Advice Goddess Free Swim
It's Tuesday night, and I'm super-zonked.
You pick the topics. I'll try to post a piece in the morning.
P.S. One link per comment or my spam filter will eat your post.
Advice Goddess Free Swim
It's Tuesday night, and I'm super-zonked.
You pick the topics. I'll try to post a piece in the morning.
P.S. One link per comment or my spam filter will eat your post.
This is, indeed, fascinating.
I mean, I never cared, but there were a few Amys out there who cared enough for all the rest of us. (And she did it on a budget.)
(Secret personal indulgence: Good sports coats, 1974-Johnny Carson-cut-lapels, made from classic/British wool, Camelhair and silk.)
Crid at February 6, 2018 10:59 PM
Rather than get all panty-bunched, Douthat reminds how human nature works.
See also, Jerry + others, yesterday
Crid at February 6, 2018 11:09 PM
They call this The Circle of Life.
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This sports/'tics analogy is really starting to take root, which I think is a fine thing...
Remember that Hillary was born in 1947. She was indisputably bright, and her ambition was nourished in her earliest years by her father, who admired her enthusiasm as her brothers seemed, in Paglia's word, "recessive."
Let's set aside 1948 ('Dewey Defeats Truman'), as she was in diapers. Let's also spot her 1952 (Ike defeats Adlai= #1), when she was presumably learning to read.
But by 1956 (Ike defeats Adlai= #2), she was probably listening to the radio, watching TV, reading newspapers and talking to adults such that she learned the workings of the electoral college.
I doubt Donald Trump had even heard of the EC before October 2016... And he probably still doesn't care.
Which means that she bungled that election even though she had a six-decade head start in knowing how things worked.
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Miscellaneous business: It's just not in my heart to read the details of the Uma Thurman thing... I'm just too old, and neither the Big Oom nor any of her filmmaker/oppressors ever gave me the time of day.
Could someone please do the reading and post a comment here in a couple of sentences if there's anything we need to from the perspectives of either good gossip or civil rights? Thanks.
Crid at February 6, 2018 11:36 PM
The guy's beautiful, and I don't care about football. Or earpods. Check out that fabric.
Crid at February 6, 2018 11:41 PM
~50 years ago, the USA was looking up. The space program was something we were doing well.
Since then, we have been told constantly to look down. We suck, we are told. We cannot do anything but molest women and children and offend each other.
Not any more.
Radwaste at February 7, 2018 1:59 AM
Fashion!
Crid at February 7, 2018 2:31 AM
Old Business:
> how do you KNOW it's wrong to
> say that people stop listening
> to people who say things they
> don't want to hear - ESPECIALLY
> when the speaker is a foul-
> mouthed boor?
lenona at February 3, 2018 8:48 AM
Um, I didn't say anything about the rightness or wrongness of that particular position. Wut I sed wuz "people demand to be flattered for the things they believe or think about," and they shouldn't.
Crid at February 7, 2018 3:02 AM
A Democratic Congressman tried to collude with Russians to compromise the President -
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/02/06/democrat-adam-schiff-fell-for-russian-prankster-spoof-promising-compromising-dirt-on-donald-trump/
Snoopy at February 7, 2018 4:13 AM
Grid girl protest -
http://metro.co.uk/2018/02/06/grid-girl-hits-back-at-feminists-who-are-forcing-other-women-out-of-work-7289792/
Snoopy at February 7, 2018 4:15 AM
Gender pay gap at Uber - men earn more because they drive faster than women -
http://freakonomics.com/podcast/what-can-uber-teach-us-about-the-gender-pay-gap/
Snoopy at February 7, 2018 4:19 AM
Counterfeit Elitism -
https://amgreatness.com/2018/02/05/counterfeit-elitism/
Snoopy at February 7, 2018 4:41 AM
Will an insistence on diversity erode standards and leave us awash in mediocre engineers, doctors, and scientists?
