If Marc Tracy is actually mocking EvenTheLiberal New Republic‘s standard deference towards authority, this is kinda brilliant:
Perhaps the thing that inhibits people from understanding Alan Rusbridger is that the editor of the Guardian, the English-speaking world’s foremost left-wing newspaper, is constantly forced to think like a capitalist. At a truly shameful interrogation before a U.K. Parliament committee yesterday—at one point, Rusbridger’s patriotism was questioned; at another, an M.P. credited the British with creating the Enigma code (it was Britain who cracked Enigma, a Nazi code)—Rusbridger had to defend his paper…
But the Guardian’s longtime steward has more jejune concerns as well…
Yet these concerns, though seemingly base—and undoubtedly ironic for a left-wing newspaper—ought not embarrass Rusbridger or the Guardian. Capitalist self-interest is precisely the engine that drives a robust free press, and always has been. The desire to break scoops and embarrass governments has historically been related to a desire to sell copies (and, now, digital banner ads)… Though all the U.S. Founding Fathers’ writings insisted upon the importance of a free press, the Constitution doesn’t require one—it doesn’t, say, require Congress to fund an independent ombudsman. Rather, the First Amendment merely guarantees that any press that does exist will be free…
Jonathan Chait, in NYMag, mocks Poltico founder Mike Allan’s negotiable affections:
In the fifties, a bunch of rock stations got caught taking money from music producers to give their artists airtime. The “Payola” scam, as it was called, was sufficiently outrageous to become a major national scandal. Last month, Washington Post reporter Erik Wemple reported that Politico‘s Mike Allen is running a similar scam — accepting lucrative payments from advertisers and lending his editorial voice to hyping, and sometimes parroting, their agenda. Given the relative importance of national politics vis-à-vis rock music, this struck me as a potentially career-ending revelation. Instead, Politico has ignored the report and carried on as if nothing at all were amiss…
Now, one possible defense of Allen is that what appears to be simple payola is actually a more sociologically complex phenomenon. Allen, as Wemple reports, has personal friendships with many of his sponsors, uses them as sources, and generally shares their point of view on most issues even while failing to acknowledge he has a point of view at all. This is less a defense than a concession that Allen is so hopelessly embedded within the Establishment that he can’t cover it in a remotely fair way. (This is exactly the argument I made.)…
And now Kos has gotten into a full-scale twit-war with Ron Fournier on “Failing Beltway 101“:
You might remember Ron Fournier for such hits as “failed Beltway political startup HotSoup.com”, almost quitting his reporter job to go work for John McCain’s presidential campaign, and “sending email to Karl Rove encouraging him to ‘keep up the fight'”…
… Hacks are a dime a dozen in the media world. But what makes Fournier particularly interesting is that he’s the editorial director of the National Journal, a respected Beltway publication with a subscription price of over a grand a year. So, you know, you’d expect the person running its newsroom to know a thing or two about politics. But what he lacks in basic political knowledge, he more than makes up in love and affection for Third Way and, not coincidentally, hatred of me…
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Apart from rooting for injuries, what’s on the agenda this evening?
raven
I fixed our dryer that had a broken heating element. I took hours but I saved a bunch of dough.
BGinCHI
When the future Gibbon writes The Decline and Fall of America he or she will have to anchor the analysis in a linkage between the stupidest and most selfish political party aided and abetted by the stupidest, most selfish, and most irresponsible beltway journalists.
We can’t go on like this.
And what’s worse? The genius capitalists think capitalism (and “free” markets) will thrive when a robust civil society, functioning government, and middle class are gone or minimalized.
Fucking idiots.
ranchandsyrup
Gonna make some Jimboy’s style tacos (quick fry on corn tortillas with parmesan cheese sprinkled inside and out), some queso and mash some avocados we got out at the farms. Then I’ll continue my descent into spreadsheet madness.
Relieved that Spurs pulled out a win against Fulham.
beltane
There are actual humans who pay $1,000 a year to subscribe to the National Journal?
BGinCHI
@beltane: No, Donny, these men are not human.
