Trump loves to talk about his TIME covers—was reportedly annoyed when Bannon got one
New cover: Special Counsel Mueller: “The Lie Detector” pic.twitter.com/7JasZH7I15
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 22, 2017
Or is it?….
#TapperTilt pic.twitter.com/7uBQMRyeL4
— Schooley (@Rschooley) June 18, 2017
Here’s to a quiet weekend, for once, irregardless…
Do NOT stop petting the dogs — or this will happen ?? pic.twitter.com/ygw2OvIhws
— The Dodo (@dodo) June 20, 2017
?BillinGlendaleCA
I’m worried about Cole. Here’s the tweet: “when in doubt, fdisk”.
gene108
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Who hasn’t fdisk-ed, when in doubt?
I mean you get up, you covfefe, wonder what to do with your day and fdisk, for lack of anything better to do.
SiubhanDuinne
Anne Laurie, you might want to get rid of the “ir” in “irregardless” before Steeplejack shows up.
Ben from Virginia
Of course Trump is obsessed with TIME covers–once again, showing his age.
Mnemosyne
Cats do that, too, but are more willing to use sharp teeth and unsheathed claws to enforce their will.
It’s almost time for our nightly time to chase Annie around the apartment to pill her. We actually only have to give her the pill every other day now, but she was so disappointed to not be chased that now we chase her and give her snuggles and attention on the nights she doesn’t get a pill. It’s weird, but it works for us.
SiubhanDuinne
@gene108:
Bqhatevwr.
Mike J
fdisking is a valid answer to a severe problem, but I usually resort to sector hacking first.
Mnemosyne
@SiubhanDuinne:
Are you kidding? That’s how she’s going to lure him to make a comment! ?
Steeplejack (phone)
@SiubhanDuinne:
Sure, lay it on me! What am I, your pedant beard?
ETA: Did anyone else pick up on that “starting my eighth decade” thing? I had to leave that thread and later couldn’t remember which one it was.
Amir Khalid
@Ben from Virginia:
Maybe he wants to get on the cover of TIME and Newsweek in the same week
Oh, wait …
SiubhanDuinne
@Mnemosyne:
I was not aware that Steep required luring.
SiubhanDuinne
@Steeplejack (phone):
If the shoe fit’s….
Ben from Virginia
@Amir Khalid:
I’m 31. The last time I actually read print newsweeklies, I was in high school.
bago
When in doubt… use cloud storage with fault domain and geographic redundancy.
Steeplejack (phone)
@SiubhanDuinne:
Why, I oughta . . .
SiubhanDuinne
@Steeplejack (phone):
You little . . .
SiubhanDuinne
@Steeplejack (phone):
Don’t think so, but I can’t remember the thread either. (Alain the Site Magician should make it easier for us to find things like that.)
Mnemosyne
Is it just me, or do Mueller’s hands look really, really … big in that photo. ?
Manyakitty
@gene108: Ahhh, thank you for the spontaneous laugh!
amk
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Isn’t the dumbass ABC’s problem now?
Kay
Good job! I call Rob Portman although Rob Portman is not someone I would ever want to call.
I would prefer to call Chris Murphy! Just saying. Some of you have easier jobs :)
Other people have to call Mitch McConnell. Ugh. Think how horrible that is.
Steeplejack (phone)
@SiubhanDuinne:
I could use my searching superpowers, but I’m too lazy. I just thought you might have remembered.
NotMax
“irregardless”
Nay, nay, a thousand times nay.
(Shakes head, frowns, stashes box of gold stars in the back of the bottom drawer.)
Major Major Major Major
@SiubhanDuinne:
…where it?
Morzer
When all of this is over, I hope Bob Mueller can get his own soap opera as the kindly old doctor who solves family crises with folksy observations.
SiubhanDuinne
@Steeplejack (phone):
Well, while I was still checking that thread — whichever one it was — nobody challenged me, to the best of my recollection. So I shall retire victorious, in the sure and certain glow of being correct.
