The Afghani ambassador to the USofA:

Trump would listen intently after each question, often asking follow-ups. Trump's second call with our president was even longer than the first. Asking these types of questions for our country is something the Obama administration never did. The Obama administration was the most academic administration we have ever had to deal with but the Trump administration has been the most thoughtful and intelligent.

http://ijr.com/2017/03/822619-i-had-dinner-with-the-afghanistan-ambassador-what-he-said-about-the-differences-between-trump-obama-is-stunning/

Because bananas.

Bananas are useful for these measures because bananas concentrate potassium, and a certain amount of that potassium is ⁴⁰K, which is naturally radioactive. The superscript "40" there is the atomic number, or the number of protons in the nucleus, of that particular potassium (symbol K) isotope. Because of that potassium content, bananas are mildly radioactive: a medium banana at around 150g emits about 1 micro-Sievert per hour (1 µSv/hr) and contains about 15 Becquerel (15 Bq) of radioactive material.

(Why bananas? There are a lot of plant-based foods that concentrate potassium. It is, however, an essential rule of humor that bananas are the funniest fruit.)

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/03/12/radiation-reporters-go-bananas/

Man shows his wiener at a feminist rally.

https://www.facebook.com/Liberalum/videos/740200596128641/

And the crowd goes crazy.

No, sorry, you aren’t a resistance, because USA is not a dictatorship. Nobody is persecuting you; none of your rights are being violated; no illegal purges enacted; no tortures and disappearances. You didn’t like the results of an election – and want to pretend it is illegitimate, because you don’t want to do the hard work of rebuilding a constituency alienated, “Because you thought correcting people’s attitudes was more important than finding them jobs. Because you turned ‘white man’ from a description into an insult (…) Because you cried when someone mocked the Koran but laughed when they mocked the Bible. (…) Because you kept telling people, ‘You can’t think that, you can’t say that, you can’t do that’,” as Brendan O’Neill has said. Alas, the only people losing their legitimacy are you; who wear little pink hats and take off all your clothes and wander through public spaces offending friend and foe alike; who vandalize coffee shops and write little slogans misspelled on cardboard. No, you aren’t a resistance, and you don’t get to have that word.

https://joelhirst.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/sorry-youre-not-a-resistance/

Farrar asserts this is intended as a response to a bill passed in 2011 that required any women seeking an abortion to first undergo a sonogram to see the baby before making a final decision. Other states, like Virginia, have a similar law.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/13/texas-could-make-masturbation-illegal/

They should make a law against hyperbole.

Heh:

https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/840965422446960640

Maybe they're against carbohydrates or something..

https://mobile.twitter.com/Gryffix/status/840916805552082946

They should make a law against hyperbole.
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And why?

Got a problem with satire as an attention-getting device? Or the 1st Amendment?

Btw, Michael Moore had a satirical piece in his book "Downsize This" on the evils of destroying life through masturbation - and the fundie he interviewed on the phone, IIRC, didn't exactly disagree with the idea.

Not to mention that even if a woman is lucky enough not to have run a gauntlet when she gets an abortion, it's still a pretty humiliating invasion of her emotional privacy to have to talk to strangers about it - never mind the physical aspect, OR what the real laws demand in Texas and elsewhere, as was made clear at the end.

"Students find their superpower, but how to use it?"

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/columns/2017/03/10/students-find-their-superpower-but-how-use/8O8CNkgXaVBAqOtgIhQK0M/story.html#comments

By Renée Graham

First paragraphs:

There’s a moment in the first “Spider-Man” movie when milquetoast high school student Peter Parker realizes that, after being bitten by a radioactive spider, he now possesses superhuman powers. With his new strength, he sends a bully careening through the air with a single punch. He finds that he can scale walls, and with his web-shooting ability, he swings high above the cacophony of the city’s streets.

Just as he believes he has mastered it, he crashes into a brick wall.

I often think of that scene when I hear about protests on college campuses pitting students against right-wing speakers. When you are a young person, perhaps finding your voice for the first time, protesting is like discovering your own superpower. And like the tough lesson Parker gains from his face-plant, students need to learn how best to harness their power so that things don’t go horribly awry.

That’s what happened recently at Middlebury College in Vermont...

...In these uneasy times, the protests will certainly continue; the violence that allows those who spew hate speech to claim a moral high ground as aggrieved and oppressed must not. Let them have their free speech, but dissect it with unassailable facts to destroy their skewed racist theories...

(snip)

I loved her workplace anecdote, too.

