Oh, c’mon, you couldn’t resist either. From the Washington Post:
… Yes, it’s another case of life imitating “Star Trek” (remember the food replicator?). In this case, though, the creators hope there is an application beyond deep-space pizza parties. The technology could also be used to feed hungry populations here on Earth.
Texas-based Systems and Materials Research Corp. has been selected for a $125,000 grant from NASA to develop a 3-D printer that will create “nutritious and flavorful” food suitable for astronauts, according to the company’s proposal. Using a “digital recipe,” the printers will combine powders to produce food that has the structure and texture of, well, actual food. Including smell…
Astronauts carry pre-packaged food — not the freeze-dried ice cream for sale in Smithsonian gift shops, but a little like the meals ready to eat, or MREs, consumed by the military. The preparations are short on flavor and heavy on processing, which tends to “degrade the micronutrients in the foods,” Steitz said. There also isn’t much choice or variety, since all combinations of food are pre-determined. That can take on big significance after a year or three cooped up in a small metal capsule…
One of the first goals for SMRC’s printer is the humble pizza. It was chosen because it contains a variety of nutrients and flavors, said David Irvin, director of research at SMRC. More importantly, a pizza is made up of layers, a key principle used in 3-D printing technology. …
Apart from dinner planning (and irking BJ readers not in the Eastern time zone, sorry) what’s on the agenda this evening?
scav
Mars would have pink salt.
pacem appellant
Did anyone else hear TOTN today during the Political Junkie segment where Neal Conan seemed to have grown a pair and shut down the tea-breathing Kellyanne Conway? When pressed to retract her statement that IRS will determine who gets healthcare, she doubled down. So, Neal just said, “No, it won’t” and cut to station identification. When she hung up she didn’t say goodbye or thanks. I loved it. I know TOTN is going away, and I won’t miss it, but it’s good to see Neal standing up for journalistic integrity before being shown the door. Transcript here.
But by far, my favorite Conway quote was this:
I don’t even think she was trying to form a logical, much less, coherent argument. The tea is strong with that one.
piratedan
man, those gotta be some damn expensive toner cartridges…….
Roger Moore
On the dinner front, I have some gazpacho ingredients marinating in the fridge ready to be blended when I get home. Apart from that, there’s a kitty cat who needs to see his human and some blogs to read.
Zam
Anyone else see this shit going around equating gay rights with gun rights? As if two people of the same gender who are both adults and willing participants is the same thing as shooting up a bunch of kids. I fucking just hate everything around me some days.
Lurking Canadian
I strongly suspext that the result would only be palatable to somebody who’d been on an all Tang diet for six months. I expect we’ll have consumer quality vat grown meat long before we have consumer quality 3D printed food.
Calming Influence
Mmmmmmmm – pizza!
jeffreyw
Tomorrow, we mow.
Tonight is for sausages.
kindness
Mmmm. Delicious plastic. Don’t you know those astronauts are going to just go crazy over 3D printer food.
jeffreyw
Country kittehs are new to the newfangled indoor plumbing appliances.
muddy
I had made this new raised bed out of scraps, and planted it carefully with 6 kinds of potatoes, royal burgundy and dragon langerie bush beans on the 2 long sides, and corn in the middle. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mudpix/8751404525/in/set-72157633513863823
The puppy dug it up several times in between finding new ways to escape the fence. All the potatoes, beans and corn are now well mixed at random depths. I figure the corn is probably in the front. I don’t know what I was thinking to give her the opportunity. I know who’s at fault! Today I stapled chicken wire across the top that I had left over from patching the fence.
The big dog acted all scandalized, as though he were not a crazy digging runaway 2 years ago. I just got a backpack for her, it made a world of difference for him. I got him an upsized model as well. Sadly for them, after all the extra work today I’m too tired now to take them out. Wages, sin, etc. Now I’m deciding what kind of drinky winky would be nice in the tub. I don’t often have a dw but this day called for it.