Villago Delenda Est
Rooting for injuries with some friends over pizza downtown.
Also, too, my nym.
Wipe them out. All of them.
BGinCHI
@ranchandsyrup: That Man City match must have cost you some clumps of hair. Jesus.
fledermaus
“But what he lacks in basic political knowledge, he more than makes up in love and affection for Third Way and, not coincidentally, hatred of me”
This sounds about right. Most of the DC politial commentators seem like genial people with a knack for sucking up to the right people who are otherwise unable to analyze policy or legislation. But they are masters of a high school level of socialization, with cool kids and outcasts, so they follow who the cool kids are and parrot whatever the cool kids told them, self-serving or not.
Finally they are very uncomfortable critizing the cool kids because they don’t want to be considered one of the outcasts. Buttered bread and all that
ranchandsyrup
@BGinCHI: I’m pretending that never happened and tipping my cap used to cover my bald spots toward the blue half of Manchester. I was half-heartedly threatening to ragequit Spurs if they lost or drew to Fulham today.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@BGinCHI: this stat is almost a year old, but I doubt much has changed:
gogol's wife
Just came from a holiday party at which the person I was talking to said, “Well, we can all agree that Obamacare is a disaster.” I said, “I don’t.” He said, “I’m hoping for single payer.”
Kill me now.
BGinCHI
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: The Sunday shows don’t care because their viewers are close to the Great Beyond where the climate is all clouds and harps and endless buffets.
Chris
Writing final paper to the theme of “You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch.” Catchy bloody tune, isn’t it?
ranchandsyrup
@gogol’s wife: That made my head hurt.
TaMara (BHF)
Tired of turkey? Yutsano sent me a nice recipe:
PENNE POMODORO
Not a shred of turkey to be found.
TheMightyTrowel
Converting a coded database to descriptive text sucks. I’ve been doing this for two weeks. FML.
magurakurin
Warren not running. She’s a team player, there is no doubt about it. That’s why Obama and her get along. May she have much success as senator.
Trollhattan
Get to know your neighbors. Holy crap, this douche lived among us for over a decade. Thanks, U.S. Marshals.
srv
I don’t care if the Guardian is liberal, they are publishing Snowman’s stuff, so I hope they burn.
srv
@Trollhattan: My sister related a story of one of her coworkers families running into Mexican cartel bangers who terrorized them back home. So nice to see you Christmas shopping, killer of my uncle…
Was also a common occurrence at Texas colleges back in the 80’s. Latin American peers could hiding in the US and be on either side of the Reagan wars. And they were all terrified of each other.
mtiffany
Other than desperately trying to breathe new life into the #bullshitico hashtag I tried to start from six hundred plus days ago? Not much. https://balloon-juice.com/2012/02/16/false-flag/#comment-3052619
Anoniminous
Wondering if the constant pounding of inane Christmas songs
Every.
Where.
I.
Go.
is going to drive me into a homicidal rage.
feebog
The third way is nothing more than a front group of Hedge Fund Mangers and CEOs interested in keeping the current income inequity locked in. Funny how these millionaires and billionaires never seem to come up with a solution that involves rich people paying more taxes.
Southern Beale
Cooking stir fry, watching “Survivor,” as usual plan to work on my lesson plan but realistically will probably fart around on the internet.
I’m livin’ the life, I tells ya.
If anyone is interested, today I posted my weekly Tennessee Gun Report, and it was a bumper crop.
gogol's wife
Okay, NewsMax is getting really weird. “Obama Not Yet Enrolled in Obamacare.”
kc
God is angry at tbogg. http://www.yardbarker.com/college_football/articles/msn/tim_tebow_tv_network_bidding_war_to_heat_up_espn_has_show_in_place/15226016
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@gogol’s wife: that was yesterday’s clever gotcha at Jay Carney’s press briefing; I didn’t recognize the “reporter”, but he kept asking the question over and over again in the way Russert convinced them was journalism.
