Shuck right down to the cob.

(That's Indiana corn-eatin' talk.)

Big Mac on Obamacare.

For a time —in retrospect, a short time— HHS used to publish a list of the organizations who'd been excuse from participation in Obamacare. (Excluding of course Congress. And the Obama family.) This is the link to that last page of data, then at over 2 million.

Shuck right down to the cob.

Right underneath was an ad describing how Twitter could help small businesses. I don't think your linked tweet was what they meant.

Does anyone remember this tune? I have questions.

> I don't think your linked
> tweet was what they meant.

Well, the guy publishes the same sentiment every day... That's the allusion of his name. I happened to see it first on my own birthday, and was all like "Shit, dude...".

But you ought to using an ad blocker anyway!

What a pair of boobs! Not the mom's BTW

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3725576/Breastfeeding-mother-squirted-boob-woman-complained.html

The elites need their refuge:

At one sidewalk standoff, his primary opponent — Paul Nehlen, a 47-year-old businessman with tattooed biceps and a deep affinity for Trump — cast Ryan’s backyard fence as an elitist barricade that protects the speaker while his constituents are exposed to the dangers of illegal immigration.

“You should tear down your wall and show everyone that you will live under the same conditions as they do,” Nehlen declared last month as his backers, in matching navy blue T-shirts, stood in front of Ryan’s bushes. They nodded solemnly as he called Ryan a tool of “corporate masters.”

Perhaps the most unsettling moment came when a group of mothers whose children had been killed by illegal immigrants staked out Ryan’s home while he was inside and tried to confront him with poster-size images of the deceased.

Shut-in nerd archives evidence of sloppy proof-reading in title header:

http://archive.is/wQfcQ

Now for the real article:

http://www.dallasnews.com/investigations/watchdog/20160805-watchdog-dallas-woman-discovers-new-secret-service-sex-scandals-through-public-information-requests.ece

This is an intense piece, even if you don't usually go for such stuff:

It is shocking to see 9/11 used as a literary figure, rather than depicted as a historical event. And there can be no doubt that it is being used as a figure: several important details have been changed. None of the planes were heading from Europe or toward New York originally, and the hijackings were messy affairs—the passengers were not unaware that something had gone badly wrong in their final minutes. Yet, while one critic has called these scenes “grotesque,” they are not per se disrespectful, any more than fictionalizing certain parts of Pearl Harbor in From Here to Eternity (novel 1951, film 1953) was. And it does make sense that a writer seeking to reflect on our age would reflect on one of the seminal moments of our age. What makes it truly arresting is what he’s saying with it.

For most Americans who remember that terrible day, 9/11 is a unique event. But the Oratorio, perhaps reflecting its European origin, looks at the attack less as a single outrageous event and more as a metaphor for the turning of the tide. Since that date, the West’s problems have steadily deepened, and the ability of our elites to manage the world has seemed to decay. The Oratorio comes to us against a background of crisis and failure: the global financial crisis of 07-08, the euro crisis that followed, and the persistent inability to get back afterward to what we once regarded as normal. There are the terror and refugee crises arising out of the uncontrolled and perhaps uncontrollable descent of the Middle East into chaos and war. Closer to home, the decay of blue model institutions and practices that once provided both economic security and growth eats into Western self-assurance and breeds skepticism among young people for whom the platitudes of their elders seem unrelated to the problems young people face. With all that, the rise of illiberal populists in the West and beyond poses the kind of challenge to democratic societies not seen since the 1930s.

The Oratorio Balbulum feels like an honest and frank look at a deep crisis in the Western world, uttering truths that the transatlantic establishment has at least so far proven unwilling or unable fully to face. That the 9/11 attacks strike Esterházy and Eötvös as the most cohesive and encompassing metaphor for our times is deeply depressing.

I pray to God they don't listen to Hillary.

Six, that's a wonderful story.

Perfect... Fucking Perfect.

Perfect... Fucking Perfect.

Shucks!

https://gfycat.com/LinearGlamorousAmericanquarterhorse