Sweet innocent dogs are tired: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mudpix/8752525420/in/set-72157633513863823
TaMara (BHF)
Ummm. No. Just no.
@efgoldman: Made me smile.
Amir Khalid
@Lurking Canadian:
This. Much of our food is organisms, plant and animal parts which are both structurally and chemically complex. Can you replicate that, or convincingly imitate it, just by layering stuff from different bottles of chemicals? I’m inclined to think not.
Violet
Copper River Sockeye salmon was on sale at the fish counter when I went to the store. That’s what’ for dinner. Expensive, but I couldn’t resist. The season is so short and I love it.
@muddy: When the beans and corn come up, you can transplant them if they’re in the wrong place. Won’t hurt them too much.
muddy
@Violet: Well now I have cleverly stapled chicken wire over it, so no. After I was done it occurred to me that hooking it over some screws would have been more to the point. derp
Roger Moore
@jeffreyw:
At least they haven’t confused it for a nap spot. Jake did that for a while after I got him. He also loved to bring his toys over to the litter box to play with them.
Jay in Oregon
Young bucks printing T-bones with ObamaMakers!
Keith
Mediate is reporting that the James Rosen emails included this gem: “Let’s break some new, and expose muddle-headed policy when we see it – or force the administration’s hand to go in the right direction, if possible.” Now *that* sounds like the FoxNews we all know and love. Maybe now it will dawn on people that Rosen’s emails were taken with a judge’s approval, so there had to be a reason for it.
Interestingly, Mediaite says this was “Alex”, which is Rosen, whereas FoxNews reverses the identities so that that statement would have come from the leaker. Gonna have to dig up the originals to see who is mistaken (my gut says Fox is wrong and will put a correction at the bottom of their home page in 6pt font in a week)
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
I have a tentative job offer to be a TA for two month long accounting courses taught by one of my former professors. That’s great. The catch is that he’s teaching them in Xi’an. I’m really not much of a traveler and dislike being away from home for more than about 4-5 days so I’m less excited about this than you might think. I’m almost certainly going to accept it if the job offer firms up and there’s nothing wretched buried in it but I’m really ambivalent about it. I just want a job here in the Twin Cities.
srv
Why don’t we just wait until we can clone people? Then we can just eat them.
jl
@Amir Khalid:
I’m with you. The article says that
” the printers will combine powders to produce food ”
and that will solve the problem that
current ‘preparations are short on flavor and heavy on processing, which tends to “degrade the micronutrients in the foods,” Steitz said.’
Not sure how that is supposed to add up.
ffredpalakon
I just did a piece on Benny Johnson who works as a new media editor at Buzzfeed, “Benny Johnson: Gorgeous Animus”. What’s interesting is how a guy who worked at the Family Research Council and engaged in some real vile queer-baiting, islam baiting, and race-baiting stuff at Glenn Beck’s The Blaze and Breitbart’s place has now transitioned over to Buzzfeed as a supposed non-partisan team member. I heard about Johnson’s past through Oliver Willis’s great work and was reminded him of the NSFW Corp’s Buzzfeed piece posted here last week.
It’s just one of the those striking things about what’s considered over the line and unacceptable in the press – you can post that kind of stuff on the Blaze and it carries no stigma, while any harsh, but thoughtful critique, about collective corporate policy bringing about suffering and income inequality carries the stigma of beyond the pale radicalism.
jl
@jeffreyw:
Thanks. You are a masterful 3-D food printer.
Mnemosyne
I’ve been battling a migraine all day, but soon I get to go home and make cowboy burgers. Slender Kitchen’s Weight Watchers meal plans are working well for me so far, though G is a little irritated at the number of dishes I manage to dirty in the course of cooking them.
Mnemosyne
@jeffreyw:
They all look like my late great Boris, who was the best, sweetest, most affectionate cat ever.
Not the brightest cat, but the most awesome.
Bill E Pilgrim
You have to admit the possibilities for diner slang are enticing.