Trollhattan
@srv:
I can believe it. Am hoping (against hope) they legalize, legitimize and regulate pot growing and put the stateside cartel grows out of business. They’re both very dangerous folks and doing grievous harm to the backcountry and wildlife.
Baud
@gogol’s wife:
He also lives in public housing.
p.a.
Just got diagnosed with shingles. Doc called in script to pharmacy and wanted me to start treatments at once (breakout is near my eye). Get to pharmacy: on order. 1 pm tomorrow. Doc wants me to see my eye doc asap (no eye symptoms, but better safe than …): only appointment 3pm tomorrow. Bankers envy docs over their hours. I would be willing to pay more for health insurance to be in plans that had off-hour service. And my job makes it decent for me to leave early or midday. Many can’t.
WereBear
I have been an Apple fan since the turn of the century, and I’m ready to set fire to Cupertino.
The latest upgrade to the operating system is a downgrade, and I spent the afternoon discovering:
*Pages no longer does mail merge
*despite what they told me online, the “old” Pages has that option grayed out
*I downloaded LibreOffice and they made labels… and put a big space in the top I can’t get rid of and makes it unprintable
*I borrowed a co-worker’s ancient PC and my flash drive made it crash
I finally made them online with the Avery label maker, so thank you Avery folks. But seriously, WTF?
Because I won’t ever mail merge with my phone, I’m not allowed to do it?
Marc
Chait vs. Politico? Kos vs. Fournier? You only root for injuries when you hate both teams.
lamh36
Catching up on my DVR queue.
I am still in love with the Blacklist, Sleepy Hollow and Dracula.
I’m less in love with Person of Interest (I really hated the turn of events in the episode 2 weeks ago). In fact, I’m pretty much done watching. I may go back, but I doubt it anytime soon.
I do have a new love interest though, Almost Human on FOX. I think it’s a really good show, but FOX is doing what it always seems to do with shows like this and they are killing it by showing episodes out of orders. It’s already been noticed and it’s only been 3 episoes not counting the pilot. Fox needs to get its act together.
Anyway, I’m still 2 episodes behind on all my listed shows though, but slowly but surely I’m getting caught up.
jeffreyw
Katie, the rescue that got away from us and was uncatchable for months, had finally earned a taste of free time. This is one of the first times she has been off the leash, outside, since we recaptured her in early May.
raven
@jeffreyw: Nice
MikeJ
@jeffreyw: Maybe the dog can keep her corralled this time.
jeffreyw
@MikeJ: She nips at her heels if she goes astray.
fuckwit
@gogol’s wife: Yeah, I’m hoping for single payer too. In 2039 maybe, if I’m still alive, which I probably won’t be. For now, this is what we got. In this case, it’s a matter of planting a tree under which you will never sit. If your trollish officemate has any ideas as to what to do with the millions of unemployed people that’d result from shutting down the current fucked-up medical care system today and replacing it with single payer, I’d be happy to hear them. Until then, just wait a generation for the insurance companies to die, and we can replace them gradually with single payer. We’ll get there. Eventually.
the Conster
Holiday party tonight and am now taking the train home after having a few. Staying awake so I don’t sleep through my stop by listening to my new favorite group Haim. Three Jewish sisters from LA who are the new more talented Wilson Phillips.
Good goddamn I just can’t believe how blissfully unaware the Village remains after being mercilessly mocked and criticized since there was dial up internet connection. Whoever said a man won’t understand what he’s paid to not understand was a fucking genius.
PsiFighter37
Out of work a bit late, so ordered some Indian takeout from across the street and sipping on Breckenridge Christmas Ale (good seasonal).
