Another annoying Tweet from the Darwin Awards Twitter feed.

Usually, when I watch the Darwin Award videos, I at least understand what the bonehead was trying to do. But this is incomprehensible to me.

What was the expected outcome of this? What would have made this look like something cool or amazing? How does a person get so inebriated that something so obviously and unfathomably stupid seem like a good idea?

Looks like a WWE move. Was he trying to jump, hit the table with one arm (pile driver?), and snap the table in half? Of course the WWE is fake and uses prebroken tables. But plenty of idiots copy the power rangers too.

Don't steal from Target. They have a top-rated forensics lab. Yes, Target.

CSI: Target.

Libertarian Convention attendees look like Comic Con attendees.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Re: Target CSI - maybe their management will ask the lab what to label their bathrooms, so they can get their business back.

Re: Libertarian convention - MegaCon is in Orlando this same weekend. It's gonna draw more people.

That looks like so much fun. I used to do 2-3 of these cons a year. (I think maybe you too, since you seem to know the Babylon 5 cast.)

I'm glad I was cosplaying before it became so popular, because I could never compete with the costuming that's out there now.

Someday I'd like to live in Orlando.

Oklahoma Drops National Guard Benefits For All Couples To Avoid Serving Same-Sex Couples

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/11/19/2970531/oklahoma-national-guard/

On the bright side, misery is now a sign of equality.

I mean... °o°

IP, Yaya Han was at DragonCon a couple of years ago. Truly sick attention to detail. I'm trying to get Ryoko-Demon (Irina Litvinova) and R&R Art Group to appear.
I don't cosplay, but appreciate anything done that well!

What is Donald Trump's appeal? Peggy Noonan asks and answers. Washington is rigged ... and the voters know it.

"The most interesting thing Donald Trump has said recently isn’t his taunting of Hillary Clinton, it’s his comment to Bloomberg’s Joshua Green. Mr. Green writes: “Many politicians, Trump told me, had privately confessed to being amazed that his policies, and his lacerating criticism of party leaders, had proved such potent electoral medicine.” Mr. Trump seemed to “intuit,” Mr. Green writes, that standard Republican dogma on entitlements and immigration no longer holds sway with large swaths of the party electorate. Mr. Trump says he sees his supporters as part of 'a movement.'"

'What, Mr. Green asked, would the party look like in five years? 'Love the question,' Mr. Trump replied. 'Five, 10 years from now—different party. You’re going to have a worker’s party. A party of people that haven’t had a real wage increase in 18 years.'"

"My impression on reading this was that Mr. Trump is seeing it as a party of regular people, as the Democratic Party was when I was a child and the Republican Party when I was a young woman."

"This is the first thing I’ve seen that suggests Mr. Trump is ideologically conscious of what he’s doing. It’s not just ego and orange hair, he suggests, it’s politically intentional."

AND

"A high official in the IRS named Lois Lerner targets those she finds politically hateful. IRS officials are in the White House a lot, which oddly enough finds the same people hateful. News of the IRS targeting is about to break because an inspector general is on the case, so Ms. Lerner plants a question at a conference, answers with a rehearsed lie, tries to pin the scandal on workers in a cubicle farm in Cincinnati, lies some more, gets called into Congress, takes the Fifth—and then retires with full pension and benefits, bonuses intact. Taxpayers will be footing the bill for years for the woman who in some cases targeted them, and blew up the reputation of the IRS."

"Why wouldn’t Americans think the system is rigged?"

"This is Washington in our era: a place not so much of personal as of civic decadence, where the Lois Lerner always gets away with it."

AND

"It is widely assumed that Mrs. Clinton will pay no price for misbehavior because the Democratic president’s Justice Department is not going to proceed with charges against the likely Democratic presidential nominee."

"This is what everyone thinks, and not only because they watch “Scandal.” Because they watch the news."

"That is the civic decadence they want to see blown up. And there’s this orange-colored bomb . . . ."

The difference, and what makes Hillary a lousy candidate overall, is that she wants to be president while Donald wants to do something with the presidency.

That's why she lost to Obama. She wanted to be president while he wanted to do something with the presidency.

Until she can convey a sense of mission, of a wider purpose, she'll always be the woman who wants to be president.

That's also where the Libertarians fail. They really, really want to have their candidate be president so they can magically have things their own way; but they lack a sense of mission, a sense of what they want to do with the presidency. They lack a sense of where the country, and their party, will be with a Libertarian presidency.

'she wants to be president while Donald wants to do something with the presidency.'

I don't like Hillary but thinking that Trump is doing this out of some concern for the moneyless hordes he despises is ridiculous.

Candidates want power because they want power. Twas ever thus.

That's also where the Libertarians fail. They really, really want to have their candidate be president so they can magically have things their own way; but they lack a sense of mission, a sense of what they want to do with the presidency. They lack a sense of where the country, and their party, will be with a Libertarian presidency.