Morzer
@NotMax:
Neigh, neigh, a thousand times neigh. Because, as we all know…
Neighbors, everybody needs good neighbors
With a little understanding…
Morzer
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/kobach-sanctioned-deceptive
Tasty, I sez to myself. Tasty.
efgoldman
@Ben from Virginia:
The barber shop i go to, and one of my doctor’s offices, still get the print edition of Time. That’s the only time I read them.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mnemosyne:
They are yuuuuuge.
efgoldman
@Morzer:
I don’t remember the details, but t’ain’t the first time, either, for that fraud, is it?
Ben from Virginia
@efgoldman:
My dentist has them in the waiting room, but I’d rather be on my phone than read six-month old editions of TIME.
It’s astounding that the print newsweeklies haven’t yet gone the way of Blockbuster.
NotMax
Was hoping for a Friday foodie thread, but looks like that’s not to be.
Regardless, stumbled across this concoction (hesitate to give it the respect of using the word recipe) while poking around the ‘net. Coin toss as to which is more unfortunate, the name or the dish.
Sufficient to have one excommunicated from church potluck suppers.
amk
Has the wwc become millynayres yet?
Mnemosyne
@amk:
Speaking of grammar, on first read it looked like you were calling ABC a dumbass, and I didn’t think it would go well for you.
Morzer
@NotMax:
It does seem kinda obnixious.
NotMax
@Morzer
Only in Fillydelphia.
Morzer
@NotMax:
It could lead even a hardened agnewstic into a death spiro.
amk
@Mnemosyne: my grammar good.
Mnemosyne
@NotMax:
The Kraft website was trying to give me grocery deals in Winnetka, IL, which sounds about right for that salad.
(Full disclosure — I went to Catholic school in Hubbard Woods for a brief time.)
Mike J
@Mnemosyne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfFBdViZHzk
Lyrebird
@NotMax: Oh my oh my!
The title,
the ingredients,
the instructions!!!
I guess the instructions are only funny because there’s some pleased commenter boasting about how [s]he has made this so many times she doesn’t even need to look at the recipe any more…
Am also a little sad, bc the person I know who would like this the most, a friend’s mom, passed away — partly thanks to her unwillingness to follow dietary recommendations from her doctor.
Am also selfishly happy or at least relieved that we are now moving away from a marshmallows-in-salad region to a lettuce-in-salad region of the country.
Mike J
@Mike J: Sorry, meant to have one with lyrics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzwoc7UWdBw
Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
Fake whipped cream? Marshmallows? Instant pudding? Yeuch.
Lyrebird
@Amir Khalid: Hiya, not sure if you saw my late reply in an earlier thread – I got to eat some WONDERFUL food and look at the sun set near your country though probably not your hometown. Restaurant at a marina on the Sing. side, near Tuas. Amazing.
Thought of you and waved in your vague direction! Salaam Aleikum and all that!
Mnemosyne
@Mike J:
Okay, that makes more sense. I’m not surprised that someone named Crosby would be singing about Winnetka — it’s been Irish Catholic for a long time. The Murray family (as in Bill and Brian Doyle) is from there.
Felonius Monk
Probably already noted but Mr+Mrs Wilmer have lawyered up because bank fraud.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Lyrebird: Amir’s in the big city, KL.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: They’re from Reseda?
Mnemosyne
Also speaking of Winnetka — one of the ways that people on the North Shore know that Rick Santorum is dumb is that his family sent him to Carmel High School in Mundelein instead of Loyola Academy in Winnetka. If it was the 1950s-1980s and your Catholic boy was smart, you sent him to Loyola even if it was a long commute. If he wasn’t that bright, you sent him to whatever was nearby — in the Santorums’ case, that was Carmel.
(There wasn’t a Catholic girls’ school that had the same reputation for academics because sexism.)
Mnemosyne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
It seems like half the towns in the Valley are named after
towns on the North ShoreChicago’s suburbs: Winnetka, Oak Park, Highland Park.ETA: Had to correct myself before Oak Park native SD yelled at me. ?
Lyrebird
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Thanks, I figured as much…
FWIW if you haven’t tried Malaysian or Indonesian food, do! It’s amazing and should never be compared with disturbing chemical concoctions like that Cool Whip “salad”. Didn’t know they still made Cool Whip.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne:
Now I’m just thinking about ‘Catholic high school girls in trouble’.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
If it’s not prying, any news on the finger front?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Lyrebird: I dated a Malay for several years while in grad school.