I don’t know if there’s a journalist at NYT, WaPo, or anyone else who I can say with confidence is a good journalist. Most of the turdbags at these institutions are trying to be more like Politico, not less.
fuckwit
@BGinCHI: That is actually pretty deep. Democracy is very fragile. It won’t survive economic apocalypse. People will revert to tribal/racial/religious identity and violence, and only authoritarianism would keep it all together. Hell, just look at the authoritarian neo-fascist state we became for a while after 9/11, and how instantly that happened. If people were hungry and starving and dying it’d be way worse. Also, too, capitalism and democracy are the complete opposites, so “free market” capitalism would lead inexorably to a banana republic, not a democracy. Capitalism is one dollar, one vote, and the rich are definitely more equal than others. Democracy is one person, one vote, and every human is valued equally. Very different worlds.
fuckwit
@Anoniminous: I fucking can’t stand christmas music. My solution is to stay home and not go out. Anywhere. I’ll do my bare minimum food shopping and I’ll do it in one big burst once a week– that means only 3 or so times being exposed to christmas bullshit before it’s over. I do gift shopping online. I’m not fucking with clothes or other shopping if I can avoid it, and happily there are some local stores who don’t do the christmas music bullshit so I am free to shop there. If you have christmas music on in your store, you will not get my money.
Omnes Omnibus
@fuckwit: Capitalism is an economic system. Democracy is a political system. Obviously there are connections between economics and politics, but there isn’t a complete overlap. Further, aside from radical libertarians, no one advocates total free market capitalism without any government controls. Adam Smith certainly did not.
PsiFighter37
@fuckwit: What I can’t stand more than Christmas music is the Salvation Army people clanging those godforsaken bells nonstop. THAT’s the real travesty (aside from them being a bigoted, homophobic organization).
Patrick
I take it the person you talked to doesn’t have to worry about getting health insurance due to pre-existing conditions…Many of us don’t have that luxury and look at the ACA (or Obamacare as its opponents call it) as a blessing.
Anne Laurie
@beltane:
Mostly ‘offices’, I suspect — it’s a trade paper for Beltway insiders, and probably deductible as a business-related expense if you make your income on the whims of Congresscritters and similar unpredictable market targets. Kind of a large-scale version of the local real estate office buying ads in the high school yearbook; it’s not that the kids are gonna be buying your product, but if you’re not on the list, people will wonder if you can’t afford it…
PsiFighter37
@Patrick: I take it more that the person didn’t think ACA went far enough.
In other words, all those polls about how ACA is massively disapproved of is more than just teabaggers blubbering foolishly about socialism.
Pogonip
@Anoniminous: Well, if it does, direct the rage towards the Village. No sense letting it go to waste.
I’m making a shopping list (and checking it twice!) with an eye towards the potential big storm Friday.
Patrick
@PsiFighter37:
Sure. And with that viewpoint, we would have ended up with nothing. That’s why I think compromise and the ACA was a blessing. I didn’t want a repeat of 1993.
Pogonip
Violet, are you there? I agree with you. Hannibal is too violent for network TV. Belongs on cable.
Mike with a Mic
@beltane:
I’ve found working in certain circles that there are signals you can send to people that you are “right for the job”. Sure, part of this is getting an education at the right school (I’ve worked for plenty of places that are rather liberal and shit all over non ivy graduates and won’t hire them at all), working at the right places, and having the right social circles… but part of it is talking the talk.
For many positions fitting in requires mundane shit like going to happy hour, participating in the NCAA pool, but it’s more than that. The top positions require you read various publications and various writers. You need this to be able to discuss the issue of the day with other higher ups. If you can’t there is no hope of promotion and you slowly get ignored to the point where your career is ended.
These publications can charge $$$Texa$$$ for their product because it’s an investment. You need to know, repeat, and talk about them to make any sort of real money. Also $1000 a year for a product like this is dirt fucking cheap, lots of them cost much more than that a month. In the case of my job, there isn’t much in these things that isn’t covered better by the State Department or DOD. But the State and Defense Departments don’t fill their publications with smart insider quotes and corporate speak that you can use to stand out at the company officers meetings so you to can take home the big bucks. State and Defense tend to fill their publications with shit like facts and graphs rather than buzzwords.
The best is when you just take what State and DOD publish, fill it up with buzzwords from beltway sources, and then charge a few grand a month for a subscription, which people then pay so they can… quote at board room meetings.
BillinGlendaleCA
@p.a.: I’ve heard shingles is nasty, hope they can treat it since it’s been caught early. The wife and I had the shots earlier in the year.