“Adam and Eve on a raft, and print em!
“Bacon jam! Clear the rollers! Tray 4 is empty, hand me another ream of A4 hickory smoked!”
RSA
Sadly, Mars Needs Women never got the MST3K treatment. A few sample quotes, from memory:
The Martians dressing up in Earth costume: “We gave up neckties on Mars 50 years ago!”
A news announcer reporting the arrival of a space scientist: “She’s a stunning brunette, whose looks aren’t hidden by her horn-rimmed glasses.”
As the Martians discuss whether to abduct this scientist: “Is she single?”
Trollhattan
@pacem appellant:
Sentence lacked critical Benghazi seasoning.
jl
@Mnemosyne: Thanks for the link. I didn’t know burger meat dressed up like that was a Cowboy burger. I’m gonna try it out.
Violet
@muddy: Well, you’ll have to take that chicken wire off at some point when you want to harvest the potatoes or do something else. Might as well do it when it’s easier rather that when it’s hard (when the chicken wire and the vegetables are all intertwined and it’s a right pain to disentangle). From your photo, what you need is a higher fence to discourage the dogs. You could repurpose the chicken wire and turn it into a higher fence. How big is your bed? If it’s big, you’ll have to step on the chicken wire just to reach into the interior portion. I learned that the hard way when I made a bed that I could reach the middle of. Had to put a stepping stone in it.
Trollhattan
@piratedan:
And no getting them refilled at the nearest Costco, either.
Trollhattan
@jl:
Special micronutrient powder, of course!
Mr Stagger Lee
A kind of a science-y question, actually Sci-Fi what do some of you think of the series Defiance? There have been a couple of episodes I thought were good, but the series has been more of a Meh! I will give it a few more shows.
danimal
For the record, I agree with Senators Inhofe and Coburn. There should be corresponding budget offsets for OK disaster relief.
It’s time to end Ethanol tax subsidies that simply transfer money from the federal government to Big Ag and Big Oil.
Violet
@Mnemosyne: Migraine, huh? Have you figured out what the triggers are for you? When I eliminated gluten (I’m not celiac, but figured out on my own that I’ve got some kind of wheat sensitivity) I found I didn’t have those severe headaches that I used to get.
Trollhattan
@Jay in Oregon:
Keyboard cleanup, Aisle 3!
jl
@Trollhattan:
That microprinting stuff might work better for solving malnutrition on earth. All you’d need is some freshly made earthworm or cricket powder.
Yum yum. I might even eat that kind of stuff it was microprinted powder that I thought was, I dunno, cheesecake.
But for mars, I guess we just wait until the miracle of science pumps out drums of ever lasting micronutrient powder.
Mnemosyne
@Violet:
One of them is the weather — yes, the freaking weather. I knew when I saw the overcast sky this morning why I started getting one last night. I think I was also dehydrated yesterday, which can be a trigger for me.
They’re also allergy-related — I have a whole lot fewer of them now that I take Zyrtec every day. Still, the weather ones are the most annoying because there’s nothing I can do about them.
Amir Khalid
@Mnemosyne:
My Bianca has been in something of a mood this morning, she hasn’t said over what. I picked her up and got scratched in the face. Fortunately, hardly any blood was drawn, and i expect she’ll regain her composure sometime today.
Bill E Pilgrim
I’m waiting for a 4D printer so I can change my checkered past.
NotMax
Well, some people say we don’t really need them, so the science regrading nutrients is still undecided.
The Founding Fathers didn’t address scurvy and beriberi, why should we?
/random House committee chair
jl
Speaking of dubious technology, they are trying out automatic voice transcript technology at work. I switched it on to see how it would handle my current endless and useless phone meeting. Was hilarious for awhile.