NotMax
@BillinGlendaleCA
“It all started with a pair of patent leather shoes and went steadily downhill from there….”
Mike J
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Billy Joel sang that the Catholic girls start much too late, but that was not my experience. Perhaps it was because they could be talked into things with the sort of lines Billy Joel came up with.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mike J:
@NotMax: Haven’t y’all seen ‘Kentucky Fried Movie’?
NotMax
@BillinGlendaleCA
Many, many, many moons ago. Have only the vaguest recollection of it.
Villago Delenda Est
The person who’s not telling the truth?
His initials are Fuckface von Clownstick.
Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
Oddly shaped but still attached to me, as I mentioned in another thread. I’m hoping it won’t affect my ability to learn the ee-leck-trickle gittar, which I hope to take up soon.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
Lived on the same property (different houses) for a couple of years with a guy who at one time played guitar with Hank Williams. Missing two fingers on one hand and could still make a guitar purr.
mai naem mobile
Does anybody else see ads on their phone based on phone conversations or background noise(car radio/tv) they’ve had? Not texts. Not google searhes. Not online browsing. My sister said this was happening to her and I think it is to me. It’s kind of creepy.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
And the use of ‘ee-leck-trickle’ requires a link to Donovan.
Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
Did he play with Hank himself, Hank Jr, or Hank III?
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
With the first Hank. He and his family rented a small house on the property that was built in 1790 (the ‘new house’).
Steeplejack (phone)
@NotMax:
Which hand? It makes a difference.
Major Major Major Major
@mai naem mobile: most likely it’s pattern recognition on overdrive (cf some version of the Barnum effect) combined with the fact that ads on media you’re around are tied to time and location, much like your phone is. And the fact that you probably only actually talk about a few things, as do we all.
ETA: former life as white-hat personal phone data data miner.
Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
My favourite Donovan song.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Now you’re taxing the memory, as this was around 1977. Gonna say right hand but could be mistaken. Seem to also remember he lost the fingers sometime after leaving the touring band.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mnemosyne:
I wouldn’t yell at you. I should merely remind you, ever so gently, that Oak Park is due west of the Loop.
Anyhow, aren’t you married to an Oak Park native? Can’t he yell at you?
Elizabelle
David Anderson, our very own bjdick, gets another shout out from Pulitzer-Prize winning LA Times business columnist, Michael Hiltzik. The Senate GOP hid the meanest things very deeply in its Obamacare repeal bill. We found them
Hiltzik’s points (and please read the column; he explains very well; well enough that you could paraphrase to your rebel yell brother in law).
Elizabelle
@SiubhanDuinne: Hello there. You are up late.
Have already had my coffee, and gonna head to the beach for the morning, before it gets too sunny and hot.
Major Major Major Major
@Elizabelle: good for him! And to a minor degree us!
SiubhanDuinne
@Elizabelle:
Insomnia, alas. Am going to try sleep again in a minute.
Have fun at the Balearic beach!
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Insomnia is the oldsters’ BFF.
A little something to perhaps help lull you into relaxation.
SiubhanDuinne
@Elizabelle:
Congratulations to David! And those points will also be useful for next week’s phone calls to Senators’ offices.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
That was nice. Thank you.
mai naem mobile
@Major Major Major Major: well, that makes me feel better. It was my sister who noticed it not me. I noticed it way after and I didn’t know if it was my imagination.
Major Major Major Major
@mai naem mobile: It should still alarm you that the algorithms can tell what you’re likely to be talking about without eavesdropping.
Elizabelle
I left out a major point by Hiltzik: there should be a total of 6 bullet points. Left out “opioid addiction” treatment.
His language:
To your phones, Buckeyes and Mountaineers.
It’s a great article. Everyone should read it.
Elizabelle
Being a micromanager sometimes [ :-(] ] here are Hiltzik’s SIX bullet points, correcting my comment #72:
?BillinGlendaleCA
This is what I was trying to photograph last night, but instead spent half a hour trying to find a parking space.
Major Major Major Major
@?BillinGlendaleCA: this strikes me as a very SoCal story.
