If you guys who have kids could give a reading on this that'd be great kthxbye

• Anyone seen Cousin Dave yet?

• Lenona, you were talking about Maher the other day, and I agree with you-- He has a few clear thoughts about what he sees, but the problem is that he's never let that interfere with saying the trite, lefty things. It's showbiz, after all, and being popular is his business. Jon Stewart seemed even less principled.

I'm only three years younger. In the early naughts, Maher was dating a smokeshow of a makeup artist from one of the Hollywood tabloid shows I worked at, a tall, slender brunette with a sneaky smile, about 25 years old. Despite sincere effort, it was impossible to feel resentment: If I could have, I would have too.

His interview with Rogan a few months ago was pretty good, with some surprising glimpses of integrity. (He thinks internet porn in out of control and speaks with considerable passion about it, for being child-free.)

Similarly-- I always liked Dennis Miller's comedy more than it deserved, given the transparent mechanics of his delivery and his reliance on more-talented writers. But I liked him in this Shapiro interview. He's graceful about falling out of the limelight for senioriaty, and admits that his only real gift as a comedian was "a fast hard drive."

If you guys who have kids could give a reading on this that'd be great kthxbye

Crid at June 21, 2020 12:53 AM

The theory is babies will naturally hold their breath and paddle when tossed in the water. It is an instinctual thing. I think it is water babies early swimming training . I hear it works.

Never brave enough to try it with my kids, and don’t know if it was a thing yet when they were infants, but did do something similar with our son.

Bought the daughter a bike at four and was teaching her to ride it. The son, two was desperate to ride the bike as well. So we put him on it, no training wheels, and off he went. He had no fear and an innate sense of balance. Took him a day to learn how to pedal. He doesn’t remember learning how to ride. It is like he always knew.

Thanks, Isab. As usual, Twitter won't function unless one has quite a bit of time on one's hands. So I gave up with the video. I couldn't even get the back arrow to function.

At any rate, I'd already seen a TV news story on infant swimming classes, many years ago. Except that the infant was fully clothed. They said that was because when children drown in pools, it's very often when they ARE fully clothed, so that's part of the "training."

Oh, and Amy, that's interesting. I'd always heard it was the Druids who controlled the weather. Never anyone else - aside from witches, I suppose.

He doesn’t remember learning how to ride. It is like he always knew.

Remember all those kicks he gave you? training, just training.

Really didn't see this coming, tho in hindsight I should have.

The woman who is wanted for setting fire to a Wendy's in Atlanta after the fatal police shooting of Rayshard Brooks last week may be his girlfriend.

Investigators said Saturday they have issued an arrest warrant for 29-year-old Natalie White.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8443103/Woman-wanted-Atlanta-Wendys-burns-shooting-protest.html

I can't believe nobody's blaming George W. Bush for the weather.

"How quickly they forget." - every pol ever, promising the same thing for the umpteenth time

You'll have to scroll down quite a way to find this gem, posted by the National Park Service:

Bathrooms supplies may not available here. Please check the roll before you commit.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/06/the-week-in-pictures-all-that-chaz-edition.php

It's been a little while since they promised a chicken in every pot. Tho that may make a come back.

The theory is babies will naturally hold their breath and paddle when tossed in the water. It is an instinctual thing. I think it is water babies early swimming training . I hear it works.

I have a brother-in-law who did that with his children. They'd been taught to right themselves in the water and stay afloat.

He'd visit his mother in the old folks complex with his family and toss his daughter into the pool just for the shocked reactions he'd get from the octogenarians sitting around the pool..

Btw, Conan, thanks for the Mark Twain quotation - plus your own remarks in that June 20 post - in the other thread.

And if anyone thinks Twain was too harsh in his thinking, well, you probably never heard what the late Harold Bloom said - that even people who READ a certain author's books (and many other books, no doubt) are no better off than those who don't read at all. Now THAT's bad snobbery. (Examples of good snobbery might be "literacy is better than illiteracy" or "facts are more important than feelings.")

Honey, I ain't buyin' you that.

Kid, that ain't no way to have fun.

If Trump behaved like Obama:

https://twitter.com/yoloswagstudios/status/1274157872536936450

Whoops, Bill Ma her on Rogan-- Not bad for a drive or flight

[Fails]

Damn! For three days Amy's software has stopped me from posting this link...

[Fails]

okay, cut and paste and add your own dot.

[Fails]

Okay, maybe it doesn't like the word Ma her

https://tinyurl.com/yaf2fajp

Whoops, Bill Maher on Rogan-- Not bad for a drive or flight

[Fails]

Damn! For three days Amy's software has stopped me from posting this link...

[Fails]

okay, cut and paste and add your own dot.

[Fails]

Okay, maybe it doesn't like the word Maher

https://tinyurl.com/yaf2fajp

Amy's software is f'ing with me

Maher show is worth the time for me because of the panelists. Learn who to follow and who to run screaming from.