Edit: A lot of meetings would make as much sense if you just read the automatically generated voice transcript nonsense.
raven
I’m going to try one more time. There are a great number of pets separated from their people in Moore, OK. If you can help here’s a link to the Central Oklahoma Humane Society.
scav
@Bill E Pilgrim: A little more mottling does make for tastier memories.
pacem appellant
@Trollhattan: I loved how behind on her talking points she was. DPRK with nukes was so 2012.
Violet
@Mnemosyne: I’m very familiar with the weather change and headaches. I figure it must do something to the pressure in your nasal passages or something. Sorry you have to deal with it too. I’ve got another friend who has it and we kind of nicknamed ourselves “barometers” because when the weather changes we both end up feeling lousy.
David Koch
The liberal blogosphere sure is fickle.
Remember Anthony Weiner.
He was a full blown blog idol. They just loved and adored him. When WeinerGate emerged the blogosphere went nutz, first saying it was a smear, then when he confessed, they implored him to stay and fight, and finally when he resigned they actually cried when he left. During the 12 day fiasco, 278 diaries were posted on GOS for an average of 23 per day.
Today he announced he was returning to politics. The response on GOS…….. wait for it…. 3 diaries. Talk about petering out.
What happened? It hasn’t been that long, only 2 years since left. I thought they stood on principle. They got their icon back and they turned their back on him. Are they just spoiled children who constantly need candy to get their attention, and when that runs dry they simply move to their next shinny object?
NotMax
@Mr Stagger Lee
Mad Max with aliens. 2-dimensional stock characters. Mediocre CGI. Meh.
When a science fiction show gets basic science so very, very wrong from the get-go, I tend to look askance at their ability to do the fiction part.
Trollhattan
@jl:
Suffice to say my name isn’t on the one-way-Mars-flight waiting list. This will be a thing they can suss out on the ISS, presuming they can get a prototype to work. I don’t know if they’ve given up on space-bound aquaculture.
Violet
@David Koch:
Seriously? If you thought that then you haven’t been paying attention.
Yatsuno
It’s a training day, so I get off work early tonight. Thinking nice French food and a glass of wine. Then one more day before four days off. I might be lippy tomorrow.
Bill E Pilgrim
@scav: I never did any mottling. Though I did date one once.
piratedan
ahhhh sigh… just informed by the specialist that I have an africanized honey bee nest in my roof……
Amir Khalid
@David Koch:
Maybe it is indeed fickleness. Or maybe they’ve just wised up to who he is. The latter possibility has to be considered too.
Roger Moore
@David Koch:
He got soft, and we all know that a soft Weiner is much less exciting.
Mnemosyne
@Violet:
Luckily, I live in Southern California where we have the same weather, like, 300 days a year, but it’s still annoying as hell when it happens. It seems to be sudden changes in humidity (drops or increases) that trigger them. Good ol’ Excedrin usually does the trick, but I’m still a little zonky even with that.
Foregone Conclusion
So, in Britain gay marriage passed the House of Commons last night. It still has to go through the House of Lords, and there might be some potentially not-great amendments proposed by them, but it’s unlikely that any great damage will be done – and in any case, they can be overridden with the big majorities that we saw in the Commons. The bill is looking a lot better than it would have done a couple of months ago – as a pro-LGBT rights person who is also a Christian, I am very glad about the provision for religious same-sex marriages for groups like the Quakers and Liberal Jews (and hopefully more soon!)
Politically, the result isn’t bad either. David Cameron, who probably actually is doing this on grounds of principle, has a split party. About half of the Tory MPs voted for, half against (there were overwhelming majorities in favour from the Lib Dems and Labour); probably in their membership at large, it’s more skewed towards an anti-equal marriage position, although the ones shouting loudest at the moment are social conservatives. I fear that David Cameron (who is not exactly a leftie on economic issues) is going to get pushed out and replaced as leader/Prime Minister by someone even more right wing and nutty. On the other hand, the insurgent Tea Party-like UK Independence Party looks to threaten to split the right-wing vote at the next election, which is pretty nice.
