Shopping.

And a rerun from yesterday, gamesmanship.

The thinks this is true. It's a thing that he said.

moar vr

Maybe someone at Vice was jealous of her

https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/981012912419389440

Do you suppose the Orange Eminence has thought about this before picking a pissfight with Bezos (who is, after all, a successful businessman)?

Do you suppose the Orange Eminence has thought about this before picking a pissfight with Bezos (who is, after all, a successful businessman)?

You can come as close as possible to experiencing that culture by viewing, and downloading, more than 2,500 Japanese woodblock prints and drawings at the Library of Congress' online collection "Fine Prints: Japanese, pre-1915."

https://twitter.com/openculture/status/981695031261253632

Do you suppose the Orange Eminence has thought about this before picking a pissfight with Bezos (who is, after all, a successful businessman)? ~ Crid at April 5, 2018 5:59 AM

Here's an interesting viewpoint on Trump vs. Amazon and the impact of virtual vs. local.

South China Morning Post editorial that says Trump may be smarter than we think when it comes to Asia.

I love this recursive memery.

A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Sales Go Up: Cereal Makers Return to the Sweet Stuff

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-spoonful-of-sugar-helps-the-sales-go-up-cereal-makers-return-to-the-sweet-stuff-1522937066

Going healthy didn’t work. To get consumers to eat cereal amid declining sales, big food companies are doubling down on sugary goodness.

Sorry for the walled link. But what I posted is most of the story. And perhaps 'healthy' cereals didn't work because it is pretty much impossible to make cereal healthy. Remember that tag line 'as part of this healthy breakfast' in so many cereal commercials.
Well, you can eliminate the cereal and lose nothing. Anyone who is actually interested in a healthy breakfast has dropped cereal. May as well try selling dry water.

Kimmel's tolerance deficit.

I’m an immigrant, I came to the U.S. as a child from the Soviet Union and I frequently get these kinds of attacks from the left when I write something with which they disagree. “Go back to where you came from” is standard. As I said, this kind of othering is only OK when aimed at immigrants for whom the left has no need.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/04/03/jimmy-kimmel-s-attack-on-melania-trump-is-despicable-and-wouldn-t-be-tolerated-for-any-other-immigrant.html

Dear God, how many Logical Fallacies did this user managed to cram?

[quote]A bias for what ... "Not killing people"?

Neutral journalism is increasingly becoming a problem because it leaves space to opinions and and views which do not deserve it.

There is no need to be neutral about murder, climate change, homoeopathy, religious outrage and similar topics. Lending space or "neutral stance" or "fairness" for these things is nonsensical. It creates the illusion that these topics deserve a neutral stance - which they don't.

Extreme views thrive on this "neutral stance". It is the very fuel used (and abused) by Fox News and their kind. I don't need it here in Ars.

If we're "neutral" about murder, why not be neutral about homeopathy and all these other stupid ideas as well? And where does it stop?[/quote]

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/04/how-youtubes-adpocalypse-may-have-figured-in-its-tuesday-campus-shooting/?comments=1&post=35103611

@Ben,

This site skips the WSJs Paywall

http://archive.is/DnXIS

Thanks Sixclaws. As I said there wasn't much to it. All cereal sales are down but 'healthy' cereals are down more. From what I can tell from my personal life that is because even healthy cereals aren't really healthy. So if you want healthier food you aren't eating cereal.

The Tangerine Dream-ish score to John Wick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgLpX_diKv0

21. Warehouse Smack Down - Tyler Bates, Joel J. Richard

Both the movie and score had high entertainment values for me: high energy and a lot of well written action music, guitar, electronica and energy. And that percussion, it’s golden.

Bates & Richard are having fun with experimenting on a high energy mix of orchestral music, electronica and rock that much is clear.

Blue wave coming in a red state -

https://www.conservativereview.com/articles/shock-poll-democrat-holds-10-point-lead-tennessee-senate-matchup/

Chick pretends to like nerd, then dumps him -

https://www.thewrap.com/kevin-williamson-fired-atlantic-abortion-podcast-conservative-commentator/

“A group that is suing Harvard University is demanding that it publicly release admissions data on hundreds of thousands of applicants, saying the records show a pattern of discrimination against Asian-Americans going back decades.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/us/harvard-asian-admission.html

Funny stuff -

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DZ2z-LCX0AUHfwI.jpg:large

[blockquote]“A group that is suing Harvard University is demanding that it publicly release admissions data on hundreds of thousands of applicants, saying the records show a pattern of discrimination against Asian-Americans going back decades.”[/blockquote]

