Remember when the market was going to "collapse" after the President's victory? It's now up over 30% since the election, and the "U.S. economy is running at its full potential for the first time in a decade" according to the @WSJ

https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/937484336743505920

Unfortunately, it's been years since the market has had any relationship to the actual state of the economy. It's all large investors - mutual funds, hedge funds, pension and endowment funds - milking what they can out of it before the entire house of cards comes crashing down.

Large portions of America are effectively being excluded from the economy, which makes it easy to fudge the numbers. This is still a good place to be poor but it's getting harder to get out of it.

"DAMN SON! Jenna Jameson handed Billy Baldwin his ASS for slut-shaming her (over Alyssa Milano)"

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2017/12/04/damn-son-jenna-jameson-handed-billy-baldwin-his-ass-for-slut-shaming-her-over-alyssa-milano/

Dumb mook.

*raised eyebrow*

A titillating, festive craze sees women decorate their boobs to look like reindeer.

https://nypost.com/2017/12/03/women-are-decorating-their-boobs-to-look-like-reindeer/

Might be safe for work. Or not. YMMV.

They got the faster part down. Now, can they bring it to market?

Honda is planning a fix for one of the biggest downsides of electric car ownership as soon as five years from now. According to Nikkei, the world’s largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines claims it will have EVs capable of a full charge in just 15 minutes by 2022.

http://www.thedrive.com/sheetmetal/16365/honda-claims-its-electric-cars-will-charge-in-15-minutes-by-2022

Ouch.

https://twitter.com/SenatorTimScott/status/936701308148637702

"DAMN SON! Jenna Jameson handed Billy Baldwin his ASS for slut-shaming her (over Alyssa Milano)"

Given that the first Google result for "jenna jameson slut" is an X-rated extravaganza called "Slut Nurse," I'd say she is a slut. Whether that's a matter of shame is between Ms. Jameson, God and her gynecologist.

> I'd say she is a slut.

That's what you'd say, but who would ask(?) you?

It's kinda like you want to say that about someone.

Google isn't necessarily the go-to source for personal condemnations of this nature.

Not sure the omniscient, omnipotent creator of all things, the supernatural being than which no greater can be conceived GAF who she kisses, either.

It's kinda like you want to say that about someone.

I don't necessarily want to, or need to, but I don't mind doing so.

A titillating, festive craze sees women decorate their boobs to look like reindeer.

Coming soon, man fired for sexually harnessing women by
1 looking at reindeer
2 not looking at reindeer
3 commenting on reindeer
4 not commenting on reindeer

Yes, I know my pants are unzipped, but it looks just like a reindeer what with that big red nose!

Ok, right?

Diversity is our greatest strength:

https://memestatic.fjcdn.com/pictures/Diversity+is+our+strength_fec89f_6176417.jpg

Supreme Court put Trump travel ban back into place -

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/12/04/travel-ban-back-place-scotus-halts-lower-court-injunction/

Our lovely blog hostess is apparently oppressing herself with bacon.

A Pennsylvania State University sociology professor recently argued that eating meat perpetuates “hegemonic masculinity” and “gender hegemony.”

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10221

I'd say she is a slut.

You have made an assertion. If you want to cast pejoratives at her, go with "whore", since she gets paid to have sex.

If you want to have fun, try this as your google search: alyssa milano slut

You have made an assertion. If you want to cast pejoratives at her, go with "whore", since she gets paid to have sex.

Sorry; I guess I'm just not politically correct!

> I don't necessarily want to,
> or need to

Right, so if no one asked....

> but I don't mind doing so

You're a renegade, a maverick... A courageous, take-charge truth-teller.



> try this as your google search:

Miss Milano has always spoken highly of your work, Ira.

It's not that I'm unashamed of so much of what I've said online, it's that I'm glad (though not especially proud) I never worked on television where dim people would feel the need to fire me for things said eight years ago.

I mean, if your presence on a tv show means that little to people, maybe there's other work to be done.

> Sorry; I guess I'm just not
> politically correct!

And let me guess: You'll never apologize for it!

> need to fire me for things said eight years ago

The left has regularly gotten people fired over social media posts for years. Now the right is using their playbook, with great success. Members of the mainstream media should not make child rape jokes on their public social media accounts.