Anyway, a piece of nuttiness from the Tory fringes from someone who implies that David Cameron is a Communist: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/05/david-cameron-has-caused-a-crisis-in-conservatism/
joes527
@jeffreyw: OK. I’m not usually into food porn. But damn!
Joeyess
They’re eating people! The 3-D food is people!!!!
Bill Arnold
@srv:
The boing-boing take on pizza printing covered that:
“the powders are room-temperature stable for long periods and can be made from relatively abundant, sustainable foodstocks like insects and soylent green.”
gelfling545
The sun is shining brightly, it’s thundering and rain is pouring down. Welcome to WNY weather. This evening involves cleaning the entry hall because with all the mulching & digging we’ve been doing, it looks like we mulched the hall too. We’re eating barbeque rotisseried chicken & penne mozzarella salad nicely prepared for us at Wegmans with corn on the cob perfect for a no-cook, hot, humid day, then back to work.
Higgs Boson's Mate
I don’t see how a 3D printed burger from Wendy’s or a 3D printed Papa John’s pizza could be much worse than the real thing.
Bill E Pilgrim
@Joeyess: Funny.
Soylent 8-1/2 x 11
gelfling545
@Foregone Conclusion: This would be under the new definition of “communist”: someone I don’t like. See also socialiiist; facist; nazi.
Amir Khalid
@gelfling545:
So of course this came to mind:
I want to know
Have you ever seen the rain
Coming down on a sunny day?
joes527
@David Koch: kind of hard (just move on) to get excited about a politician who is stupid enough to tweet dick pics. I never was a weener lover/hater, but he seems like a bad risk (regardless of his positions)
As the philosopher said:
fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.
scav
@Foregone Conclusion: Rhyming topic: How to spot a swivel-eyed loon
Mike in NC
Went out to an early dinner with neighbors who wanted to stop by their regular watering hole for a drink afterwards. Local VFW post filled with a bunch of elderly white folks. FOX News was playing on the big screen TV, so in a mere 10-15 minutes I was exposed to IRS scandal, teleprompter jokes, Kristol and Krauthammer pontificating, Weiner jokes, Syria, and Benghazi!!!! I chugged my beer so we could get the hell out of there and I felt like taking a nice warm shower after returning home.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@Mike in NC:
VFW posts are awash with REMFs who are themselves awash with what they’d have done had they been in combat. Avoid at all costs.
raven
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: Easy on the REMF’s swab jockey!
Higgs Boson's Mate
@raven:
That’s Pelican-raper to you, sir!
mclaren
So Eric Holder has now admitted in a public letter that the U.S. has used drones to murder 4 American citizens without charges and a trial. But no worries — they’re brown, and they have funny names.
Obama! Hope and change!
raven
Ah, the troll filter works. Bye bye you shit eatin dog fucker.
Eric
@Mnemosyne: I am the same. It is the barometric pressure on veasels. Loving advil migraine. Seriously works fantastic
Trollhattan
@Roger Moore:
Heh. Methinks the supposed Weiner fans were a regional phenomenon, presuming they even existed. I didn’t know squat about him until his career unraveled on my teevee. Not a significant national figure before then, certainly not one now (except for the wrong reasons). I do feel for his wife, being dragged out in public for his appearances.
Francis
First day of new job.
[Dance of joy. dance of joy. dance of joy. dogs bark, etc.]
But I was out long enough that I’m a little rusty. What are the required elements of a provisional patent application again?
Higgs Boson's Mate
@mclaren:
Well, first it would be helpful if you provided a link. Were the Americans on foreign soil? Were they advocating the overthrow of our government? Were they offering aid and comfort to those defined as terrorists?
War changes, it rarely ceases. The first thing that historians note is that during the change people do really stupid things.
My own view is that once someone affiliates themselves with an organization that is the sworn enemy of my country then they become fair game.
ranchandsyrup
watching the Doors Live at the Bowl ’68 on Palladia. Purty cool.
gelfling545
@Amir Khalid:As, they say about Buffalo (& other places, I hear) If you don’t like the weather, wait a minute. We’ve seen the rain & a bunch of other weird weather over the years.
piratedan
@Bill E Pilgrim: perhaps solyent green pantone 46?