SPOILER (in my words):

No, there never WAS a time when every single student - or adult - had the right to free speech. As Miss Manners has said many times, all adults now have the right to free speech, but they also now have the obligation to use it in a civilized manner - an obligation that white people didn't used to have, exactly. (How we impose that obligation is still up for debate, clearly.)

Poop toots are always funnier when they happen to someone (anyone) else.

https://pjmedia.com/parenting/2017/03/12/the-stomach-flu-road-trip-from-hell/

I was told those were "electric farts", because there's some juice involved...

Just to be clear, for anyone who didn't read Graham's column: She is NOT the actress!

"Are Your Sperm in Trouble?"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/opinion/sunday/are-your-sperm-in-trouble.html?_r=0

And to think that highly educated people I know don't understand why plastics shouldn't go in the garbage, if possible - or why your old medications shouldn't be flushed down the toilet...or why shopping for the sake of shopping just might be a bad idea.

One day, defective sperm might lead to a whole new host of birth defects. If it hasn't already.

I should have been more clear (yay for having zero-attention span) about it. I meant it for legislators,
stuff gets taken out of context with such ease that whatever message is meant to actually be, it is drowned by the louder choir of mockery that envelops it.

Bros4Hillary fellas wept "tears of grief and rage" and now insist the loss was the fault of everyone and everything except their candidate, Hillary "Put The Cash In The Bag" Clinton.

"Allowing revisionists to shape the narrative and lay fault at the feet of Hillary Clinton for losing, whether expressly or impliedly, is a historic injustice that, if allowed to continue, only hurts us as a nation and as a democracy."

He goes on like this for many, many paragraphs, not once admitting that HRH HRC drove 50 million Democrats AWAY from the polls. Come to think of it, so did Trump. Typical remedies are demanded, i.e. "fixing" the Electoral College. You know, like fixing an election ...

Link for those who can stomach the whining.

Three more men have been arrested on suspicion of the brutal murder of a Brazilian trans woman who begged for her life before being beaten to death in a shocking online video. Dandara dos Santos, 42, was taken from her home, beaten, stripped and thrown in a wheelbarrow before being taken away to be killed by a gang of six men.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/03/13/eight-arrested-after-viral-video-of-brutally-murdered-trans-woman-causes-outrage/

Boy, that Orange Trump feller's a total dreamboat, ain't 'e?

Yep, rilly takin' care o' bizniss.

I wholeheartedly reject this sanctimony as I would any other.

It is flatly not true that—

All violence is a breakdown of communication.

No: Sometimes violence is violence. It's a feminine and ludicrous presumption that all human conduct is "communication." Our lives are made with deeds as well as words.

This is not Planet Oprah, Professor, and you have no special insight about the interior lives of others.

@Crid re: the dreamboat-in-chief tweet:

"While you were tweeting about the Deep State, Trump gave the CIA power to launch its own drone strikes"

It's about time the CIA was freed from the shackles of societal norms.

Perhaps Trump doesn't want to have a mind-blowing experience with the CIA.

Okay, that was in bad taste. Sorry.

Government shouldn't kill people by remote control, off the books, in our name.

How long until state agencies have that authority? Have some been asking for it already?

According to Balko, there are eighteen thousand law enforcement agencies in the United States.

I doubt any of them haven't deeply fantasized about jerking the Big Joystick.

Don't be surprised if someone is already planning/doing a test run. And with so many cases of drug abuse in Rural America? No one's going to notice until The Future of law enforcement is here.

"One day, defective sperm might lead to a whole new host of birth defects. If it hasn't already."

It has. Whence the "special snowflakes"?

"Government shouldn't kill people by remote control, off the books, in our name."

Two years ago Obama's drones had killed 2,500 people. Two years ago. I haven't found the total for his eight years of roboticized slaughter.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=obama+drone+kills+total&t=ha&ia=web

Trump's election is a reaction to Hillary's candidacy, nothing more. Don't look to him for leadership, he's going to shoot from the hip.

And from the sky. But consider that both Obama and Clinton loved them drones and ask yourself what would have changed if HRH HRC had won?

I have to be a realist and conclude that nothing would have changed, and in fact Hillary would have continued the bloodbath. Her history is the evidence.

Cut that out Gog. You are making too much sense. Get back on your crazy pills post stat. I can't be the only nut around.

As for what would be different if HRC was in charge? You wouldn't read about it in the press. After all it wouldn't help the 'narrative'.

It has. Whence the "special snowflakes"?

Radwaste at March 14, 2017 1:24 PM

Funny, I thought pretty much everyone who uses that term believes it's a matter of bad parenting - i.e., spoiling. C.S. Lewis certainly thought so - and yes, even in his day, whiners and bullies were often not firmly put in their place.