is named John Galt?!? WTF?
Good morning, parasites, how are you?
Don’t you know me? I’m your native son
I’m the train the randians supers call the John Galt,
I’ll be gone to a hidden gulch when the day is done.
I knew that Ryan was a Randroid just by
the way he talkshis haircut.Fiqqst for more doofusness.
BBBB just won the internets for all time.
“Also, I haven’t seen Chris Jansing in a long time- man, she looks like an anime character.”
This is hilarious because it’s true.
Related to something up above.
When Ryan goes Galt he can just fly off with his huge Dumbo ears. SELF-RELIANCE, bitches.
Related to something up above.
Wow, the writing in that was really…offensive.
Yes. Do not read the comments there.
New thread!!!
The sinking of New Orleans, a huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a financial collapse and a plane flying into the Pentagon just do not rate when budget figures are not to one’s liking.
I rate for all those things, especially New Orleans. People are ridiculously stupid. They rate poorly the comments of those who are for letting New Orleans die, and those who are against that get good rates! FU! Rate my comment however u want, I DO NOT GIVE A SHIT!
I refuse to jump whenever a new thread………………..
wait for me
wait for me
w….
WTF? Did they actuallly take a st00pid plot and make it worse?
UNPOSSIBLE!
mmmm, veggie burritos and root beer (now, that’s a dream) … and booo booo booo booo boooooooooo
While it may be interesting to find out whatever happened to so-and-so from high school math class, I mostly want to tune in to the soft whisper of God’s voice. And I don’t want to be busy texting when He is trying to find me.
Reminds me of that bumper sticker “Baby Jesus Loves You. Everyone Else Thinks You’re An Asshole.”