Crid, here's the cartoon you're looking for:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DGFHTSaWsAImonB.jpg

Female student: USC threatened me because I said my boyfriend didn’t beat me up http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/35082/

Call me Pickle! Because winning!

Snoopy, I don't think you're very bright.

You literally, literally can't make this up: Their venality exceeds the contemporary imagination.

Fuckin' New Mexico, man... Fuckin' West Virginia.

Obviously USC thought someone needed to beat her up. If her boyfriend wasn't willing then they would just have to step in and do it themselves.

And Crid, seriously? Get help man.

Poyg-nant.

Balko, balking. As well he ought.

I still have leftover energy to be furious about this, and will apparently need it.

C'mon... This is funny. Yes, it's vulgar, but c'mon.

Ben- Watch yer punctuation, Pilgrim.

More Mizzou misery.

Mizzou recently confirmed that Janna Basler, its former dean of student life, no longer works for the university, but spokespersons told Campus Reform that they are not allowed to comment on “why an employee leaves the university.”

Basler, notably, was filmed screaming at student photographer Tim Tai during the protests, even blocking him from photographing the uprising.

Although the reason for Basler’s departure is not certain, some have speculated that she was fired due to her involvement in the protests, while others have suggested that it was a result of several recent budget cuts that appear to be related to fallout from the protests.

http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9512

Seattle: unfriendly to the employable disabled?

Last week, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced a proposal to eliminate the city’s use of special certificates that allow companies to pay wages below the city’s $15 minimum wage. A city council vote is expected before the end of this year.

Who is affected by these certificates? Murray answers: “The point of our historic $15 minimum wage law was to build universal equality in Seattle. A loophole allowing subminimum wages for disabled workers has undermined that goal.”

In the name of social justice, Seattle plans to make workers with disabilities unemployable.

http://thefederalist.com/2017/07/31/name-social-justice-seattle-plans-make-disabled-people-unemployable/

Cosh says it's a good book.




Some last Moochery:

Scaramucci was fired around 9:30 a.m. Monday morning, 15 days before he was scheduled to officially begin the job...

If this West Wing were a cartoon, Mooch would’ve had little birds flying around his head.

> Snoopy, I don't think you're very bright.

You're not nearly as good as Trump is at insulting other people.

It's a gift, Hon, not an aspiration.

Joke, truth.

I don't know who this person is, but it would be kind of an achievement.

I'm blocked by Xeni Jardon, and totally cool with it. She was inexplicably cuntly to me one time. Like, outta the blue. I'd never heard of her.

Meanwhile.

Social constructs.

https://twitter.com/generibus/status/891728774013886464

Portends and omens?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/31/politics/north-korea-ejection-test-submarine-activity/index.html

The science behind Walmart's no melt ice cream:

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

It would have been hilarious if the retracted paper were about prostate surgery.

The Annals of Surgery has retracted a paper that used only male pronouns to describe surgeons following outcry from readers.

The journal plans to replace the article — a recent presidential address of the European Surgical Association — with a new version with more “gender inclusive language.”

http://retractionwatch.com/2017/07/24/following-uproar-surgery-journal-retracts-paper-male-pronouns/

Anyone wanna wager $5 on whether White House Chief of Staff Kelly, on his first day of work today, quits or is fired by 11:59pm PST on Thursday, August 31st, 2017?

Let me know. Maybe we cab let Amy hold the money.

Juh-hee-zus.

Kids, fashion is the enemy.

A Marie Claire feminist reviews Dunkirk and complains there are no women in it. That the movie is an unapologetic celebration of maleness.

And feminists (and Marie Claire) wonder why they are not take seriously. Well, ladies, this is why.

Having just finished re-reading Walter Lord's Miracle of Dunkirk, I don't remember any women being highlighted for playing a major role in that World War II battle.

This is for Coney.


This is for Amy.


Guys, yoo guyzzzz, who's your best imaginary internet blog buddy?

That's right! Little Ol' Uncle Cridmo!

Trump needs do do something: Academe is spinning out of control.

If David Lynch did The Jetsons.

Stolen from the comments:

Meet the Baron.
His foe, Maud'dib.
Daughter Jessy
Feyd, his Heir

Coney, see also.

Because of course this was bound to happen

The increased skepticism towards inoculating pets is likely the result of a national movement that claims vaccines can cause autism in children, according to the doctor, who said she has seen an increase in clients unwilling to have their dogs vaccinated in recent years. Core vaccines for canines include distemper, hepatitis, and rabies, which is required by law.

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/40/31/all-pet-anti-vaccination-movement-2017-08-04-bk.html

IRA regarding your minimum wage / disabled article.

Most of the people working for less than minimum wage arent physically disable people with masters degrees in computer programming

They are people with down syndrome, mental retardation, extreme neurological disorders - IE people who CAN NOT work regular jobs, who if they were to be paid minimum wage would be making so much money they would no longer qualify for free state housing or medical care under medicaid

Good.

Just another reason to boycott Hollywood:

Mark Ruffalo Says Maybe Preibus Will Be a Hero and Take Down Trump

Hysterical tweet.

Exposing the Flake.

Coney, see also. ~ Crid at August 1, 2017 3:05 PM

The thing about Schlesinger's great act of prudent patriotism is that the evidence for it is mostly, if not entirely, provided by Schlesinger himself.

It's a thrilling story: an out of control president on the eve of his own destruction lashes out to take the world with him and one man, putting loyalty to the country over loyalty to the president, stands athwart that ambition, heroically committing what could be considered an act of treason and saving the world from a renegade madman.

However, it pays to remember that Schlesinger was fired by at least two presidents, of different parties.

Schlesinger was a very smart man, and it is to him we owe a debt of gratitude for the A-10 and F-16 programs. But he was also arrogant and impatient with those who disagreed with him or questioned him. A such, he was "inept at dealing with Congress," according to a at least one journalist who dealt with him.

Yeah, but, c'mon, those things aren't evidentiary for the question either... He double salts his fries. And like the guy in the piece says, confessing to such interference was more more likely to do career damage than keeping the secret.

'Not evidentiary' meaning the firings, the arrogance and Congress.

...confessing to such interference was more more likely to do career damage than keeping the secret. ~ Crid at August 2, 2017 5:26 AM

I'm not so sure it was that potentially career damaging. After all, everybody "knew" Nixon was unstable. And extra-Constitutional steps taken by the Secretary of Defense to prevent an unstable president from unleashing a nuclear nightmare would be celebrated, not condemned.

Certainly it didn't hurt his immediate career, being appointed energy advisor and, later, Secretary of Energy by Jimmy Carter.

According to Washington Monthly, Schlesinger gave Carter inside information on his old boss, Ford, prior to the 1976 campaign debate, an act which seems to indicate that Schlesinger had no qualms about operating on the fringes of ethical behavior. Nor, apparently, did he worry about the impact his actions might have on future employability.

Besides, no evidence exists to prove Schlesinger issued the order he said he did. No memos, no testimony, nothing.