What’s on the agenda? Waiting for my wife to get here with my new big ass cell phone.
NotMax
@TaMara (BHF)
*Gasp!*
The dreaded FYWP “Y” word sneaked through.
Gonna head out to the yard and poison some unwanted infestations.
lamh36
Ok, I’m a Marvel girl at heart, but my favorite Superhero of all time is Wonder Woman. So of course I follow all the news about casting for movies, tv, etc.
I’ve been waiting so long for a Wonder Woman movie or something that at this point, when I read this news that they have cast Wonder Woman for the upcoming Superman sequel, I’m not sure how I feel about it.
Gal Gadot is Wonder Woman: 13 thoughts on the bombshell-casting bombshell
Now I prefer we made a time machine and went back in time and bring back a young Linda Carter to play Wonder Woman, but since that ain’t happening. I gotta say I was kind hoping for Gina Carano, but let’s just say acting ain’t her forte’, also too, she used to date Cavill, so even if she could act, I’m betting old dude don’t want to work with the ex.
Anyway, what say you comic book fans?
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: Gal Gadot seems quite hot. I have no dog in this fight.
Hal
Alright animal people. I just saw a four kittens living in a field under an old bunch of trees. They do have some shelter and protection and I did notice an adult cat nearby that I’m hoping is the momma. Kittens are old enough to pounce on each other and climb the tree. They didn’t hide from me but would not come up to me and if I tried to get too close they would retreat into the inner tree area. Any ideas what I should do? I’m in upstate NY and it is nice out now but a cold snap is coming Friday.
NotMax
@lamh36
It’s Hollywood, so they’ll make her a super-strong mutant who shoots golden lassos out of her bracelets.
Mnemosyne
I’m debating between making tacos for dinner or mini meatloaves. I also need to straighten up the living room so we can put up the new tree.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne: Order a pizza.*
*Yes, I’m single. Why would you ask?
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
Sloppy Joes?
gogol's wife
@Patrick:
I’m with you. And of course you’re right, this is a person with employer-provided health insurance. The inability of people to imagine themselves in someone else’s shoes is breathtaking.
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: Too bad the chick who plays the Lady Sif (Jaime Alexander) in Thor is already playing well Lady Sif.
I think she would be perfect, but I’m guessing she’s under contract, but hey, they traded Josh Dallas with Zach Levi, and no one noticed or made hay of it.
gwangung
@lamh36: she’s attractive. But I’m not sure she has the physicality or presence to be Wonder Woman.
gwangung
@NotMax: @NotMax: you DO know that that is now canon in DC comics? The weapons out of the bracelets thing, that is….
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Drawback of living in the sticks is the lack of places which deliver anything fit for human consumption.
One learns to cope; there are compensating factors.
Mnemosyne
@Omnes Omnibus:
I already have the ground beef defrosted, so I have to use it or throw it away. And we usually buy frozen pizza, which may actually be lazier than ordering it.
@NotMax:
Maybe. I’m not sure what I would do for a side dish, though. We ate the last of the frozen fries.
lamh36
@gwangung: agreed. She def thin, but people try to explain it as Wonder Woman being a “demigod” so she has inherent strength. Which is true, but she’ll have to stand next to Cavill and even Afleck as Superman and Batman and demigod or not she has to at least appear to be able to take either one of them on and actually win (my belief is that WW could def beat the stuffing out of Superman…Batman..pftt).
Roxy
@Mnemosyne:
My mom used to make the best meatloaf.
NotMax
@gwangung
Oy vey.
How the tools of bondage have fallen.
Oh well, stuff happens. Just so long as she doesn’t wield an armada of invisible drones.
Mnemosyne
@Roxy:
Meatloaf gets a bad rap because a lot of people’s moms didn’t cook it right, but it can be darn tasty if you make it right.
handsmile
@PsiFighter37:
You might want to familiarize yourself with the work of Dana Priest (WaPo) and Charlie Savage (NYT) before opining about your “confidence” in what constitutes good journalism.
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
Are you sure it’s not the National Enquirer Fournier runs?
