Animated brand rankings.

A good Haidt lecture, about five years old. HIGHLY recommended. It's got candy sprinkled throughout.

It'd be wrong to say he snuck up on us, as his name has been appearing a couple time a year for a decade, but this is turning into a really impressive body of work.






And this is me during my lunch break.

Twitter tales of pathos.

Hollywood house pet.

Also, the Haidt lecture starts at 11 minutes. I shoulda said that. Sorry.

I shoulda saidt that.

Kliph Twitter re: Tork—

I'd forgotten the car.

Nesmith's body language conveys prostration to a genuine talent. (A left-handed player is handicapped with a right-handed instrument, yet the party is no less impressed.)

It's a Great Day for Hockey - Badger Bob Johnson

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/02/21/miracle-on-ice-39-year-anniversary/

Ah, our well educated youngsters. I'm surprised WaPo called them "jerk punks".

“This is not a Civil War museum and this is not Robert E. Lee,” Mark Johnson, the curator for the Maj. Gen. William C. Lee Airborne Museum, told WNCN on Tuesday. “This is General William C. Lee from United States Army Airborne from World War II.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/02/21/jerk-punks-torched-statue-general-lee-it-honors-wwii-veteran-not-confederate-leader/?utm_term=.1f0984f0e300

Nesmith's body language conveys prostration to a genuine talent. (A left-handed player is handicapped with a right-handed instrument, yet the party is no less impressed.) ~ Crid at February 22, 2019 6:10 AM

That Hendrix was a "guest" at Monkees' concert is backwards. But it was Jacksonville, so....

Well, yes. The pieties of the woke-lings are nakedly ill-intended. It’s a malevolent little drama. But then, being woke is the latest excuse for archetypal mean girl behaviour, which may explain why “social justice” posturing attracts so many women. It’s the fashionable, statusful way to be an utter bitch. Though instead of picking on someone for having unfashionable shoes or the wrong kind of bag, they’ve seized on someone’s enthusiasm, their moment of joy, and done their damnedest to sour it.

From David Thompson's take on the latest SJW outrage, which seems to involve, of all things, knitting. Indeed, stay for the comments; Thompson's commentariat is one of the better ones I've seen.

> It's a Great Day

When that happened Al Michaels' career had just started and I thought he was a punk undeserving of the microphone at so many prominent sports events.

But now, as he whishills through hish denshers at the sunset of his career, I'm offended by the punks who'd take his place.

This podcast has a bunch of his remembrances of seeing incredible stuff. Also.

Sports television: Current events with the Round Mound.

Sports television: Current events with the Round Mound.

"...should have gone to Liam Neesom's neighborhood..."

*snork* A twofer, Sir Charles, well done.

But now, as he whishills through hish denshers at the sunset of his career, I'm offended by the punks who'd take his place.

I remember him calling Cincinnati Reds games long ago, when I was a little kid.

He talks about it in one of those podcasts. Like Tork, all these guys are not young anymore and it's weird to suddenly seem them as old men (and to be seen as one oneself.)

Well, get back to us when your balls have dropped and you can shave, and, ummm, not defecate yourself if someone hands you a loaded firearm.

On the bright side, when he gets sent to prison, his mom can rent out the basement.

Washington man arrested after allegedly vowing sheriffs who oppose gun control law, "will be shot, by me"

https://twitter.com/CamEdwards/status/1098707840917749761

Twitter sarcasm.

But elsewhere in the city, some people are taking note, particularly those who work for the government, public institutions and state-owned companies.

In the lobby of Rongcheng People’s Hospital, senior staff member Wang Shuhong said she drove more carefully now because traffic infringements cost not just money but also social credit points.

“Many from the general public may not know about it, but we public servants do know. It does have a binding effect on us,” she said.
According to Wang, applicants must have a ranking of A or above to be hired for permanent positions at public institutions. For contractors, such as security guards, B is a minimum.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2185303/hi-tech-dystopia-or-low-key-incentive-scheme-complex-reality

"Like Tork, all these guys are not young anymore and it's weird to suddenly seem them as old men (and to be seen as one oneself.)"

Yes. It pains me greatly that Tony Banks can no longer play keyboards because of arthritis in his hands.

> Banks can no longer play

Hadn't heard, that's very sad.

They were never my cup of tea, with perhaps an exception for one particular submix. But the penultimate line from Cosh here really hits the spot.

A dear woman took me to see the Stones in 2002. They wore wigs. For the opening numbers (only), the younger accompanists were kept behind the amp line (though in plain sight to most of us in Staples)… They looked like they were really, really trying to get into Grampas music. Bless their hearts.

Guru Goes Gaga Giving Greasy Girl Gooey Grope

Guru's mom resigns as CEO of #metoo.

I think the real news here is that #metoo generates enough outrage cash that they need a CEO.

Pot. Kettle. Hoisted petards and all that.

She stood by her son. I mean, not much choice for her, but she'll always be able to say that.

Tick Tick Tick

(Ridicule if you must, but one day you too will absorb this pattern into your web browsing.)

So anyway, I found what I was looking for, something for which sensitivities have been freshly nourished by the Haidt lecture linked above:

“While I was growing up,” Bowden wrote, “my mom was too busy working to be present with my creations and my dad wasn’t there.​”

But still.

Lotusland is gorgeous, even in climatic weirdness.

"It pains me greatly that Tony Banks can no longer play keyboards because of arthritis in his hands."

Ditto for Neil Peart & drums.

Revisited: Pot. Kettle. Hoisted petards and all that.

USA Today goes on a witch hunt, discovers they're the witch.

Twitter— This guy.