Pictured here. Is an artistic interpretation of what the other Ivy League universities are doing with the rejected admission papers upon hearing of this lawsuit.

https://i.imgur.com/joMnt8D.png

The case for sustainable meat

http://quillette.com/2018/04/05/case-sustainable-meat/

It’s time for ordinary women to take a stand against those who claim to speak in our name. Contemporary feminists portray women as victims, when in fact most of us feel more empowered than ever. As the Restaurant Workers of America proved this past week, women aren’t charity cases. We don’t need Sarah Jessica Parker to save us. The message working-class women are sending to feminists is clear: back off.

http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/more-women-should-revolt-against-saviour-feminism/21275#.WsXPpNPwbOQ

Coulda sworn it was in color... They were absolutely stunning in all the different hues, with a phalanx of children charging eagerly.

Sorry, threadgoof

Heard about Atlantic writer Kevin Williamson?

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=RbnGWqPZF6qC5wLv5I7YAg&q=%22kevin+williamson%22+hanged&oq=%22kevin+williamson%22+hanged&gs_l=psy-ab.3...843.7686.0.7903.15.14.0.0.0.0.107.830.13j1.14.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..1.0.0.0...0.YlNQR0seaXA

If you haven't, he got fired, mainly for saying that women who have abortions should get punished - by hanging, for one.

Wonder if he'd say that about his own daughter, if he had one?

For that matter, if you had a brilliant, college-bound sister, daughter, or granddaughter who said she was pregnant and was planning on getting an abortion, would you really try to stop her from getting RU-486, which can only be used up to 9 weeks after a woman's last period? (For those who don't know, that's typically only 7 weeks of pregnancy.) After all, there are good reasons single women typically don't choose adoption anymore when FORCED to give birth.

Wittily enough, Amanda Marcotte wrote:

"Faced down with the toxic accusation that they are waging 'war on women,' anti-abortion activists try to have it both ways, arguing that abortion should be banned because it's 'murder' and that women getting an abortion should be 'protected.'

"Kudos to Kevin Williamson for telling the truth and abandoning the futile effort to ignore the contradiction."

Amanda Marcotte has never in her life been witty, let alone witty "enough."

The left, and other idiot darlings, are both simple-minded and lonely for the adoration of those who know better: They can't handle irony in rhetoric.

We, and Williamson, need not indulge their timidity.

Kay.

An appealing perspective from one of our most impeached Presidents.

Don't have a Twitter account to peek at the replies? No problem.

Use this:

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=from%3APOTUS&src=typd

Replace POTUS with the Twitter handle of your choice to watch the tweets and the replies.

An appealing perspective from one of our most impeached Presidents. ~ Crid at April 5, 2018 8:52 PM

Most impeached? Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were the only two American presidents ever impeached, and each of them only once.

Most impeachable? There's a good argument for that.

Also, RMN is dead. So, unless Twitter has found a way to pierce the veil, this Twitter account is not actually expressing the opinions of our 37th president.

And, yes, I agree. Who cares?

A liberal publication fired its token conservative for saying mean things about modern liberalism's most sacred of institutions, abortion. Nothing to see here. Just business as usual.

This is why we are so divided today. Ideology-driven outlets hire someone from the other side of the aisle to show they're not an ideology-driven outlet and then react violently when that person speaks a viewpoint not in lockstep with the majority of the outlet and its ideological staff.

Did The Atlantic not read Kevin Williamson's columns and tweets before hiring him? Were they somehow not aware he was stridently anti-abortion, despite his many comments and columns on the subject?

And are they not aware that his simply not toeing the liberal line does not make him "conservative?"

An intelligent give and take is not the hallmark of our political discourse today, especially when the topic is abortion.

> only two American presidents
> ever impeached

He was still more impeached than, say, James Buchanan. Besides, it was a joke. The whole twitter account is a joke.

> not read Kevin Williamson's
> columns and tweets before
> hiring him?

The same folks are always upset when a new Pope turns out to be Catholic after a promising first week....

He was still more impeached than, say, James Buchanan. ~ Crid at April 6, 2018 6:47 AM

True, three articles of impeachment against Nixon were approved by committee and referred to the full House for a vote. He resigned before that vote.

The articles of impeachment against Donald Trump have so far died in committee. Efforts to impeach Barak Obama never got any traction. And the articles of impeachment against George W. Bush were referred to committee where they died.

So, Nixon currently ranks third in the impeachment olympics. Given our current and probable future acrimonious political climate, I expect him to fade in the stretch as each party attempts coup after coup to overturn elections they don't like.