Foregone Conclusion
@gelfling545:
Oh, there’s a whole crazy conspiracy theory constructed around it, but basically, yes. The implication of said crazy conspiracy theory is that if you don’t agree with how British culture and society was sixty years ago, you are a Communist.
JPL
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: Holder just formally acknowledged the death of the Americans in Yemen. It was reported months ago. I don’t remember the Pakistan one though.
Shalimar
@pacem appellant: I heard Conway’s appearance. The funniest part was this:
She was trying so hard not to give Obama credit for anything, and Conan stuck the knife in. It was hilarious. If you can listen to it, do. His tone of voice made it. I can understand why she was pissed. Her tactic basically was to keep talking until someone interrupted.
MikeJ
@gelfling545:
Today’s reading on Seattle Weather is from Tom Robbins’ Still Life With Woodpecker:
Jay S
@jl: Hey, I combine powders to make bread all the time. It seems like food with flavor to me.
Roger Moore
@Jay S:
It takes a bit more than just laying them down in order to work, though.
PeakVT
Meh. Call me when they can replicate guitars on Mars.
Violet
@pacem appellant:
Yes! I did! I happened to be in the car at the time and heard that. The phone going dead when she hung up was lovely. As was his, “No, it won’t.” comment. I didn’t know TOTN was going away. I always enjoy the Political Junkie segment.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@PeakVT: I thought they were still eating cars and bars.
joes527
@Trollhattan: There were pl-enty of folks in the progress-o-sphere who were doing photoshop recreations in their sandboxes to prove (SCIENTIFICALLY I TELL YOU!!!) that it wasn’t Weiner’s wiener.
And yeah, the GOS was a nexus of that dreck. (was exif snooping popular here? I don’t remember.)
Kind of embarrassing for folks who piled on. Everything but the kerning was used as proof (PROOF I SAY!) that he was being set up.
But I don’t see their refusal to double down on a mistake as a bad thing.
I have no idea whether Weiner is evil (was never a fan/hater). But stupid is enough qualification for the dustbin of history. I guess he figures that if Sanford can come back, anything is possible.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@PeakVT:
No one can replicate Travis Wammack.
jl
@JPL:
I think the one in Pakistan is the only one that has not been reported. The letter posted at McL’s NYT link was infuriating boilerplate garbage.
If I were Leahy I would make a stink about BS crap boilerplate propaganda worthless letters like that. Tear it up on the teevee and tell Holder to hold the BS sauce next time he writes a damn letter.
But then that is why I will never ever be elected to anything.
I can sympathize with Higg’s Boson Mate’s point of view, but if there are no front lines and organized enemy force, the gray areas are too big and blurry to continue to operate as we do now wrt to targeting U.S. citizens.
jl
@joes527: I had no idea that the Kosites did a troofer expose of the kernings on Weiners wiener.
I don’t think Weiner is evil, but some commenters here reminded me of what a weasel he was in office.
The wiener shots were such weak sauce, (nothing like what Sanford pulled), Weiner should have said “Yeah, I’ve been a stupid jerk and I’ll stop it. So what?”. It would have been interesting to see how that have played out. But he’s a weasel and that is not the weasel way.
Mnemosyne
@mclaren:
Uh, no, that’s not what he said. Do you ever read your own links?
WereBear
@piratedan: You mean… those KILLER BEES?
Run, dude.
MikeJ
@jl:
It’s a big enough place you’re going to see people acting like idiots no matter what the topic.
The loons are still looning over at TBogg’s place since he dared to say that equating treason with being gay sounds like a dumb idea for pro equality people.
NotMax
@efgoldman (#93)
Rod SerlingDamon Knight wrote the original short story more than a decade before Serling adapted it for TV.