Just found this (granted, it's not as well written as any of Richard Dawkins' books, I dare say):

https://godisimaginary.com

There are 50 points to click on, including:

"Look at all historical gods"

"Take a look at slavery"

"Examine Jesus' miracles"

"Realize that Jesus was a jerk"

"Understand Christian motivations"

"Ponder Pascal's Wager"

"Look at who speaks for God"

Lenona: from a little over 9 years ago...

I always enjoy reading the unhinged rants of morons who wait a full year after everyone stopped discussing a topic to chime in

> using their playbook

It's a playbook, right? You're saying this is a SPORTS CONTEST, a brutal, full-contact battle of essential truths, appearing on a field before you in teams. Only one squad can succeed, so it's important to have a playbook with the absolute best plays in it, even if you have to steal those plays from the other guy's playbook.

Meanwhile, somethingsomethingwhatever 'mainstream media,' because it's a 'war.' And war is Hell.

Right? Sure.

I remember a few months ago, how your own context for reviewing my judgments about news events was Olympic championship: 'You're just upset because your guy lost the election!'... As if the childlike allegiance to a TV/sports hero was the nature of thoughtful ideology, policy and comity. As if the whole of your social intellect was condensed into that single warrior combat... And you assumed that everyone around you expressed the whole of their citizenship through some idiotic proxy as well. No issues, trends, history, complications, or nuances. Just Winning! Ugg!




Y'know, I can make peace with the fact that undersexed and undersocialized voters from both sides, distracted and unprincipled, are now running the tables in American governance... Things had become so fat & corrupt that the little boys made their move.

But do these voters expect that their trite, shallow and inane resentments are supposed to be respected as a school of political thought, as a pattern of social engagement that's going to improve society?




Why exactly are you fuckers so pornographically enchanted by the phrase, let alone the phenomenon of, "mainstream media"?

Are you concerned for your own sources? NPR excepted, these are all private businesses. If you don't like their work, why do you patronize them? Never in human history has it been so easy to communicate with diverse, distant and and dissident figures of expertise and insight. (I ran into a well-known guy last night in a restaurant, but I'm too cool to name drop... We have the slightest possible aquaintance on the internet, but I've asked him to explain how things happen out there a number of times, and he's always answered sincerely. It was good to again shake the hand before leaving.) Books, papers, columns and electronic works of all kinds, as well as nearly instantaneous personal consultation, are cheaply or freely available as never before. (See #13.) Yet your unremarkable thinking is obviously delivered to you, rote, by the most mundane voices imaginable, hucksters all. So if CBS News or some other nightmare figures in a "mainstream" offend you, why wouldn't you simply avoid them and get your information from better communicators?




Because you're not concerned with your own enlightenment, are you... What you really want is to tell others what information should be available to them, and where the boundaries of their tastes are drawn. Your fantasy of influencing the lives of your fellows is that primitive and commanding.

You are the twin of the personalities you despise, both of you crawling through the same mud of your shared season.

And in this latest tempest, the shared stain on the knees of your pants is called "fake news." You, and the twitchiest liberals, are just certain there's some new strain of dishonesty at work in public life, and you needed a fresh name for it... As if no one had ever strained credulity in pursuit of political interests until, maybe, April of 2006. How can this NOT seem childish to you?

You, and your Tweedle-dee counterparts, are doing your damnedest to choke one of the most decent strands of human character in world history, and one of the most distinctly American.

You should stop.

> You should stop.

Did you stick up for Jeffrey Lord when he was fired for a tweet?

Again with your precious (if imaginary) loyalty by affinity.

I have no idea who that is; no idea what happened to him; no idea what it would mean for me (or anyone) to 'stick up for him'; no idea why you'd seek to include me in your lonely little pantomimes of short-sentence participation in transient cultural (showbiz? sports? education?) events; and no idea why you're desperate for a litmus of moral validation in such trivial handbag-slappings by distant strangers.

Have you read a hardback in 2017?

So, yeah, sure, there will always be plenty of countries ready to constrain free expression by policy on the basis of some self-flattering argument.

But the United States, whatever her strength. can never demand by policy the free expression of ideas in private or commercial realms.

Civilization is entirely dependent on the clarity of liberty-minded people & firms in the West to sustain their miraculous patterns of freedom.

We're fucking it up.

Anyone, ANYONE who uses the term "fake news" is part of the problem.

Thanks, Rad. Don't think I was reading this blog that far back - feel free to prove otherwise, if you can.

Has anyone mentioned that site between then and now?

Anyway, here's what the late, great Douglas Adams wrote, in his 20s:

"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that You exist, and so therefore, by Your own arguments, You don't. QED"

"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.