Spanky
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I thought you were off in search of the elusive Milky Way.
(Also up with insomnia, although the weekday alarm would be going off in 8 minutes.)
Spanky
@Elizabelle: I so envy your Barcelona lifestyle. How’s your Spanish coming along?
Ruckus
@Lyrebird:
Why wouldn’t they? There’s still plenty of industrial waste available.
opiejeanne
@Mike J: I always thought Big Noise from Winnetka was named after the street in Los Angeles. Huh.
JR in WV
IN somnia!
Wife woke me up by shouting from her dream. I was dreaming that we were asleep on the floor in a Parisian cathedral, surrounded by nuns singing on the late night shift.
Then suddenly we were sleeping on the Paris street, still comfy, but I was being weirded out by passersby. Plus there was a Chinese restaurant across the street with strange neon signs about the animals they were prepared to stir-fry for your noshing entertainment.
If her dream was worse than mine . . . Anyways glad to be awake for a few minutes.
It rained really hard here early in the evening, killed our network connection deader than dead, so read a paper book.
Next time we go to Paris, there will be a nice hotel room, no floor of cathedral, no sidewalk, delux room with hot and cold running room service!!!
opiejeanne
@Mnemosyne: My grandparents moved to Hollywood from Downers Grove, Ill around 1920. There used to be a big annual picnic in one of the parks in LA for people from Downers Grove. I have a photo from one of the local newspapers, probably the Tribune.
Annual Downers Grove Picnic
This was shot August 4, 1923. My father and his brother and a cousin are sitting with the children in front, my grandmother and my great grandparents are standing with the adults. My grandfather was behind the camera.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Spanky: That’s on tap for tonight.
Elizabelle
@Spanky: Great question. Spanish is and isn’t coming. I can read it more easily, but still shy about speaking it much. Quite slow, brain to tongue, in middle age.** That would change with practice, agreed.
Highly recommend the USO gramatica books, available at Amazon. I’m 80% through the “elementary” set of exercises, and I find it much better designed than any previous workbook. Enough repetition to actually learn the grammar. It’s fun to write out the lessons; a puzzle. Even the instructions are in Spanish. Going to work through the intermediate version when I get back to the States.
I took Spanish language classes last summer; those and the USO book are a great refresher. Not worrying too much about missing my opportunities to speak Spanish here, because we have oodles of Spanish speakers in the US, and television where I can practice my listening skills. (No TV in this apartment — yet another glory. Just fast internet here, and I don’t watch netflix, etc. — too much fun being out and about.) It’s actually kind of soothing, hearing discussions out in the street (5 floors below) and they’re just background noise because I don’t hear the content.
Missed my morning opportunity for the beach (Badalona, beach about 25 minutes above Barcelona on the coast; easy Metro ride); so gonna go later this afternoon. The sun here will burn you. Also gives me opportunity to buy a beach umbrella at one of the Chinese shops here (don’t open until mid-morning). Jonesing for a swim in that gorgeous green sea.
Check out Norwegian Air. They have marvelous fares to Barcelona and other European cities. You should come check this city out!
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** It’s much harder to learn a language in middle age, at least IMHO. I have new respect for the immigrants who must learn a new language, sometimes at an advanced age. Also, one’s comprehension and ability to speak are often not matched. Have to bear that in mind.
Iowa Old Lady
@Kay: Grassley and Ernst are not delightful correspondents either.
kd bart
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Yes!!! “Catholic High School Girls in Trouble”
Betty
@Morzer: @SiubhanDuinne: Isn’t that a Catholic school joke? Seems that’s what I have heard.
weaselone
@Elizabelle:
I’m fairly certain that Senator Casey tweeted out most, if not all of these points well before this article was written complete with the relevant sections circled.
Apocalipstick
Anyone else think Mueller looks like Luke Wilson?
gammyjill
@Mnemosyne: I live in Highland Park, but had a store for years on Green Bay Road in Hubbard Woods. Very near the school you’re referring to. I used to love to see the kids play in the Hubbard Woods park. I think maybe they took gym class in the park. By the way, the park has really become upscale; new buildings and equipment and greenery.