OT: All comments in which I link to a previous comment are now being Yutsanoed. *sigh*
Mnemosyne
@jl:
The entire point of the letter is that the only US citizen who was specifically targeted was al-Aulaqi senior. The other three were (as the phrase has it) collateral damage that happened in the course of other operations.
If you have specific information that those other three were also specifically targeted and Holder is lying about it, please present that evidence.
Baud
@Mnemosyne:
Links aren’t there for proof. They are there to impress the reader with the commenter’s authoritativeness. You’re not actually supposed to click on them.
Roger Moore
@Mnemosyne:
Does the Pope shit in the woods? Is a bear Catholic? Of course she doesn’t bother to read the whole article. That might interfere with the outrage.
joes527
@jl:
I didn’t follow closely, but wasn’t he tweeting to someone under age? (Can you even tweet to someone? I though that tweets were a broadcast. Shows what I know.)
In any case, that’s game over, man. Game over.
joes527
@MikeJ:
FTFY
jl
@joes527: After it came out he was lying about, I thought he had to resign, so did not follow it closely enough. I think they were all of age, but correct me if I’m wrong.
piratedan
@WereBear: aye, but these bees chase you….
called the professionals, beeing eradicated as we speak, but a significant ouchie on the family budget
jl
@Mnemosyne: I wasn’t accusing Holder of lying or implying that the others were intentionally targeted, in fact the letter says they were not. I think you are reading too much into my comment.
The letter said:
” The United States is further aware of three other U.S.
citizens who have been killed in such U.S. counterterrorism operations over that same time period: Samir Khan, ‘Abd al-Rahman Anwar al-Aulaqi, and Jude Kenan Mohammed. These individuals were not specifically targeted by the United States. ”
I think that is not enough information, it too vague, and specifically too vague about the nature of the target and likelihood that U.S. citizens would be killed in whatever attacks killed them.
Holder should have spent some effort on trying to give an adequate report (without breaching security) of how these U.S. citizens got killed by the U.S. government and spent less laying on the boilerplate.
Mnemosyne
@jl:
It seemed like the primary focus of the letter was to answer Congress’s question about targeted killings and, since those three were not actual targets, he didn’t really discuss the circumstances. It’s a question that may need to be answered, but I don’t think that was the question that was asked. And if you can find me a lawyer who volunteers information that he hasn’t been asked to provide, I’ll buy you a Coke. :-)
jl
@Mnemosyne: Holder irritates me so much, I might have over reacted. So, to make it clear, the letter infuriated me.
Mnemosyne
@jl:
And mclaren annoys me so much that you got a bit of the overspill. So, even steven.
Suffern ACE
@joes527: the woman in question wasn’t under age, but honestly if he was sending unsolicited shots, he was taking that risk. He admitted recently that there were more pictures out there.
I also think he would have lost his seat. This is just a hunch. But New York City can be funny that way. It’s not really live and let live. It’s more like live and keep it quiet and don’t reflect poorly on us.
David Koch
@Suffern ACE: he did tweet to an attractive high school student who was underage. they both denied any sexting DMs were exchanged, but without subpenaing the records, there’s no way to know. Nevertheless, a then 47 year old man chatting up a hot 17 year old is problematic.
Lurking Canadian
@jl: It is virtually certain that the resulting recombinant would be less pleasant to eat than actual crickets or earthworms.
Suffern ACE
@Lurking Canadian: I’m pretty certain that zero gravity and pressurized capsules will alter taste buds anyway.
mainmati
@pacem appellant: That’s 100% pure distilled psychosis.
Suffern ACE
@David Koch: it almost would have been better if they were sexting. Tawdry, sure. But the story made it seem like Antony the type of guy who would drop his pants if a woman sat next to him on the subway and made eye contact. No one wants mayor trenchy-whips-it-out.
Petorado
@PeakVT:
Voila!
Though my favorite from the HoodooGurus is Bittersweet.
Fred
Don’t you just hate when the pixels get stuck in your teeth?