Rerun from yesterday, but I would seriously pitch in to buy him another one after the haughty way he turned away from the blowout at the end.

Yeah, he'd pop that one too, but it looked like good clean fun.

I like to quibble with Amy's cheery acceptance of prostitution as essentially private behavior. I've gotta coupla points that I deploy every time.

Mr. Coniglio just offered another. It's fantastic.

Wanted to say thanks to those of you who mentioned Dalrymple a couple weeks back. Not sure how he wasn’t on my radar.

Thanks.

Totally on board with #HeFree4Brie.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/380062.php

Is Nancy going to ask Will no one rid me of this turbulent congresswoman?

Ocasio-Cortez never disclosed to the FEC that she and Chakrabarti, who served as her campaign chair, controlled the PAC while it was simultaneously supporting her primary campaign, and former FEC commissioners say the arrangement could lead to multiple campaign finance violations.

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/03/04/ocasio-cortez-justice-democrats/

Is Nancy going to ask Will no one rid me of this turbulent congresswoman? ~ I R A Darth Aggie at March 5, 2019 7:02 AM

How do you know Nancy isn't the one who turned her in?

Nancy may be a doddering simpleton in her dotage, but she's a veteran political operator and still has a few tricks left up her sleeve, along with that Kleenex.

Guys, this is not going to go away.

I strongly, strongly urge consideration of Haidt & Lukianoff's book. I haven't even read it yet, but I've heard so many speeches and podcasts and interviews on planes and in cars that it's hard to imagine what's been left out.

If, even a month ago, you'd said there was a consequence of the smartphone revolution worse than the collapse of our privacy, I'd have snickered.

Feral intersectional liberals eat one of their own:

Wolves: A YA sensitivity reader watched his own community kill his debut novel before it was ever released.

Feral intersectional liberals eat one of their own

Not the first one this year, tho it one I'm thinking of may have been late last year.

Just when you thought everything was terrible.

https://www.app.com/story/news/local/morris-county/2019/03/04/parsippany-hs-students-shovel-out-neighbor-who-needed-get-dialysis/3059970002/

The conservative side of the LGBT Methodist debate:

The United Methodists Just Dodged A Kill Shot By Reaffirming God’s Design For Sex

Not quite a "come and take it", but it is a good response.

https://www.redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2019/03/04/martina-learns-nothing-short-total-surrender-will-appease-transgender-activists/

I thought fat chicks were part and parcel of a rapper's life? but I'm pretty sure that being large isn't a protected class, so...

Noticeably perplexed, she told her followers, “I’m just trying to understand really why this is a thing. Why is he allowed to put those rules in place…the discrimination is insane to me.” Adding that she doesn’t doesn’t give a damn about a rapper, Naomie said “It’s the fact that it’s a thing in 2019 where we can say no fatties on the club” that upset her.

https://madamenoire.com/1062885/future-allegedly-told-south-beach-club-not-to-allow-fat-girls-inside/

The United Methodists Just Dodged A Kill Shot By Reaffirming God’s Design For Sex

Yeah, maybe. The thing is, tho, that the United Methodists who were in favor of passing the resolution that got voted down will be peeling off into a new organization.

Conversely, had they won, then the conservative portions would have been peeling off into a new organization.

I'll leave it to St. Johnny:

I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

I didn't see this coming.

When Google conducted a study recently to determine whether the company was underpaying women and members of minority groups, it found, to the surprise of just about everyone, that men were paid less money than women for doing similar work.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/technology/google-gender-pay-gap.html

Children have not been a part of my adult life (and thank you, Beneficent Creator).

So this will not surprise others, but I was impressed with how well the relative competence of these two little girls demonstrate this rhetorical point from Haidt (give it a minute and a half).

Daylight.

> still has a few tricks left
> up her sleeve

Dunno. One thing that AOC has going for her is that she's categorically crackers, as is the electorate of her contemporaries.

Not sure Nancy can deal with a voting block that isn't merely self-centered and inured to corruption.

But I sincerely appreciate your cynicism. This will be fun to watch.

Dunno. One thing that AOC has going for her is that she's categorically crackers, as is the electorate of her contemporaries.
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Trouble is, so are many of the older GOP politicians - and somehow, they stay in power.

https://www.thenation.com/article/aoc-republicans-lies-climate/

Excerpt:

...I don’t deny that Ocasio-Cortez has made some slips: The Washington Post’s Fact Checker column has given her four Pinocchios, and CNN’s Chris Cillizza has lectured her for erroneously claiming that Pentagon accounting errors could pay for two-thirds of Medicare for All. Politifact said she was wrong, too, when she claimed that today’s low unemployment rate was due to people working multiple jobs; that Lucy McBath was outspent five to one by Karen Handel in their race for a Georgia congressional seat; and that the Pentagon received $700 billion it didn’t even ask for.

Whether it’s carelessness or simply reaching too quickly for numbers to validate what are essentially moral arguments—things most of us have done at one time or another—Ocasio-Cortez needs to be extra precise, since being a leftist and a woman of color invites special scrutiny. Even Whoopi Goldberg, who has been known to shoot off her mouth, advises her to “sit still for a minute and learn the job.”

Meanwhile, plenty of Republican officials make her hazy math look positively Newtonian...

(snip)

And yet you spoke of older Republicans rather than of Pelosi, the decrepit politician under discussion, and essentially Washington's standard-bearer for duplicity.

I just hate the left. They're lazy, obtuse, chickenshit and unkind. This shimmering young woman is finest distillation humanity could imagine.

Okay, that comment may have been a little thoughtless and intemperate.

But still.