Cacti
Martin Bashir insults the white former governor of Alaska and gets forced out at MSNBC.
Mark Halperin calls the black President a dick and gets to keep his job.
Good thing MSNBC is the “liberal” network, or I might think there was a double standard going on here.
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
In one of the RPGs our group sometimes runs, one guy plays a priest belonging to a cult that worships meatloaf.
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: Bat out of Hell era Meatloaf?
lamh36
Watching the Rockefeller Christmas Tree thing for a bit. Say what you want, but it is hella hard to write a new Christmas song classic, but Mariah Carey did the damn thing in ’94 with “All I Want For Christmas”
ruemara
@lamh36: I stated she lacked even a basic level of presence for me to take seriously as Wonder Woman. Not the buffness, not a thing about mass or anything, but a lack of commanding presence.
Re: Villagers. I’m not rooting for injuries and are more wishing I could cause them.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: I have never been able to tolerate her. She grates on me. Like a Celine Dion with books.
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Would that it were, but it’s comfort food meatloaf (uncapitalized).
Which, given half an opportunity, his character drones on and on about.
Roxy
@Mnemosyne: My mom would add oatmeal and ketchup, chopped onion to the hamburger. All five of us kids just loved our meatloaf made by mom
Mike G
@Mike with a Mic:
Reason #456457 why DC and Corporate America blows.
NotMax
@Roxy
Not even on the same continent as anything resembling cuisine, but if you don’t mind frozen fries, one can stand them vertically around the meatloaf in the loaf pan and they’ll cook in the fat as the meatloaf cooks.
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: lol. well you’ll hate this too then, she also co-wrote that Faith Hill Christmas song “Where Are You Christmas”…lol
Cassidy
@lamh36: I was rooting for Carano. Her acting was passable in Haywire. The whole physicality thing can be fixed with 6 months in the gym. Hemsworth isn’t normally that big for Thor. Jaime Alexander would have been a good choice as well. I think Yvonne Strahovski would have been an inspired choice.
Roxy
@NotMax:
Sounds interesting. Maybe one of these days I’ll give it a try
kc
@Hal:
Commenter WereBear might have some good ideas. There’s a link to her blog “The Way of Cats” in the BJ blog roll.
Also, if you Google “feral cat shelters” you can get some ideas for making little shelters out of affordable materials.
Amir Khalid
@Omnes Omnibus:
Or maybe the Meatloaf who was the male half of the most unlikely screen couple ever, his other half being Gillian Anderson, in a kids’ movie titled The Mighty.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: A soul/R&B Christmas song that works for me.
@Amir Khalid: My gob, it is smacked.
WereBear
@Hal: Best thing is see if there is a shelter organization in the area who can help.
Find feral cat help in your area
They can provide live traps and other assistance. Bless you!
mai naem
Charlie Pierce had a piece recently where he said of Fournier : “He’s been a tool for so long he should be sold at Home Depot.” Hee hee.
Violet
@Pogonip: Oh, hey! Raven said you were looking for me. Yeah, it’s amazingly violent, isn’t it? I think it’s okay for cable, but for network TV, even the last hour before the news, it seems waaay over the top violent.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: @Omnes Omnibus: Or this one.
IowaOldLady
@gogol’s wife: Sometimes I think comments about the ACA aren’t about it at all. Instead they’re tribal identifiers. I recall asking conservative old folks at the Y what they thought about Medicare for all, with younger folks being allowed to buy in, and they were all for it. But they hate “Obamacare” because it’s socialism.
Elizabelle
@Cacti:
Was sorry to see that about Martin Bashir. Rather like him.
Lesson might be to stay away from Princess Dumbass of the Northwoods. Low-hanging fruit, and better ignored.
Bashir was not wrong about how stupid her slavery/debt peonage remarks were.
I think it’s interesting that what he actually said was only easily found in stories about his resignation.
Lurking Buffoon
Got back from a ACA lecture in town tonight, it was informative but much of it wasn’t new thanks to following this blerg for so long. Then I checked my email and found out I’VE BEEN ACCEPTED INTO GRAD SCHOOL!!! I just have to meet with admissions to register for classes and all.
