Wouldn't it be great if Southwest Airlines' Wifi worked? That kind you pay extra for, I mean? Wouldn't that just be face-meltingly gratifying? Wouldn't it be great if, instead of receiving a sincere and polite by meatless apology from a flight attendant who has better things to worry about (again), they could just fix the freaking WiFi? ...After it has already failed on that selfsame flight for your previous three bookings as well as the current one?

And on those occasions when they can't, wouldn't it be great if you could have those hours back, the ones spent looking up at the breeze-nipple in boredom for four loops of the Big Hand instead of writing up the personal emails and trip reports which were so freshly dancing through your heart when you thought you were going to have a productive session in an especially uncomfortable chair?

Yes, Southwest Airlines, it would certainly be a grant thing if the WiFi worked, specially when people pay extra for it.

Okay, here's something statuesque.

I enjoy Twitter. Do others enjoy Twitter?

A great thing, not a grant thing. Thing is, you will grant me that it would be a great thing if the WiFi worked on Southwest Airlines, right? Sure.

And now, thoughts for Cousin Dave, who can't get to Zerohedge at work. (1.) Have you tried putting https: on your first link or URL to the page? (2.) Can you run Tor portable? (Probably not, IT departments get pissy about it.) (3.) Consider running Teamviewer (there's a portable version) on your work machine to access a cheap/shabby laptop on your home router for web browsing at work. A suitable used laptop for such mild work would probably cost $150.

vocals interlude...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh6Fmree1gY

Still like this better. Ask the children in your life if they like it better.

Imagine if Pepe LePew was truly rico suave.

It's SSC, talkin' 'tics:

1. Is Trump getting a lot of his support from white supremacist organizations?

No, because there are not enough organized white supremacists to make up “a lot” of anyone’s support.

Ha ha.

...Avakian turned his sights to higher office. In last week’s general election, he ran for Oregon secretary of state. But in an upset, Dennis Richardson, a former state representative and gubernatorial candidate, trounced Avakian. Richardson will become the first Republican to win an Oregon statewide office in 14 years, and the first Republican secretary of state since 1985.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/14/oregon-official-who-destroyed-christian-bakery-over-gay-wedding-cake-loses-election/

Boppping around the archives of Variety I found this article on Chris Matthews, he of MSNBC/Trump Is A Sexist fame.

Chris was on a live mic commenting on Melania's, um, walking style.

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/chris-matthews-sexist-melanie-donald-trump-msnbc-1201766549/

Because, you see, Seville used to....

The "internet of things" will doom us all. Skynet smiles. Tho a "smart" crock pot isn't the worst idea in the world.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3137963/security/update-your-belkin-wemo-devices-before-they-become-botnet-zombies.html

http://www.zdnet.com/article/insulin-pump-vulnerabilities-could-lead-to-overdose/

Looks like we have another chorus of last week's Ding Dong song to sing tonight!

♫ ♬

Rub your eyes;
Get out of bed!

                  🎶

Great job! I particularly like leaving the stove on. Bravo!

Veteran suffering from PTSD calls suicide hotline, admits to gun ownership, but repeatedly explains he doesn’t have a weapon at the ready. His interlocutor calls D.C. police anyway, who send in SWAT. He surrenders. Police search his home, see nothing concerning in plain view. Hours later, they re-enter, rip the place apart — and (allegedly) leave the stove on and the front door unlocked for two weeks while he’s in jail. D.C. Circuit: The second search violated the Fourth Amendment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/11/14/short-circuit-a-roundup-of-recent-federal-court-decisions-29/

And he is still employed.

Imagine if he said that about anyone but white people.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Rutgers-Professor-Psychiatric-Evaluation-New-York-Jersey-Political-Statements-Threat-401510195.html

From Sixclaws' shooting linkie:

In another, he said "will the 2nd amendment be as cool when i buy a gun and start shooting atrandom white people or no...?"

Eh...on one hand, I can't get worked up over that. There isn't a specific threat in that, it appears to be a rhetorical question.

On the other hand, punch back twice as hard, make them live by their own rule book.

Your vote may have been a hate crime. You criminals.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/11/voting-for-trump-as-a-hate-crime.php

And another. Not sure who wrote the head line and subheader. What the author fails to consider is that Trump did better with minorities than Romney or McCain.

There’s No Such Thing as a Good Trump Voter

People voted for a racist who promised racist outcomes. They don’t deserve your empathy.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/11/there_is_no_such_thing_as_a_good_trump_voter.html

Large, four hooved herbivores generally get the right of way. Especially if you're on foot.

https://vine.co/v/5Ti2iYVd7BV

"Wouldn't it be great if Southwest Airlines' Wifi worked? "

I can assure you that Delta's isn't any better. The cost went up recently and I decided to drop my subscription.

And I'll look into the Teamviewer thing. The home part shouldn't be a problem, but the work part I'll have to check on. They keep our laptops locked up tight, and they won't accept most non-DoD certs, which makes using https connections outside of government domains problematic.

The founder of The People's Cube arrested and charged with a felony for posting posters at George Mason University. I have seldom seen a more blatant case of someone being prosecuted for political speech in the U.S.

If you can hear Keith Olbermann's voice, you might be part of the resistance.

https://youtu.be/RNcji9CknMs

So Stockholm apparently decided that, since sidewalks and bike paths are more "female" than roads are, when it snows, the "female" routes deserve to be taken care of first. (How quaint! How traditionally feminine!) The results were predicatable.

DOD? Nevahmind, you're on your own. (I'd bring a laptop/small tablet and feed it USB from private cell, if desparate.)

I'm beginning to hate this anti-white shit. And no, I'm not some alt-right racist. There really are anti-white people out there, and some of them are WHITE!

www.mrctv.org/blog/white-rutgers-professor-given-psychiatric-evaluation-after-threat-kill-whites

Heh, sixclaws, ya beat me!

Godwin's Law is being invoked by a lot of people this election season.

www.mrctv.org/blog/upworthy-writer-trump-not-taking-salary-means-he-s-hitler

Fucking Firefox always removes the http's.

http://www.mrctv.org/blog/white-rutgers-professor-given-psychiatric-evaluation-after-threat-kill-whites

And this:

http://www.mrctv.org/blog/upworthy-writer-trump-not-taking-salary-means-he-s-hitler