The people calling the loudest for equal representation in STEM fields seem to be singers, actors, activists, politicians, etc. - professions that require very little study or technical skill and for which color, sex, and ethnicity can be deciding factors in one's success.
Conan the Grammarian at February 7, 2018 6:00 AM
Ok, we're finally underway: This single tweet may portend greater justice, or at least deeper correction, for more assaults and intrusions than everything we've heard from New York, Los Angeles and DC in the last five months.
Crid at February 7, 2018 7:04 AM
Not surprised. Ever work retail? It's full of petty tyrants. Small people with despotic tendencies put in charge. People with little education or experience of the world given sway over hundreds of lives and livelihoods. Everything you've ever seen in the movies and on TV about retail bosses is true; maybe not applicable to all retail bosses, but to enough.
Conan the Grammarian at February 7, 2018 7:26 AM
In case you didn't understand the difference between sexual assault, sexual harassment, and sexual misconduct.
Degrees of difference can be important distinctions, even for something awful.
Conan the Grammarian at February 7, 2018 7:30 AM
This news story reminds us that against the best predictions of summertime '16, Scott Baio is NOT actually a member of the President's cabinet.
Crid at February 7, 2018 7:44 AM
Going to the Winter Olympics? might want to pack your thermal undies. Tho these won't be the Chosin Few.
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/winter-olympics-2018/record-breaking-cold-pyeongchang-braces-frigid-weather-ahead-olympics-n844836
I R A Darth Aggie at February 7, 2018 8:31 AM
James Madison University nailed to the tune of $850K for flawed Title IX process.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/26836/judge-instructs-james-madison-university-pay-emily-zanotti#
I R A Darth Aggie at February 7, 2018 8:40 AM
Some politicians need to be beaten with a clue X 4. Here are two.
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10473
Question: will these two geniuses make their state colleges and universities waive application fees for in-state students?
I R A Darth Aggie at February 7, 2018 9:30 AM
Add on question, is it good enough to just fill out the form and not pay the application fee? Talk about annoying your local college as millions of applications are sent it with no intention of following through with them.
Ben at February 7, 2018 9:48 AM
Ordinarily, I'd say drunk, angry posting is not the best idea, but in this case it worked out.
https://www.boredpanda.com/immunologist-destroys-anti-vaxxer-explains-vaccines/
I R A Darth Aggie at February 7, 2018 10:25 AM
Talk about annoying your local college as millions of applications are sent it with no intention of following through with them.
Well, it won't be millions, as the state population is just a hair over 2 million. Recent live birth data is clocking near 25,000/year, so maybe 20,000 or so applications, minus the people who will sign up for the military in their junior year and those going the intern/apprenticeship route.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico
I R A Darth Aggie at February 7, 2018 10:33 AM
Author of Yahoo News Article Used to Obtain FISA Warrant on Trump Campaign Was Secretly Working With DNC -
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/author-yahoo-news-article-used-obtain-fisa-warrant-trump-campaign-secretly-working-dnc/
Snoopy at February 7, 2018 12:48 PM
The music you should be listening to.
Crid at February 7, 2018 1:00 PM
On Dylan Farrow, Woody Allen and #MeToo:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/opinion/woody-allen.html
There are three letters. I'm sure most people here will be very glad to see them.
lenona at February 7, 2018 4:21 PM
The fact that one recently retired member of Trump's staff (albeit not Cabinet-level) moved on to a reality TV game show, and not a lobbying, news, or private enterprise job, gives one pause to consider the caliber of people being hired for that staff.
If you're the proper caliber person for a president's staff, even in a minor position, you should command considerable interest in the private sector. She did not and is now back to the only job for which she seems qualified, reality TV contestant.
Even Kal Penn, the actor who was part of Obama's staff maintained a certain amount of post-administration dignity - his abetting the production of more Harold and Kumar movies notwithstanding.
Conan the Grammarian at February 8, 2018 1:06 PM
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