… And figure out how I’m going to pay for this. Crap!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@IowaOldLady: Brian Beutler had an interesting piece at Salon, arguing that the ACA is the new battleground in the culture war, having almost nothing to do with the actual content of the law
Yatsuno
@Lurking Buffoon: WOOT!!! Talk to geg6, she might be able to give you some good financial aid advice. Because, well, it’s her jerb, and stuff.
Cervantes
@beltane: There are actual humans who pay $1,000 a year to subscribe to the National Journal?
I used to read it more than I do now. David Bradley is in the process of ruining it, much as he has ruined The Atlantic.
Cervantes
@the Conster: Whoever said a man won’t understand what he’s paid to not understand was a fucking genius.
Upton Sinclair, in I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked, his published account of his almost-successful 1934 run for governor of California.
Smiling Mortician
@Lurking Buffoon: Have you applied for fellowships or assistantships or both? Do so — and talk to the admissions people about them, too.
danielx
Injuries, hell, I’m rooting for tumbrels. And space on one should be reserved for this guy, among so many others.
Why Elan Gale Made Up an Epic ‘Note War’ on a Thanksgiving Flight
Evidently there’s a story behind this. Silly me; after reading his notes I figured it was because he’s a tenth degree douche rocket.
Jebediah, RBG
@Lurking Buffoon:
Congratulations!
danielx
@NotMax:
Paradise By The Oven Light
Lol
@lamh36:
The Sacrifice storyline from a few years back has a great Wonder Woman vs Superman brawl.
Jack Canuck
Sitting at home fighting off a very nasty summertime flu whilst taking care of a toddler. I’d really like to crawl into bed and sleep for a week, but that doesn’t seem likely.
J R in WV
@gogol’s wife:
Doesn’t the President get, like, federal employee health insurance? Or even better GS-99 insurance and coverage at Bethesda?
He’s not gonna need a silver-policy, or a platinum-policy, when he has Bethesda, is he? Plus CDC and NIH, right? I mean, he should be covered like a blanket, along with his family, as a matter of national security.
But the Republicans, they think he should be trusting to luck, and are hoping that a rock will fall from the sky to put an end to the god-less communist Kenyan President with the too-dark-to-be-an-American complexion.
Another Holocene Human
@WereBear: WTF? Mail merge is generally still a bunch of incantations, imprecations, and curses (although, you know, it’s no CUPS). Whatever happened to “it just works”? Why can’t they make shit we do all the time easier?
You know what kills me on an Android phone? Not being able to maintain a text message list to send out mass texts. This shouldn’t be hard.
Another Holocene Human
@gwangung: God, that sounds lame.
Lurking Buffoon
@Smiling Mortician: @Smiling Mortician: @Jebediah, RBG: Thanks! And yeah, the plan is to find as much financial aid as absolutely possible. I may qualify for one of their scholarships, but it’s iffy. I expect I’ll have a definitive answer when I meet with them. As far as contacting geg6, um… I have no idea how to contact anyone on here if they don’t have a link for a name. Can’t remember if geg does either, but that’s easy to solve by digging around enough.
JustRuss
@p.a.: Best of luck with the shingles. Had it on my face last year, got misdiagnosed for several days before I got the proper treatment. Got close to my eye, but no damage.
Fred Brack
@PsiFighter37:
“@fuckwit: What I can’t stand more than Christmas music is the Salvation Army people clanging those godforsaken bells nonstop. THAT’s the real travesty (aside from them being a bigoted, homophobic organization).”
So much anger! Veering toward rage! Veering toward hatred!
In the 1970s, Tom Wolf identified Boomers coming of age as the Me Generation. As a pre-Boomer, I wonder if I’m witnessing the Boomer Two generation, each member of which seem to demand that the entire world must be arranged for his/her satisfaction. Or is it that some people tend to signal their identities by what they dislike/hate? If the latter, isn’t that thin gruel to nourish a robust life with a certain ending?