I think it's true. We mostly talk in terms of what we don't want anymore. Johnson's most promising plank IMO is enticing business back into the U.S. by implementing the Fair Tax and abolishing corporate income tax, but he's not helping people visualize the process or the end result.

He needs better coaching.

I don't like Hillary but thinking that Trump is doing this out of some concern for the moneyless hordes he despises is ridiculous.

Candidates want power because they want power. Twas ever thus.

Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at May 29, 2016 11:37 AM

The point is not that Trump is altruistically doing something for the masses (he's not), but that Trump is articulating a plan for once he is president. Meanwhile, Hillary is urging people to make her the president and thinking that simply not being a Republican is enough to put her over the top.

That's why she's struggling to put away Bernie Sanders and failed to put away the freshman senator in her last outing, whereas Trump made short work of his nomination opponents, opponents who were, in some ways, better presidential timber than he was.

In short, he's a better strategic thinker than she is.

Gog, notice the difference in their slogans.

"Make America Great Again." vs. "Ready for Hillary."

Which one conveys a sense of mission and which one is only about the candidate?

I likes me some slogans.

I don't know about you guys but I often kick in my girlfriend's apartment door in the dead of night.

Then I kick in her bedroom door, too.

But only because that's how they do it in the NBA.

Ben:

Looks like a WWE move. Was he trying to jump, hit the table with one arm (pile driver?), and snap the table in half? Of course the WWE is fake and uses prebroken tables. But plenty of idiots copy the power rangers too.

That's what I considered, too. But what would be the point of that? He would still land on the floor on his ass. I can't imagine successfully breaking the table would have done much to cushion the impact.

And besides using pre-broken tables, WWE wrestlers are roided freaks who weight close to 300 pounds, nearly twice what this young kid weighs.

It's just that normally, when I watch these videos, I can tell what they were trying to do. Like the German guy who tried to break through the ice on a frozen swimming pool, only to find that the ice was still too thick.

He thought he could break through the ice and give himself a soak in near-freezing water. Not my idea of a good time, but it was a stunt. I could see what he was trying to do and how it would have ended harmlessly for him had it gone right.

But this bit with the table? I can't see a way that this could have turned out right for him.

Patrick, I think he was going for this. As mentioned above, the WWE uses pre-broken tables.

Note that they seem to land on the floor without significant impact, as though the table absorbed a lot of it.

Patrick, I think he was going for this. As mentioned above, the WWE uses pre-broken tables.

Perhaps he was going for that. But in addition to using prebroken tables, he should also realize that the WWE uses roided out freaks who can take a certain amount of punishment and do stunts like this for a living.

My little brother hurt himself trying to do a "knee drop." He was 9.

If you follow John Cena on social media, you can watch juiceheads in the Comment section compare steroid cocktail recipes and argue about what he's "probably" using this year.

With this sort of nonsense going on how can any true American not despise the government?

Disgusting!

Looks like Hulk Hogan vs Gawker is turning out to be a battle of the billionaires.

Peter Thiel is funding Hulk Hogan's lawyers, and now Pierre Omidyar is funding Nick Denton's (Gawker's owner). So here's a crude artistic representation of what's going on behind the scenes:

http://i.imgur.com/HAj1jEc.jpg

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2016/05/29/boy-who-fell-into-zoo-gorilla-exhibit-out-hospital/85131108/

What are the odds that they sue the zoo?

With this sort of nonsense going on how can any true American not despise the government?

Disgusting!

Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at May 29, 2016 2:39 PM

The government purchased the Krejci Dump (using taxpayer money) without inspecting the land first. When it discovered that it had purchased a toxic waste dump to be included in a National Park, it had no choice but to clean it up.

The cost of the cleanup was $50 million. Lawsuits provided $21 million. Ford and GM provided the remaining money, $29 million.

This isn't quite the example of government competence and benevolence you think it is.

"This isn't quite the example of government competence and benevolence you think it is."

Your ability to read others' thoughts is astounding.

On a happier (and more easily-documented) note, phonesters are missing big stuff.

Like the whale right next to them, frinstance.

On a happier (and more easily-documented) note, phonesters are missing big stuff.

Like the whale right next to them, frinstance.

Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at May 29, 2016 5:50 PM

My wife and I took a whale watching trip to the Farallons that was packed with hipsters. I got elbowed out of the way as a drunken guy with a selfie stick chased every possible sighting on the deck.

Group seasickness, a drunken off key sing-along, and a lesbian make-out session capped off a memorable trip.

Never go whale watching with hipsters.

Your ability to read others' thoughts is astounding.

Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at May 29, 2016 5:34 PM

Since you tend to favor government action and the linked documentation was all laudatory, I thought you were using it as an example of good government action. I was pointing out the reality of the situation..

Ever notice not one of these zoo stories has shown a shot of the enclosure showing the point of view the public would be looking at it so we can see what the barricades look like?