Can anyone on the planet believe that this is our first bi senator? And can anyone care?

Good Q piece on narcissism.

Well, I thought it was good....

Having listened to the Louis CK bootleg a couple of times, I have some thoughts.

1. It's his typically good material all the way through the birthday joke... Which is most of the way home. Given how he builds his sets, no one could pretend this recording is anything but a work in progress.

1(a). But I think it's a strong work in progress, as good as any of his specials that I've seen. The only special I didn't like was the Netflix one released shortly before the scandal— It was joyless because he seemed so eager to be admirably woke and morally instructive. Therefore…

3. It's possible that by liberating CK from the need (and possibility) to convince people think he's a sweet 'n compassionate guy, this crisis might allow the strongest stand-up comedian of the past ten or twenty years to get back to the business of being funny. (If only for his audience which enjoyed his tasteless stuff, as I did, before the social media/social justice frenzy did so much damage to our culture. (See Haidt and Lukianoff.)

That'd be great. Stand-up comedy's turned to shit lately because of the clucking SJWs. It's worth restoring. Seinfeld's old and maybe the kids wouldn't care, but even Chris Rock's afraid to do college dates.

4. Here's the thing: What CK did was creepy, but I'd bet the intimate behavior of everyone reading these words would seem creepy if I knew about it. His misbehavior didn't involve me, so maybe it's not my place to forgive him for it. Presumably the women he pestered have had their chance to sue him or confront him as needed. Are we done here? The scandal cost him tens of millions of dollars. And every time he goes to a cocktail party for the rest of his life, people will be making smirky jokes to him, the way they do for Hugh Grant.

I'm about 84% sure this would be a general social good. The bigger scalping of the MeToo movement would not be threatened… Such career restoration will be rightfully unavailable to Harvey Weinstein and Bob Iger and Prairie Home Companion Guy.

Whaddya say?

Remember, nobody's forcing you to go to any comedy show that isn't to your taste.

She can see up to 100 million colors, a hundred times more than the average human. She is a tetrachromat: a person with four (instead of three) photoceptors in their retinas, thus possessing hypercharged color perception.

For some reason, the software won't let me post the link for the above quote...

The Neuroscience of Creativity: A Q & A with Anna Abraham

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-neuroscience-of-creativity-a-q-a-with-anna-abraham/

Publishers are adding 'morality clauses' to book deals allowing them to back out of contracts if writers turn out not to be virtuous -

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/04/opinion/sunday/metoo-new-yorker-conde-nast.html

Publishers are adding 'morality clauses' to book deals allowing them to back out of contracts if writers turn out not to be virtuous ~ Snoopy at January 6, 2019 5:32 AM

Who on earth wants to read a book by a virtuous author?

Hemingway and Faulkner drank. Fitzgerald was nuts. Bukowski? Well, don't get me started there. Seriously, even Laura Ingalls Wilder stole Indian land.

Publishers are adding 'morality clauses' to book deals allowing them to back out of contracts if writers turn out not to be virtuous ~ Snoopy at January 6, 2019 5:32 AM

Who on earth wants to read a book by a virtuous author?

Hemingway and Faulkner drank. Fitzgerald and Salinger were nuts. Bukowski? Well, don't get me started there. Seriously, even Laura Ingalls Wilder stole Indian land.

Sorry for the double post - my wife's computer crapped out and I had to duck away to effect a repair. What step in the submission process I was on got lost in the confusion.

Seriously, don't buy an Acer Aspire R laptop/tablet. Worthless piece of junk.

Thread with lots of videos from Gilets Jaunes protests in France -

https://twitter.com/ohboywhatashot/status/1081901823542415360

loving that death metal granny and the narcissim article! Thanks!

In an instant I wasn't a dad: Wife is forced to pay husband £250,000 for 'tricking' him into believing three sons were his for 21 years after doctor told him he had been infertile since birth

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6561079/Millionaire-reveals-moment-doctor-told-father-three-adored-boys.html

That ship might have sailed...

All of which is to say to women: Be careful what you wish for.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/women-out-earning-men-is-a-bigger-problem-than-you-think

Higher Ed bubble. Will half of all colleges be merged or put out of business in the next decade?

But the truth of the matter is that disruptive innovation is only part of why Christensen originally made his prediction.

The prediction arose out of an observation that the business model of traditional colleges and universities was broken.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelhorn/2018/12/13/will-half-of-all-colleges-really-close-in-the-next-decade/

Hot for teacher?

https://www.barstoolsports.com/boston/2018-sex-scandal-teacher-starting-lineup/

All of which is to say to women: Be careful what you wish for. ~ I R A Darth Aggie at January 6, 2019 9:42 AM

There was an article in a fairly major publication several years ago in which women who were the breadwinners in the family were interviewed.

Most of them reported being unhappy with the role of breadwinner. The stress of worrying about losing their jobs was taking its toll. Several reported being less attracted to their non-breadwinning husbands. And more than a few reported resenting their stay-at-home husbands when those husbands showed skill at childrearing, feeling that the mother should be the nurturing parent; that the nurturing role had been stolen from them.

This latest article shows that things have not changed since then. Women want to have it all, that is, until they get it all.

> In an instant

Conniving hussies who want you dead in a war!

Your planet is just endlessly threatening.

To you especially, for some reason. It seems.

> Conniving hussies....
> To you especially, for some reason

Nah, I've had my kids paternity tested.

The Snoopy line will continue long after you're no longer around.

The future belongs to those who show up.

> Nah, I've had my kids
> paternity tested.

Given your detachment, the need for you to do this does not surprise. (They want you dead, after all!) The most flattering moment in your wife's life, we are certain. It's lessons like those by which the children will acclimate to the workings of intimacy and continue "the Snoopy line." Your cunning —and your adoration of basic cable— will protect you.





Meanwhile, you affirm that the Orange Shitweasel has already built the wall, so everything's under control.

> who want you dead

American Psychological Association just issued guidelines pathologizing traditional masculinity

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2019/01/ce-corner.aspx

"traditional masculinity — marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression — is, on the whole, harmful"

They hate us and want us gone.

> basic cable

I don't know anyone over the age of 40 who still has that, old man. My kids have never had it, nor have most or all of their friends.

> in a war!

"Man shall be trained for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly"

> the need for you to do this does not surprise.

It could be the ultimate fraud. Across Britain, thousands of men are likely to be raising children that they have been tricked into believing are theirs, when they were really fathered by another man.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/relationships/fatherhood/11839479/Should-we-be-doing-more-to-expose-paternity-fraud.html

Did you go to high school?

> Did you go to high school?

Nah, I went straight to college after Kindergarten.

Trump's 2018 Deregulatory Effort: 3,367 Rules, 68,082 Pages

https://cei.org/blog/trumps-2018-deregulatory-effort-3367-rules-68082-pages

I'll bet Faulkner was a blast to hang out with. A while back, I read The Reivers, just for the heck of it. The impression I got throughout from the author was: There's a really good joke that I'll let you in on, if you'll pay attention for a bit.